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Stephenie Meyer ended up writing four books and hundreds of pages to complete the story of her characters Bella and Edward. In reading and thinking about her Twilight Saga, I ended up writing hundreds of words to explain what I thought! Therefore, I have split it into three posts: Twilight: My Review The Twilight Saga: What do [...] Twilight, written for the “young adult” audience, is the story of an intense love between two high-schoolers, Bella and Edward. Edward just happens to be a vampire. The Twilight saga is a best-selling phenomenon but I had not been inspired to read the books, despite friend’s recommendations, because the vampire aspect put me off. Then, [...] A quick flip through reviews on Amazon shows that not everyone is enamoured with The Twilight Saga. There are of course flaws – every reader reacts to a book in a different way so what book can be perfect? The issue with Twilight is whether the weaknesses distract you. One Amazon reviewer wrote “…at times [...] Scoring at Book Club has become complicated. We give one mark out of 10 and now that we have past scores to compare with, are sometimes struggling. What are the criteria? Is it appropriate to score a Stephenie Meyer over a DH Lawrence, a respected writer whose books have been used as exam texts for [...] Lady Chatterley’s Lover is one of those books everyone has an opinion about, even if, maybe especially if, they haven’t read it. For that reason, I suggested it for our Book Club. It’s one of those books I read as a teenager, thinking that I “should” be reading it but actually getting nothing from it. Now [...] For women who like to write I can recommend a listen to today’s edition of BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour on BBC iPlayer (available for a week). http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00n7gj8/Womans_Hour_22_10_2009/ It was focused around Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, discussing what it was like to be a woman writer then, and now. It ended with reflections on [...] Thank you for the great response to my question What are you Reading. I’ve been really enjoying all the book conversations. Following on from my comment to Katherine about the Paul Auster book and a conversation I had with a friend last night, I have a new question: Are there any books on your shelf that [...] I’ve borrowed this idea from my friend Alastair, who in turn borrowed it from another blogger. I love books and always find it fascinating to hear what other people are reading. Therefore, the idea of this post is to get as many people as possible to share: 1. What they have just read2. What they are [...] |
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