Things of Nature

Twilight New Moon Eclipse and Breaking Dawn

are all have to do with Nature but they are also the names of Stephenie Meyer's Series about vampires. Did you know she's a Mormon? I didn't until recently. Well anyway, this book has gotten so much attention from teenagers and adults are age. I feel like these were a good think for the Y generation because a generation who might not have read 5 books in their life that they weren't required to read, picked up a book and found interest in reading again. I am an avid reader but I have friends that haven't enjoyed reading since the second grade that simply just couldn't put this book down.

The girls all drool over Edward Cullen,

and although I think it is mostly girls that got into this series, the boys I'm sure like the blood, gore and violence and the chance that someone is almost always going to die. Since it is fiction is was nice, to read something that wasn't so...real. Its nice to step out of the world. As we have grown up from fairy tails to reality, the world is telling us to keep our feet planted firmly on the ground and not to bother with things that wont give you a foot up in life. Take this computer class for example. Its practical. Most parents want us to be learning things and doing things that are useful, not reading about vampires.

My father wanted me to go to college and major in public administration,something practical, but my mother is a bit more of a free spirit and encourages me to read whatever I please and do whatever I please. I feel like books like these are not at all a distraction from the "important" things of this world but they allow us to gain a different perspective on things like morals, and life and and get our brains going. Watching TV can be thoughtless as we watch as the plot follows a predictable story line but when u read, it can get your blood flowing as well as your emotions, and your thoughts. Reading improves your vocabulary and allows you to sound more educated when you speak. My sister is a publishing major at an art school in Boston called Emerson College and she feels like twilight it trash, written all about sex, but to advocate abstinence. Although she might be right, I really truly believe that anything that gets young adults reading for fun for maybe the first time in their lives, can do nothing but good; thus, advocating my blog title, reading is knowledge. Anything to bring knowledge to the people. Any girl can get her hopes up about her very own Edward Cullen who is much more that normal but can see the differences in a very normal girl. I believe that Stephenie Meyers' books bring hope to those who are looking for that special someone, and that is important too.