15 posts tagged “breaking dawn”
Ah, I just finished reading the leaked chapters of Midnight Sun, which I will share. At first I was suspicious because I thought the feel was off but that soon passed. Then I was wondering about the length as S. Meyer has said she was half way through and it was over 300 pages, but then I realized this would equate to that in book format. I soon found myself engrossed and I have to say that it is a much more compelling read than Twilight. I will even add that it is more steeped in yearning and desire than Bella's point of view. More sexual. And I've only read the first 12 chapters. The manuscript is lousy with errored paging though, pages 16 and 25 come after 51 and others are inverted. One page is sideways and that will be interesting for some one on a PC to read. I want the rest now. I very much hope that this isn't a clever fake, I'm leaning hard on it being legit. Edward's perspective is just enthralling. The rest of the books need to be done, regardless of what Stephenie Meyer has to say about that.
I came across the pdf. and the audiobook of Breaking Dawn recently and took the time to upload them. The audiobook is broken up into our parts, I, II, III and IV. I still maintain that the book wasn't bad despite the ending. I think I am likely to listen to the audiobooks sometime. And I still have plans to reread all 4 books sometime and look for the clues that S. Meyer talked about being there that tell you the events of Breaking Dawn. Now I just have to find the audiobook for The Host.
I have listened to the newest Stills CD and I pretty much love it. I think that I must have listened to it about 5 times on loop when I first got it. I have uploaded that too and you can grab it here. It is a lot more of a throw back to Logic Will Break Your Heart. I think the last album tanked and they realized that people liked them for their initial sound. A few songs stand out on this one; Being Here, Everything I Build, Hands on Fire, I'm With You and Statue of Sirens--But really the whole thing is c cohesive work and it all stands out. I do have to say that as a longtime fan I miss the feathers. The skull seems a bit morbid and harsh. I am planning to see them play in October. They will be touring with Kings of Leon and the tickets were fucking expensive, 120.00 for both of us. Much different than the 15 bucks we paid last time they were out here. And I don't even plan to stay for Kings of Leon... I know they had a marketable song a few years ago but I don't really recall what it was. I miss club shows.
Going back to Twiligt-verse related things... this photo of Rachelle LeFevre as Victoria was leaked last week and I love it. The woman is totally gorgeous and I might totally be in love with her. I do have to say that I wasn't half as interested in Victoria in the book as I am as her character in the movie. I read an interview with her and Robert Pattinson last week and I can't remember who it was with but she was so well spoken and even Rob commented about it she credits it to her dad being a professor and her mom is something impressive too. There was a bit of joke from that when Rob came back with his dad made German techno music. I guess it was funnier in the context of the interview rather than my playback. I'll go back to drooling over Rachelle. I totally want her for my girlfriend.
I've been slogging away at my goal to read all the Harlequin Blaze books. I read 7 in a three day period this week before slowing down to a less machine like pace. D made me a little database to keep track of the books I have, need and what I've read. All this because I was BookMooching books that I already had or had read. I have 72 unread books at the moment. I have more that I've ordered that haven't arrived yet. And to be honest most of them aren't stories that I'm that impressed with or that I will think to ever read again, although there have been a couple. One was Sarah Mayberry's Take on Me. I totally loved it and it even warmed me some to Mayberry who I wasn't impressed with in the past. I am reading one by her now called Below the Belt. I'm hoping it will be as good as Take on Me. I have about 350 books to read to read all the Blaze books. It's quite the undertaking. I don't have a set date to read them by so it can be a marathon rather than a sprint. I still have other books to read too.
Today I'm spending time with Logan again. We are going to the Mission of San Gabriel, which will be fun for me and who knows if anyone else will actually like it. I am already late in getting ready. I don't regret it Midnight Sun was worth the upheaval this morning.
Oh and Death Race is a completely senseless movie, just like it looks, but D is happy he got to see Jason Statham. My boy has a big man-crush on him. Ian McShane was no Swearengen sadly.
