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I can't believe it. I'm reading Stephenie Meyer's Twilight. And enjoying it! Argh.
I first read about it in the fabulous magazine about and for women writing, mslexia. And then everyone's teenage daughter seemed to be wolfing it down.
Plus me.
Who am not a teenage daughter.
But clearly am (inside).
This novel is about a high school girl on the West coast of the United States of America, somewhere in the foggy north, who falls in love with a mysterious pale and beautiful boy who ( spoilers her rotten )
A number of fascinating things about this super-blockbust-bestselling novel.
• It is aimed at the young adult girlie market. This reminds me of Harry Potter, another super-blockbust-novel that was aimed at young readers. It focuses entirely on this market's obsessions and daydreams.
• It combines a prosaic high school setting with elements of the supernatural. This reminds me of Harry Potter, another super-blockbust-novel wot i know. HP, too, combines a prosaic high school setting (trivial bitchiness, everyday worries about homework) with elements of the supernatural. Do I detect a theme here? Is this what prospective readers part with their money for?
• It has the second-biggest Mary Sue in it that I know. The first-biggest Mary Sue is, um, Harry Potter, that other well-known super-blockblahblah. Get this: the girl in this novel (who writes in the first person singular) makes every single boy in her new high school fall over with lust; has boys throwing themselves at her and asking her for dates left, right and centre, dates that she (note the mark of the truly heroic Mary Sue) refuses one by one, while eyerolling; she is clever and effortlessly solves tasks at school. But now, for the ecstatic heights of Mary Sue delirium: she is not conscious of her power over boys. She thinks of herself as a lowly, ordinary girl although she keeps being told by these various boys and by the most beautiful boy in the world who likes nobody else, that she is incredibly special and extraordinary and amazing. But she remains so modest!! She denies it all!!! Yet these boys keep saying it!!!!
The Mary-Sue-genius of this blockbustblah takes my breath away. Hats off, Ms Meyer.
• There are some very evocative landscape and weather descriptions. The prose is straightforward and unpretentious and occasionally grammatically incorrect. The speech words employed only occasionally resort to 'he said', 'I said'; instead, the following are favoured: 'I verified', 'he explained', 'I instructed', 'he clarified', and so forth. This reminds me of some fanfic wot i have read in my life.
• It totally speaks to the inner teengirl in me. When I was fourteen, all there was to read was Fifteen by Beverly Cleary.
( In other news, here is a frock wot i lurv. *fangirls* )
Green shoes and gloves with yellow. Sensational. I am so copying that colour combo.
I first read about it in the fabulous magazine about and for women writing, mslexia. And then everyone's teenage daughter seemed to be wolfing it down.
Plus me.
Who am not a teenage daughter.
But clearly am (inside).
This novel is about a high school girl on the West coast of the United States of America, somewhere in the foggy north, who falls in love with a mysterious pale and beautiful boy who ( spoilers her rotten )
A number of fascinating things about this super-blockbust-bestselling novel.
• It is aimed at the young adult girlie market. This reminds me of Harry Potter, another super-blockbust-novel that was aimed at young readers. It focuses entirely on this market's obsessions and daydreams.
• It combines a prosaic high school setting with elements of the supernatural. This reminds me of Harry Potter, another super-blockbust-novel wot i know. HP, too, combines a prosaic high school setting (trivial bitchiness, everyday worries about homework) with elements of the supernatural. Do I detect a theme here? Is this what prospective readers part with their money for?
• It has the second-biggest Mary Sue in it that I know. The first-biggest Mary Sue is, um, Harry Potter, that other well-known super-blockblahblah. Get this: the girl in this novel (who writes in the first person singular) makes every single boy in her new high school fall over with lust; has boys throwing themselves at her and asking her for dates left, right and centre, dates that she (note the mark of the truly heroic Mary Sue) refuses one by one, while eyerolling; she is clever and effortlessly solves tasks at school. But now, for the ecstatic heights of Mary Sue delirium: she is not conscious of her power over boys. She thinks of herself as a lowly, ordinary girl although she keeps being told by these various boys and by the most beautiful boy in the world who likes nobody else, that she is incredibly special and extraordinary and amazing. But she remains so modest!! She denies it all!!! Yet these boys keep saying it!!!!
The Mary-Sue-genius of this blockbustblah takes my breath away. Hats off, Ms Meyer.
• There are some very evocative landscape and weather descriptions. The prose is straightforward and unpretentious and occasionally grammatically incorrect. The speech words employed only occasionally resort to 'he said', 'I said'; instead, the following are favoured: 'I verified', 'he explained', 'I instructed', 'he clarified', and so forth. This reminds me of some fanfic wot i have read in my life.
• It totally speaks to the inner teengirl in me. When I was fourteen, all there was to read was Fifteen by Beverly Cleary.
( In other news, here is a frock wot i lurv. *fangirls* )
Green shoes and gloves with yellow. Sensational. I am so copying that colour combo.