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Over Thanksgiving break, I went down to Iowa ( where EVERYONE goes to party) and continued reading Twilight. After finishing it in one day, I moved onto the fourth one because one of my friends was borrowing it and I had left the third one at home. I also finished that one in one day. Since I don't want to ruin anything for people who have not read the book or seen the movie, I'll just tell you about why I think so many teenage girls are being attracted to the Twilight phenomenon. The obvious reason is: Edward Cullen. In case you didn't know, Edward is a vampire. What draws people to Edward is that they seem to know that it is wrong to love a vampire, you know the saying:the forbidden fruit tastes the sweetest. Another reason is that I think some people long for someone like Edward is because they want someone, outside of their family, to love them as Edward loves Bella, and to protect them at all costs.

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I've seen the movie, as so many have, I loved it... But what did others think? I decided to check out some reviews for Twilight. Author for USA TODAY, Claudia Puig, says that Twilight had"questionable casting, wooden acting, laughable dialogue and truly awful makeup". I think I can agree a bit with the laughable diolougue. There were some very..um...interesting quotes. But for the rest I disagree. There was one thing however that I didn't particularly enjoy. The music. Something about it just didn't appeal to me. Funnily enough, Puig didn't mention it. Overall, Claudia thought it was a bad movie. Although I disagree, one part of her review stuck out. She said that "Director Catherine Hardwicke (The Nativity Story) relies heavily on extreme close-ups to make up for her lead actors' lack of emotional range. When the camera isn't trained tightly on their eyes and mouths, it's swirling around them.". I began to think about that and I seem to remember alot of close ups, or if not, crazed twirling. If anyone is thinking of going, GO! And come up with your own opinion.

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When I found this site, I was completely blown away. The website is called ODDEE, it is about some of the weird things that happen in our world. Anyways, I was looking around the website and found this page called "The 9 Coolest Aquariums". Unsure of what was there, I started to read. What I found out amazed me. There was one aquarium, in Berlin. It can hold 900,000 liters of water!!! Then, there was another one, I thought it was really cruel, it is called an iPond, it's just a little bigger than the iPod video. I felt awful when I read it, the fish does not even have enough room to turn. There was also what is called the Fish'n'Flush, instead of having the big whit thing behind the toilet, it is an aquarium. When you flush, it looks like all the water is draining out of the tank and the fish are going down, but it's an optical illusion. Besides all of these weird things, there was a car aquarium, a tv aquarium and a telephone booth aquarium.

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After seeing the new Twilight movie, I decided it would be a good time to reread the series for the fourth time. The story starts off with a young woman, Bella, who is leaving her sunny hometown of Pheonix, Texas and moving to a cloudy and rainy town called Forks. Even though I have only just started to reread the book, I have already noticed differences between the book and the movie, which is to be expected because otherwise the movie would be extremely long.

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Unless you've been living on the outskirts of pop culture, or at least within earshot of a teenage girl, you probably know about Twilight. On Friday, it comes out in theaters. I have to tell you, I AM SO EXITED!!!! I read an article about the movie. Some of it talked about how hard production was because Kristen Stewart didn't turn 18 until quite a ways into the filming. The reason it was so tough was because minorities can only work 5 hours a day. So for her birthday, there was a cake in the shape of a clock and it said "get ready for longer hours!" Maybe that was why it took so long for the movie to come out!

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I read an article about how on LOST (one of my favorite TV shows), they have a new character. Her name will be Amy, she will be played by Reiko Aylesworth. Apparentally, she was one of the original Dharma Initiative members in the seventies. For those of you who don't watch LOST, I advise you not to read it, you will be extremely confused! So anyways, that seems to confirm the theory that Ben moved the island back to the 70s. I am so exited to see how everyone on the island will react to the 'time warp'. Amy is an emotional character, and there is supposedly alot of romance around her. I am so exited for the new season. For the people who don't know, LOST starts on January 21 on ABC.

Outside Reading

I started reading one of the books that Mrs. Roehl read in class, The Pilot's Wife. So far, it has been pretty good. After waking up to a knock on the door at about three in the morning, Kathryn Lyons learns thata plane, flown by her husband, Jack,exploded while in flight and everyone died. So far, the book has talked about how she is dealing with it: basically how she is going through the 5 stages of grief. Denial, anger, barganing, depression and finally acceptance. Thus far, she has only gone through denial and anger. I think that soon, she will need to tell her daughter.