get out of my head
Is it strange for a 30 year old to be reading young adult books and totally falling in love with them? I'm not talking about that book you read when you were 10 that stayed with you. The one you pick up every now and again cuz you're feeling nostalgic or just need a comfort read. I have a book like that A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle. I've read it about a hundred times over the past 18 years. But that's not the type I mean.
I just recently read 3 books by Stephenie Meyer (the Twilight series), Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse. And I'm absolutely lost in them. I worked the overnight shift this past weekend, so on Friday night I read the first book, on Saturday night I read the second book, and instead of sleeping on Sunday day when I got home, I went to the gym (finished the last 30 pages there) and then went and bought the third book, which I finished on Sunday (or early Monday morning, as it were). Maybe it's because the books read so easy. But these are like 600 some-odd page books. Easily read or not, I haven't been sucked into a series like that in a long time.
I was thoroughly depressed when I came to the end of the third book. I mean completely and utterly bereft because it was over and the next installment doesn't come in till fall 2008. Okay, maybe not bereft, but But the worst part is that I can't get my head out of those books. Only when i'm completely occupied do they take a back seat, but even then, they hover in the background, simply refusing to let me be. It's the weirdest thing. I usually get caught up in books, it's about the only time I can focus - to the point where you'd have to actually touch me to get my attention cuz I won't hear you calling, sometimes not eve if you're on top of me. But to be caught in a never-ending daydream of the same characters is something new. Sure, I daydream a lot, but usually it's flutters from one daydream to another. For the past 3 days i've been lost in the world of these characters, so much so that's bordering on obsession. I almost thinking of writing some fanfic to alleviate the situation, but I doubt I could do the characters justice and I don't want to mess with the story line.
ARGH!
I just recently read 3 books by Stephenie Meyer (the Twilight series), Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse. And I'm absolutely lost in them. I worked the overnight shift this past weekend, so on Friday night I read the first book, on Saturday night I read the second book, and instead of sleeping on Sunday day when I got home, I went to the gym (finished the last 30 pages there) and then went and bought the third book, which I finished on Sunday (or early Monday morning, as it were). Maybe it's because the books read so easy. But these are like 600 some-odd page books. Easily read or not, I haven't been sucked into a series like that in a long time.
I was thoroughly depressed when I came to the end of the third book. I mean completely and utterly bereft because it was over and the next installment doesn't come in till fall 2008. Okay, maybe not bereft, but But the worst part is that I can't get my head out of those books. Only when i'm completely occupied do they take a back seat, but even then, they hover in the background, simply refusing to let me be. It's the weirdest thing. I usually get caught up in books, it's about the only time I can focus - to the point where you'd have to actually touch me to get my attention cuz I won't hear you calling, sometimes not eve if you're on top of me. But to be caught in a never-ending daydream of the same characters is something new. Sure, I daydream a lot, but usually it's flutters from one daydream to another. For the past 3 days i've been lost in the world of these characters, so much so that's bordering on obsession. I almost thinking of writing some fanfic to alleviate the situation, but I doubt I could do the characters justice and I don't want to mess with the story line.
ARGH!