Reading from Saturday, November 8

Today I read pages 1 - 196 in the book Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. It begins with a girl named Bella who is leaving her mother and stepfather in Pheonix to go and live with her father in the remote town of Forks, Washington, where it is almost always raining. Her first day of school is very strange to her because almost all of the guys at the school are attracted to her. No one ever even noticed her in Pheonix. At lunch time, she sees a group of 5 seemingly perfect humans sitting by themselves, and asks her best friend. She is told that they are the Cullens, a quiet family whose father, Carlisle, is a doctor at the local hospital. Sheh is completely smitten by one of them - Edward she is told later. The first day he acts very strange around her, almost pained, and she is greatly confused. He proceeds to not come to school for another week. Time progresses, and they eventually become friends in a strange way. She is absolutely smitten by him, and he by her although no one knows it. After a bit of folklore and searching the internet, she learns what he really is. When she finally asks him, her fears of confirmed. She is completely and totally in love with a vampire.