Reading for Sunday, November 9

Today I read from page 197 - 498. Life goes on as normal for a girl in love with a vampire. They exchange their personalities while going 100+ mph on the road to school every morning. (Edward has very good reflexes.) She meets his family, and they are all to happy to meet her. She learns that this family of vampires doesn't feast on humans. They survive on animals only. One day Alice, Edward's sister, foresees a thunderstorm because of her special power of futuresight. Jasper, Edward's brother, can change the feelings of those around him, and Edward can sense what people are thinking, although not Bella for some reason. They are all ecstatic because it gives them an excuse to play baseball. This is only possible in a storm because, since they are so abnormally strong, the sound of the ball hitting the bat is amazingly loud. While they play, another group of vampires comes upon them, as Alice also foresaw. They will abide by they law of not hunting in the town, but as the wind changes, one of the group of three catches a whiff of Bella's human scent. They scare him off, but Edward has seen his mind and knows that this man is a tracker. He chooses his prey carefully and will stop at nothing to get it. They do evasive action to get Bella out of town. They take her to Pheonix to keep in touch with her mom. She calls home to check on her mom, but only gets a message. Apparently this tracker is better than they thought, and has traced them to Pheonix, so they try to get on a plane to get out of town. At this time, however, Bella escapes and heads to the ballet hall where they have agreed to meet. She thought he had her mom hostage, and that is why she went alone, but he had bluffed in order to achieve her. He goes in for the attack and Bella faints. When she wakes up the Cullens have found her, and plan to help. She turns out find, and they all head back to Forks to resume the life they have been given.

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.