Yesterday I found the audiobooks and pdf for Breaking Dawn. If anyone sees this and wants me to upload them let me know and I will. I am not ashamed of my pirate-y ways and think audiobooks cost way too much for something so cheap to make. By the same notion, anyone know where I could score the Gemma Doyle Trilogy on audiobook I would greatly appreciate it. I do miss me some Kartik. And I loaned my first two books out and can't reread them.
My plans for the weekend include seeing a movie with Connie and whomever else is coming. I think I plan to do nothing but read over the weekend. I have 80 Harlequin Blaze books, Vampire Kisses, Vampire Diaries, Tithe, more Sookie Stackhouse books. I could happily read and do nothing else and have no problems with it. We will see.
Yesterday I got to see a friend of mine, who I haven't seen in 8 years. We had to drive down to Orange to see him though and the 5 is always so trying but we spent the day in Huntington Beach so it was a nice day. We got to talk a little about old times and what he's been doing since. We also talked him into signing up for Twitter. I can never have enough Twitter friends. We took a picture off the pier and I look like shit but hey what can I do. I sort of look like my Grandmother... and that is a little eerie to me.
I Finally finished Acheron. It felt like I read it for weeks rather than days. It was pretty good once you get passed the violence, humiliation and degradation of the first 400 pages the present day story was really nice. I loved that you got to see a humorous Jaden, an advice giving Urian and an ensemble showing of ex-Dark-Hunters. Wren has a showing and Ravyn got a mention. Vane and Fang were both there but no Fury. I think I loved Valerius' small part. Tabby is in a condition that made me way happy. Styxx is finally something other than annoying. And I think the heroine is obvious if you have read all your books. Although I have to admit waiting for her to show up was very hard and the notion to skip
On Friday night I went to see Sherrilyn Kenyon at Dark Delicacies in Burbank and to get my Acheron book signed. It was a really small place and there was no Q&A. It was just the signing... but over 120 people showed and there was a line out on the street that went down the block. I was really impressed by the turn out. Sherri is just the sweetest woman, she really loves her fans and it is apparent in the time she takes with each one. She is always touching your hand and hugging you and thanking you for just being there. It's really nice on the heels of Stephenie Meyer to meet someone who appreciates you as a fan. God knows why Stephenie Meyer even bothers she is so unpleasant when you get to her. Anyway, Sherri was great and I mentioned how hard it was to read the beginning of Acheron and she was like, "...but now you understand him and why he does the things he does and why he is the way he is." Which you really do but this sweet, kind woman thinking up these tortures and trials is beyond my ken. She's too nice to be so evil.
/end rant.
The other day at the release party for Breaking Dawn I bought a bunch of books that I clearly don't need... A couple Sarah Dessen books, The Vampire Diaries and Vampire Kisses. Does anyone see an overall theme to this post? Do I read books other than vampire books? I definitely do, it just really doesn't seem so lately. HAHA and thinking about it right now, I bought two more Sookie Stackhouse books tonight too. I am not a weird vampire lover. I feel really weird about all these books now but anyway. I haven't started on any of them yet because I also have a kajillion Harlequin Blaze books to read and they go into the bathtub better than bigger books. Very few of them are about vampires. 2 that I have read so far, but the majority is not. So take that my growing reputation as a lover of the bump in the night. *sigh* That sounds dirty now. I feel like I'm giving the wrong impression all over the place.
Decompressing turned to avoidance and now I have 3 days worth of things to write about and that is just daunting.
I have to start with Sunday when we went to the San Diego Zoo. We got a really early start too, we got there around 10AM and it was really nice to be there without the crowds. Though they showed up as the day wore on. I have to say the highlight of the day for me was the mating orangutans. I was fascinated but those around me were really a.) freaked out or b.) appalled. Me, I was all crazy apes. For other reasons than the call of nature, I do love me the orangutans and I got to spend some time just watching them. They are my favorites by far. I usually want to go check out the chimps too but the SD Zoo doesn't have any. I know that is blasphemy but it is the true. I also was rather into the polar bears. I think they were tons of fun. The male was just huge and he was making love to frond and that didn't freak that many people out. Oh and the baby meerkats. They rocked the house. The young hippo who was smushed up against the glass was rad. The cats are always favs. I'm distressed by the animals that pace. I empathize with them and imagine that they would be worlds happier in the wild. Of course that will get me on a jag about how some of these animals don't have a habitat anymore and that leads to an unhappy place so I will desist and post a caboodle of pictures.
