Don’t Be A Bella

Now This Is Some Twilight I Can Get Into

The truth is I was curious. I wanted to know what all the fuss was about. I wanted to answer the question once and for all: Team Edward or Team Jacob? I watched the Twilight movies. And I’ve been finding little pieces of glitter all over the place ever since. Edward may be stalking me, [...]

Vampires Suck. Heartbreak Does, Too.

twilight

I didn’t begin reading the Twilight series until just before the first movie was released. As an English teacher, I’d already spent a couple of years watching my 8th graders lug around the heavy novels. The girls were always nose-deep in the glossy, black bricks made of pages. Occasionally, I’d catch one of them have [...]

One Plus Is Zombies Never Have Celine Dion At Their Wedding

Twilight - Boys that sparkle

Back when Twilight-mania reached a fever pitch I was all for the sparkly boys! (In the by-chance you’ve lived under a rock and never heard of Twilight: Vampire meets Girl, they fall in love, Vampire doesn’t eat Girl, there’s no bacon involved.)(It’s also a series written for teens.)(There’s no S.E.X.)(At all) Along with the Twilight [...]

In Which I Make All Twilight Lovers Burn Me In Effigy

I was twelve and walking through a bookstore.  Prominently displayed on one of the racks, dark red Gothic lettering cast its glamor on me.  Interview With A Vampire, I was literally drawn to it and spent two weeks worth of allowance on it in a matter of minutes.  The raised eyebrow of the woman who [...]