Wherever I look, youngsters are reading Twilight and Stephanie Meyer’s other books.  Today, when I was substitute teaching, I saw fifth and seventh graders with these popular books during free reading time.In discussions, I learned that the youngsters enjoyed reading them even though the books had many pages.
And the movie, Twilight?  The students I talked with today, in general, liked the movie.  They acknowledged it didn’t follow the book entirely, but that didn’t deter them.  Some said they waited in line in the cold outside the theater the first day it came to their town.
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I’ve heard mixed reports about Twilight, the movie made from Stephenie Meyer’s best selling vampire book.  No, I haven’t seen the movie…and I haven’t read the book, or any of her books.
However, I’ve discussed the books with my 17-year old granddaughter, Kara, and one of her friends, Jennie.  Kara had no interest in seeing the movie after reading the books.  She’s a fan of fantasy and this type of book.  However, she said she found the Twilight series books slow reading.  There seemed to be a great deal of extraneous material that wasn’t necessary to the story, she thought.  So she found herself skipping that and getting to …read more