The Twilight Saga

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 [...]

The Twilight Saga: What do you think?

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 Twilight: What is a Good Book?

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 [...]

A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf

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 [...]