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started by Pujan 4 weeks agoGirls flock to Stephenie Meyer's vampire novels with a message of abstinence. ......
Last Friday at midnight, thousands of teenage girls lined up at bookstores all over the country to get a copy of "Breaking Dawn," the much anticipated fourth and last novel in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series. In the months leading up to the midnight festivities, Ms. Meyer was dubbed the new J.K. Rowling by Time magazine and USA Today and made countless appearances to feed the frenzy among her adoring public. The book's publisher, Little, Brown, did a startling first print run of 3.2 million copies. A four-city "Breaking Dawn" concert tour starring Ms. Meyer and Justin Furstenfeld of the band Blue October -- whose music inspired some of Ms. Meyer's storytelling -- launched in New York on Friday at 7 p.m. (and was simulcast by Entertainment Weekly). And the first Twilight movie will come out in December.
Wall street Journal writes True Love waits
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Bella and Edward find themselves "unconditionally and irrevocably in love," as Ms. Meyer writes. Despite this, there are barely more than a few passionate kisses in the series' first 1,700-or-so pages, and almost no kissing at all in its first 500. Rather, Bella and Edward are satisfied by nearness. An innocent touch of the hand feels "as if an electric current had passed through us," Bella explains at one point. Saying her beloved's name, Edward, is "a thrill" in and of itself. Edward's breath on Bella's face is a heady, intoxicating experience, and Edward is knocked nearly senseless by Bella's smell, which he describes as floral, "like lavender . . . or freesia." They are restless unless they are together. But when together, they create more sparks than either knows how to handle.
Ms. Freitas is the author of "Sex and the Soul: Juggling Sexuality, Spirituality, Romance and Religion on America's College Campuses" (Oxford University Press).Interesting Article:Those who have teenage kids...
Last Friday at midnight, thousands of teenage girls lined up at bookstores all over the country to get a copy of "Breaking Dawn," the much anticipated fourth and last novel in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series. In the months leading up to the midnight festivities, Ms. Meyer was dubbed the new J.K. Rowling by Time magazine and USA Today and made countless appearances to feed the frenzy among her adoring public. The book's publisher, Little, Brown, did a startling first print run of 3.2 million copies. A four-city "Breaking Dawn" concert tour starring Ms. Meyer and Justin Furstenfeld of the band Blue October -- whose music inspired some of Ms. Meyer's storytelling -- launched in New York on Friday at 7 p.m. (and was simulcast by Entertainment Weekly). And the first Twilight movie will come out in December.
Wall street Journal writes True Love waits
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Bella and Edward find themselves "unconditionally and irrevocably in love," as Ms. Meyer writes. Despite this, there are barely more than a few passionate kisses in the series' first 1,700-or-so pages, and almost no kissing at all in its first 500. Rather, Bella and Edward are satisfied by nearness. An innocent touch of the hand feels "as if an electric current had passed through us," Bella explains at one point. Saying her beloved's name, Edward, is "a thrill" in and of itself. Edward's breath on Bella's face is a heady, intoxicating experience, and Edward is knocked nearly senseless by Bella's smell, which he describes as floral, "like lavender . . . or freesia." They are restless unless they are together. But when together, they create more sparks than either knows how to handle.
Ms. Freitas is the author of "Sex and the Soul: Juggling Sexuality, Spirituality, Romance and Religion on America's College Campuses" (Oxford University Press).Interesting Article:Those who have teenage kids...