Breaking Dawn

Okay, bear with me and my fanaticism. If you haven't read the Twilight series, you probably won't get it, so this is for those of you who care.

I am looking at a sticker by my desk that says "I was bitten by Breaking Dawn" that I got at the Lewisville Barnes & Noble midnight book release party. I had never gone to one before. We did not pre-order, but my friend that I went with picked a place for us to sit and read books for the last hour. The aisle we sat in was where they decided to start the first-come-first-served line, so after all the pre-orders bought, we were the first to get it. We had a blast with that. People would come by and ask where the end of the line was.

"I don't know, way back there somewhere."

"Is this the end of the line?"
"No this is the beginning the end is in another aisle."

"This is the beginning of the line? That sucks!"
"For you," under my breath.

Man, that was fun! Lexi was with us, so she came along too. Her friend Shannon and a few girls she had met from girls camp were there. I was really glad for her sake that she didn't have to hang out with us.

It will be her birthday (Aug 8) before we see her again, so I took her shopping and gave her some stuff I had been hiding away. I started reading the book to Mike on Saturday morning. We had a lot of interruptions (obligations, whatever you want to call them) throughout the weekend. Mike had to go to work before 7am for a few days and was very tired by Saturday night, so we didn't get very far before he started snoring. But I read to him while he was driving and working until his phone died.

Lexi was occupied reading the third book "Eclipse." over the weekend. We took them back last night. Because it was her birthday, I was committed to buying a second copy of the book so that she could take one to her mom's house with her. We didn't get a chance to before it was time to separate, so I just gave her the copy I had, with only three chapters remaining for me to read. (I say me because Mike "worked from home" while I took Lexi shopping and finished the book--Jerk.) We stopped at our first Wal Mart on the way home.

I saw the other three books in the series and knew I had a problem. I just wandered around, stunned, thinking it would appear, with a sense of hollowness like Bella wandering in the forest before Sam Uley found her. I walked out empty-handed.

We drove the access road scanning shopping centers for another place that might have another copy for me. When we found a B&N Mike went in this time to a similar scene. He asked a cashier, if there were any copies left. She thought there might be one. There were only three. *Whew* I didn't have to steal Arren's copy and prevent her husband from reading.

The cover has chess pieces on it. Not until the las five chapters do you understand--it is perfect.

It is the final book of the series, but there is certainly wiggle room for some stories from other people's perspective--a different series. The most obvious is Jacob. There are plenty of other characters that could have their own story, if not their own series.

Anyway if you made it this far and you haven't read the books, you have enough time on your hands that you should. Stephanie Meyer, Twilight. Get with it.