Thoughts for the Serious Reader of Harry Potter
How about Al Quaeda loving Twilight author Stephenie Meyer? The Onion outdoes itself here: ‘Terrorists Go Team Jacob.’
I think we’ll have to file this under both ‘Twilight’ and ‘Shared Text;’ who would have guessed that even our enemies hiding in caves in Pakistan are waiting eagerly for Mrs. Meyer to finish Midnight Sun? (H/T to James at TwilightNews)
Many folks here have seen the Eclipse film by now (along with the rest of the nation!), and perhaps even stood in ridiculous lines. Others of us are waiting for things to calm down a bit a before we brave the Cineplex (that’s me). In any case, we wanted a spot here at HogwartsProfessor for folks to post their thoughts on the film as an adaptation of the text (read: not to gush over the physiques of actors 🙂 ) after they’ve seen it.
Because the Twilight books are narrated by a single character, while a film can and almost always does show several perspectives, and because Meyer made the Bree Tanner manuscript available to the film makers and actors, the relationship between the text and screen may be particularly interesting.
From a friend in Wichita, Joshua Sturgill, of Eighth Day Books:
“she was just 17, and you know what I mean.” -Lennon/McCartney
Well, John, I went to see Twilight:Eclipse yestereve. Not bad as far as movies go. Best of the Twilight movies so far.
But as I left the theatre, I noticed a lot of middle-aged women attending the movie along with their teenage daughters – both wearing “Team Edward” or “Team Jacob” T-shirts and dark, gothic makeup. [Read more…]
Two times in the last week Mrs. Meyer has all but denied that her Twilight Saga has meaning worth exploring. Let’s take a quick look at what was reported about what she said before discussing what it might mean: [Read more…]
This past Saturday, I had the pleasure of doing a signing for Twilight and History at the nearby Waldenbooks. Fortunately, it was not an experience like Parnell Hall describes in his absolutely hilarious song and video about how depressing it is to have a book signing that no one attends. Every author has had these, I imagine (I certainly have). My husband still dines out on the story of the signing at Barnes and Noble when he was elated to find four people waiting for him to get there, and they were the only ones who showed up the whole time! We had a steady crowd, including one dear thing who looked at the book, looked at me, then said, in motherly tones, “Well, I’ve never read your books, but my daughter and her friends are just crazy about them.” She seemed rather startled when I assured her I was not actually Stephenie Meyer. (That was the weird part) [Read more…]
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