Post #2 of what I assume will be many - New Moon

You guys have no idea how hard it was for me to resist staying up all night to finish New Moon.   My coworker and I made a pilgrimage to Barnes and Noble yesterday at lunch -- which required us borrowing Metro passes and coordinating lunch hours -- when I realized that with the $6 Amazon was charging plus $3.99 for shipping, it would be cheaper to just fork over $10.99 to Barnes and Noble.   Plus, let's be honest: I really could not wait 3-5 days for Amazon to ship this book to me.

(SPOILER ALERT!  SPOILER ALERT!  DON'T READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU HAVEN'T READ NEW MOON) 

I felt physically ill last night after I started New Moon, and I am still completely heartsick.  Please tell me Edward will come back.  No, wait, don't tell me.  I know he will come back.   I KNOW IT.  I told myself that I would only allow myself to keep reading last night until he came back, that the minute he returned I would shut the book and go immediately to sleep.  But the minutes and pages kept creeping by, and still no Edward.   I had to cover the bottom of the pages as I read to keep my eyes from skipping ahead.  When I got to the scene where Bella finds the clearing and is confronted by Laurent, I thought,  Surely this is it!  Now Edward will be forced to admit that he's been following her all these months, making sure she's safe, and he'll have to swoop in and save the day and come back to me, err I mean Bella.  But then Jacob (I assume it's Jacob, please don't tell me one way or the other!) and his cursed pack of werewolves burst in and ruined EVERYTHING. 

So, don't tell me anything about the books or I will have to kill you.  But please DO tell me that I'm not the only one completely and totally obsessed with these books (although I realize all the cool kids when through this months or years ago).  I have never been this into something (ever), and it's both a bit frightening and absolutely delightful.   Is this what the Potter craze was like?  Did I already ask that?  Do you have any idea how hard it was for me to not bring the book to work with me today?  DO YOU?

Comments

[Janssen]

This is exactly what the Harry Potter craze was like :)

And it just warms my heart to see you loving these books as much as everyone else. Man, though, just reading your post made me realize how long it's been since I read New Moon - I need to go back and reread, clearly. And I was reading as fast as I could to see if Edward would ever come back. I think that's part of the reason that book is so foggy in my mind; I couldn't concentrate on the story when THERE WAS NO EDWARD!!!!!!!!!!

[Erin]

Yes, this is what the HP craze was like. Fun, isn't it?

Isn't it strange how the lack of Edward totally changes the book? It was so intense for me!

[Isabel]

It's so hard to not tell you anything.

DUDE, JUST KEEP READING SO WE CAN TALK ABOUT THIS.

And yes, this is what the HP craze was like. But yeah, even I was late to this craze.

(My mom tried to get me to read Twilight YEARS ago. YEARS.)

[Isabel]

(Also, I didn't pay too much attention to Edward being gone. But now when I look back at New Moon I'm all bummed about the LACK OF EDWARD.)

(But I also don't hate Jacob like most of the fans do.)

[lauren]

I don't really have words other than EDWARD!!!! You'll love Eclipse!
Ok, I have to go read now! :)

[Viviane]

I also love the series. I found New Moon so hard to read just because I was empathizing with how Bella felt after Edward left... that was hard to read. I am now waiting for the 4th book to get here in the mail. I ordered it from the UK because it was so much cheaper than here, but it means waiting an extra week (or actually probably more than that), and it's really hard.
Glad I could finally read a post about the Twilight series, without having the last book spoiled for me.

[Audrey]

When I read these books I had to force myself to leave them at home. I knew if I had them with me at work I would not be able to resist sneaking in a few pages here and there at my desk. And you know how it goes -- allow yourself a few pages and that's it. A few hours and a couple hundred pages later, you realize there's no way you can ever read "just a few." So I left teh books at home. And I didn't get a lot of sleep until the books were finished. When I did sleep, I dreamed about Edward.