Just Read Twilight

I just read the book “Twilight”, finished it in the middle of the night, actually. I’ve had the books, all of the books currently in the series that are out, for quite some time, and just hadn’t picked them up to read. I actually have the movie on Blu-Ray, and haven’t watched it yet.

What started it for me was looking for books on audible.com I found the first book, Twilight and liked how it was described and the audio sample was interesting enough, so I purchased it. I was listening to it when I had my older phone, the Palm Treo 755p, using Audible Air, but never finished it, deciding I loved it as an audio book but wanted to read it first, then listen to it again, finishing it that way.

Since June 6 I’ve had a Palm Pre instead of my Palm Treo, and the Pre isn’t capable of using Audible Air, I have been hooked on using that program and can’t stand the thought of having to use another device and be married to loading from a computer hook-up or listening via my computer … ugh.

For some reason I haven’t figured out, I just never picked up the book to start the reading of Twilight until just the other day. It was nice to read it, even though I listened to the audio book about 3/4 of the way through before, and found it very read-able and getting to the ‘new to me’ part was great.

I know it’s categorized as a Young Adult book. I tend to enjoy many books in that category, and also feel the need to read some of them before allowing my children to possibly read them. Like this series, I haven’t let them yet read The Golden Compass, etc. or Maximum Ride … books I really like, but feel they aren’t “old enough” to appreciate what needs to be considered while reading them. I guess I’m mostly taking this from a perspective of Young Adult being something that has an older young adult and a younger young adult categorization-able-ness. (My children being homeschooled and shielded from some things that many children may not be.)

I know, for instance, I would have loved to read something like Twilight when I was 11, but I won’t even let my 13 year old son consider reading it. I see 16 to 18 more-so a better age for that. My daughter is 10, nearly 11, she also I would prefer to wait to read these types of books. I was in public school and knew things at 7 years of age that my children, three of who are older than that, have no clue about. Thankfully. There is time enough for many ideas to be understood, maturity can bring much information to it. It doesn’t need to be given out throughout childhood. Like any subject, don’t teach it until the child is ready to really receive it, forcing math concepts on a child, for instance, when they don’t get it and pressuring them when they aren’t ready, when waiting for signs of maturity in that receptive area would bring about an ease in understanding and receiving said information. So it goes in everything, allowing what is right for each child as they grow, when they are ready, and books are highly subjective. My idea about the ones above I mentioned are that they have some good themes to talk about, but shouldn’t go into a child’s mind until some level of maturity is evident, and if it means they don’t read them until they are adults, there is no harm. Better no harm than harm. Amen.

So then, I really do like many sorts of literature, and haven’t read a lot of vampire stuff, though I have held a fascination with the subject matter since I was small. I am not widely read in any area, just a smattering of this and that, but I can say I find the Twilight vampires to be very interesting, even though some people online think it totally out-of-line that they sparkle in sunlight, and aren’t burnt up, like other vampire stories make them out to be like. :Rolleyes: