Confession - I read Twilight

Yes, I am saying this out loud...throwing it out into the universe...confessing my sins...I am an English Major...and I read Twilight. (Hence the use of so many elipses in the previous sentence to emphasize my humiliation, and if you know what an elipses is, well then you REALLY pity me.) As an English major, there is a secret oath...an unwritten law...that we won't jump on the bandwagon of reading those nation-sweeping, best-sellers, especially romance novels. We vow to only read the best. We stick to the classics, the gourmets...I'm talking about the Jane Austens, the Shakespeares, the TS Eliots and so forth. Just as a wine-taster cannot stoop down to quenching a $5.99 wine-cooler from Big Al's liquor mart, our literary stomachs can only digest the finest books. However, my curiosity got the best of me, and I picked up TWILIGHT!!! Well actually, the whole truth is that my girlfriends all conned me into seeing the movie on a depserately needed GNO (girls night out) that I couldn't turn down. So being the literary junkie that I am, I couldn't see the film without at least giving the first book a chance. So I started reading it...put it down...read some more...put it down...had a baby...put it down for a LONG while...then finished it a week before the premiere. And then something funny happened...I liked it. I saw the movie. And I liked it too. Then, like a thriteen-year-old-girl-with-a-pre-teen-fettish, I googled the movie looking for pictures of the crush-worthy cast. Then I googled Stephenie Meyer and looked at how the story began (even THAT story is a good read.) Then, I decided that I didn't mind supporting an LDS author and started reading book two. (I know, another confession.) What can I say though, she's a good writer and she picked a subject matter that no one has touched for a very long time. Genius. Am I Jealous? Of course I am! I'd kill to be the next Stephenie Meyer! What English Major wouldn't? (Someday, I will publish. Something. I will. I promise. (All English Majors say that.) So watch for me, but in the meantime, at least read her first novel. It's an easy-read, good writing and clean...three things good novels don't have now-a-days.