On the way home I started reading Charlaine Harris's Dead Until Dark and I finished it very quickly. I like Bill Compton
Speaking of The Cullens, Breaking Dawn comes out on Saturday and D, Belle and I are heading to a release party in Corona. I am excited to read the 4th book, but really scared. I will be fine once I've read it but getting through it will be hard. I want too much from this book. Too much and there is no way it will live up to my expectations. *sigh*
The last few weeks I have indulged in a ridiculous amount of bookmooching and I requested something like 70 books. All popcorn books and they are arriving these days in quantities in which I can't possibly store. Nine new titles arrived today and I have the Harris books to read and I still haven't read Tithe or City of Bones or Coraline for that matter. I've been out of control. I need to learn to curb that impulse until I've read about 60 or so books. It will tide me over for the month atleast. I should give myself a goal of getting back to 120 points and then not letting myself go below 100. Self control, I need some.
As for Twilight happenings, it is Twilight Tuesday, there are a ton of tabs open on my computer. Yahoo has an article about Comic Con. I may have posted this earlier but hey. Jo Blo had they best retelling of what it was like
So after having a fabulous week, I crashed and spent two horrible days in bed. I even slept until 5:30 yesterday afternoon. So I took the new meds last night to make sure I'd sleep and I woke up today with joint aches like I'm crippled or something. Again, horrible. Not even Dr. Horrible, just regular horrible. I feel so off and I really hate it and I kind of hate myself for feeling it. I really wish that being bipolar didn't mean that the ups and downs were so guaranteed. I'd really like to just feel the elevation. The depressed cycle is not even a little fun. Lying all day in bed feels a whole lot like lying in a coffin. I don't want my life to be over yet. So, yeah--tons to share in therapy tomorrow. If I'm not so incapacitated that I can't go.
The other day I went to work with David he works in Santa Monica in the MTV Networks location and around the corner from it is Summit Entertainment. The fangirl in me was all it excited. I had to go by it. I had the typical fangirl delusion that I would see Rob Pattinson in front of the building standing around just waiting to meet an overzealous fan. Yeah, that did not happen. I know your surprised that my very unlikely fantasy didn't pan out. That kind of thing happens to obsessed fangirls every day. It will be enough that I will see him at Comic Con. It will have to be enough since I just don't have the kind of life that would put me in his path. How much of a chance do I have when I'm depressed and in bed?
As for books. I have been devouring Harlequin Blaze books. I have about twenty of them that I ordered from
Today was Twilight Tuesday and Larry Carroll delivered some behind the scenes stuff. The first blog is about the Cullen Family Crest. The other is interviews and clips regarding the direction away from the book. Catherine Hardwicke talks about how the film can show in seconds something that might take the book 25 pages to say. The one clip is behind the scenes at the field trip to the green house and how Bella is trying to get Edward to tell her how he stopped Tyler's van. I have a little wibble with the delivery of Edward's line about it being adrenaline and how it's not uncommon, that she should look it up on Google. It just bothers me. I don't know if it's Rob there or the line itself. I do like the idea that they have this talk somewhere other than the hospital. I think that is what I think, for right now atleast. Who knows I'm fickle maybe it will bother me more later.
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Tonight I think David and I are going to watch Enchanted. Last summer was hard with me always being in the hospital so I didn't get to see it then. It's weird not having hockey to watch anymore. I miss Vesa. I guess this just gives me more time to read.
I used to be more clever than I am these days. I used to write very interesting entries and these days I am living through my interests. This post won't be different. I just have to marvel at my former wit and wonder where it all went. It's like I've had a lobotomy. I was more fun before. I had edges. *sigh*
Today was Twilight Tuesday and Stephenie Meyer announced that she would be doing the Breaking Dawn Tour in conjunction with Justin Furstenfeld of Blue October. She will be in LA at UCLA's Royce Hall, 7 August. I am just one who doesn't learn, I wasn't so blown away with the last signing and yet I am bound and determined to go to this one. And it's more expensive too. She's really not worth it but I am compelled to go. It's like I'm a domestic violence victim and I keep going back.
