Sunday Night

Posted by Cyn | Filed under Critters, Family, Reading

Yes, I’m bor­ing. I hate try­ing to think of titles for posts.

The girl is off vis­it­ing, hav­ing left yes­ter­day after­noon. Her cat is fran­tic. He is very much attached to HER, not US. So when­ever she leaves the house, he goes nuts, gets ter­ri­bly anx­ious, and is cer­tain that she’ll never, ever come back. He spends most of his time sit­ting in the front win­dows or sniff­ing under the front door, try­ing to detect her return.

Shel­ley never freaked like that, but then Katie vis­ited Atlanta once a week pretty much every week from the time she was a few weeks old ’til they moved here with me. She knew the girl would always come back. And Shel­ley was with me for a year before Katie was born, and attached to both of us. Kioshi is just a one-​​person cat. I should make that a one-​​girl cat, as he isn’t big on males at all.

I read the first of Laura Anne Gilman’s Retriever nov­els, Stay­ing Dead. Fun stuff, and I think many of you would enjoy it. Then I went on to Twi­light by Stephanie Meyer. Katie was so excited about it that I had to see what the big deal was. She fin­ished that huge sucker in a day or so. I took a lit­tle longer, but then I wasn’t the one check­ing the library’s hold queue sev­eral times a day.

I can see why the series is such a huge hit with some teenage girls, but I don’t think it will carry nearly as much pop­u­lar­ity with any other age group or males, period. There’s too much “oh, I’m bad for you” angst­ing from the vam­pire (male roman­tic lead). Seri­ously – he beats David Boreanz’s Angel all to pieces on the brood­ing, and that takes some doing.

The main char­ac­ter, Bella, is annoy­ing to me because she’s pretty damned use­less. She hon­estly can’t be trusted to walk down a hall­way with no obsta­cles with­out hurt­ing her­self. She’s not cre­ative or par­tic­u­larly intel­li­gent, shows no par­tic­u­lar tal­ents of any sort – a beige per­son, in my mind. What’s there to like?

I took a break and read Curse The Dark (sec­ond of the Retriever series) before start­ing New Moon, but I did start it. And damn, it’s even more emo­tion­ally dramatic.

I’m not sure I’ll read the other two books when­ever we get hold of them (I’m not sure the fourth is even out yet). I know that Katie will, though. The series isn’t writ­ten badly, but I’m way out of the tar­get audience.

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Permalink | July 27th, 2008

One Response to “Sunday Night”

  1. Hope Says:
    August 7th, 2008 at 8:12 pm

    Wow — I may have to check out Twi­light just for the Uber­Brood :)