All is well with the emo, Bright Eyes-bleeding couple Bella and Edward when Eclipse, the third book of Stephenie Meyer’s uber-sensitivo contemporary goth novel opens. This one is more of a bosom clutching, fainting spells…
Posts tagged Stephenie Meyer
Twilight The Graphic Novel, Vol. 1
Stephenie Meyer is going to become the Madonna of authors if she doesn’t watch it. The Twilight Saga books made her a millionaire. The movies are making a mint and giving millions of women, young…
And other Matthew McConaughey-isms
Phase two of Stephenie Meyer’s beloved vampire series begins on our self-lathing heroine Bella Swan’s 18th birthday. In New Moon, the gothess is struggling with a Matthew McConaughey-ism: She will keep getting older, while her…
Top 10 of 2008, plus bonus worst 3
The Soul Thief by Charles Baxter: Despite the fact that Charles Baxter induces a plot amnesia that always makes me forget what his books are about within a week of reading them, I am always…
Book Links: Bad Sex & Good Books editon
Minn Post’s Amy Goetzman writes about the popularity of writing programs in trying financial times and talks to Amy Shearn a U of M MFA Graduate about her first novel, How Far is the Ocean…
I was not prepared for the sexism in Twilight
Read Christa’s review Yowza! I was surprised by the rage Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight brought out of me. This was one of the most sexist novels I can ever remember reading, and I grew up on…
Playing with your food
Bella Swan, the new girl in school, is brave — albeit clumsy — a misfit who smells like freesia and has the high school boys in a drooling tizzy. Especially Edward Cullen, who sits at…