I had hoped that we would get more about Twilight the movie on Twilight Tuesday. I really don't think Breaking Dawn touring dates count. I don't think I can be convinced that that was worth my full attention. You could give me Taylor Lautner and it would be better. Oh hell, I'm rarely happy on Twilight Tuesday. I like them beefy with Rob and Kristen. I have yet to have one that gave me a Kellan fix. That would be awesome. There are many Tuesdays between now and 12 Decemeber though. There is still hope. C'mon MTV, give me a Kellan Tuesday.
Last night D got me to watch some season 1 Veronica Mars. Jason Dohring is so perfect as Logan Echolls. We watched the Pilot and Credit Where Credit's Due and it was as good as I remember. We found a map with all the locations on it and there are a few that we have never seen. Maybe if we are down there in SD for Comic Con we can scope out some of the new places. New to me. I guess the fangirl in me is still die-hard. Atleast I'm not staying up all night reading Logan fanfic and stalking Jason Dohring. Although that experience made me really deluded about how celebrities react to fans. He was way too nice to us. It is too bad Moonlight got cancelled. I'm sure he'd have been at Comic Con otherwise. Okay I'm scaring myseld with where this line of thinking is going. I can only fixate on one celebrity at a time and I have to choose Rob for the time being. I say that after mooning over Kellan.
Books... they don't usually petition for restraining orders. I finished This Lullaby last night and I really liked it. I did have some minor issues with it like the time frame, it felt like things were a little rushed and that the time period given wasn't enough for the events that take place. Of course I was put out by the main character, it's not a book if I don't like the main character. The girls always drive me crazy and Remy Starr was no different. She's inflexible and pigheaded and a little too know-it-all for me. Dexter, the love interest, on the contrary, is quirky, bumbling and adorable. I don't think there was a line by his character that I didn't like. He's easily relatable and his faults aren't annoying to anyone other than Remy. I really found the pacing good up until nearing the end when there are long periods of Remy with everyone but Dexter and this was tedious. The pay off was a drop in the bucket when I wanted a deluge. It felt a bit like an afterthought. But in the end for all my complaints I did like it. It was a quick read and I really want to read Dessen's new book now. I also BookMooched How to Deal which is Someone Like you and That Summer together. I hope to read a lot more Dessen. I approve.
So after I finshed This Lullaby I started Fragile Things and so far I'm barely into it and already remembering that I hate Neil Gaiman's short stories. I just never like these compilations. I am going to try to read to page 50 and see if I don't enjoy it more but as of now I am really in hell. I like Neil Gaiman, I really do. His short stories always bore me though. I don't find them a draw like I did with Neverwhere, Good Omens, Stardust or American Gods. A part of me just thinks that there is a good reason why none of these are full books. These are the cast offs that he couldn't make work. Someone is going to be a huge Gaiman fan and feel really insulted by that, but it's how I feel and I won't apologize for not liking crappy stories. When I get a Gaiman craving I would be better off reading something I've already read than to read Smoke and Mirrors or Fragile Things.
Before I read Wicked Lovely I was rereading The Host again and I loved it as much on the second read as I did on the first. I read all the signing questions on Twilight Lexicon and I am really excited about the prospect that this could be a trilogy. I really am hoping that it is. I know Stephenie Meyer is taking next year off to write and I hope she gets the urge to revisit Wanderer.
Today, well yesterday I guess, was Twilight Tuesday and I actually wasn't disappointed in the article this week. I thought it was a nice little grab bag of some really dorky questions. I especially loved the RPattz one. I think I could call the guy Spunk Ransom. Although D thinks it sounds like a porn star name. I think we are going to go to the red carpet for the MTV awards on Sunday. It should be interesting to see what can be seen. I hope that we do see Rob there. Kristen I could take or leave. I was talking to D and I can't even really name that many good movies from the last year. Stardust should win something though. Just so Ben Barnes could maybe get some love. I realize Charlie Cox is the star but Ben is cuter.
