Day Nine: Distracted

Okay, so, to be perfectly honest I'm super invested in the current Dog the Bounty Hunter episode and so this post isn't exactly . . . as focused as it probably could be. Can you blame me? No, no you can not.

The deal is I'm reading Twilight; or rather, I'm suffering through Twilight. My gift to you? You are going to suffer with me.

I have read 53 pages in which rain was referenced 33 times. I counted. I need a distraction from the plot or the lack of plot. In case you're foreign, the PNW (Pacific NW) is a lot like London and Dublin in that it has a reputation for rain. It's gray. Whatever. So. This book, written by a lady living down in Phoenix (Valley of the Sun she doesn't mind reminding us) decided to set her book in Forks, WA the rainiest place in the United States of America. She then precedes to tell us every time a rain drop touches the sad, pale head of our fearless if clumsy heroine. . . Every. Time. Every. Single. Time.

Great quotes so far?

Pg. 22 - "His face was turned away, but I thought his cheek appeared lifted, as if he were smiling, too."

Pg. 25 - "He was so mean. It wasn't fair."

Pg. 48- "I couldn't fathom his interest, but he continued to stare at me as with his penetrating eyes. . . "

So far in the story we have met Bella, an inexplicably pale girl from Phoenix who has moved to Forks to live with her father. She is drawn to a mysterious Model.Hot.Gorgeous.UnbelievablyBeautiful boy named Edward. He is mean and then he saves her life and then he's mean again. It rains. A. Lot. There is a lot of raining all day with the rain and one day it snowed but then it rained later.


Are you ready for this? Because, I am totally hooked . . . or baffled. Either way, this chick is a millionaire best-seller. I'm trying to ignore the part of my brain that says, Honey? This is a case of the Emperor's clothes. She has real talent, this Stephanie. Right? Right???