Weekend Nights Twilights

This morning's Toronto Star had an interesting article regarding the blossoming relationship between George Dubya and Stephen Harper. It was reported earlier that they were already on a first name basis as Dubya has been refering to Harper as Steve for awhile now. At this month's G8 Summit, Dubya called Steve over with a "Yo, Harper!" for a photo-op with the Nigerian President. Looks like Dubya and Harper are forming a BFF relationship a la Dubya-Blair. And we all know how that turned out!

I recently walked into my nearest Chapters and was hit in the face (not literally) with a large display holding Stephanie Meyer's novels as a prelude to her newest being released August 2nd, 2008. I had never read a single one, or even heard of it until I saw it online and in the store. But regardless of that fact, I picked up every single one - all 4 of them and took them to the cash desk. (After adding Merde Happens and another Chick-Lit to the pile) Three of the four Meyer books were a series about Bella Swan, a regular girl who starts school in a small town because of her decision to go live with her father. I don't know what drew me to purchase these books as I had read the back and realized it was about Vampires. I am not a reader of those stories. I AM a reader of the fantasy genre, but I have kept myself attached to only three authors: Jacqueline Carey, Juliet Marillier, and Anne Bishop. Therefore, I was skeptical with regards to the Twilight series.

I had just finished reading God is Dead and was going to get started on You are SO Not Invited to my Bat Mitzvah but I decided to give Twilight a shot. Starting Saturday around 8pm, I sat myself down and got started reading Twilight. Quickly it became 1am and I was a 400 pages into a 500 page book. I really did not want to put it down but I found I needed to because of an early staff meeting the next morning. I hurried home after the staff meeting in order to get Twilight finished. An hour later, Twilight was done and I was onto New Moon. I was excited that this book had 50 more pages than the last and I found myself again leaving around 100 pages before falling asleep. Monday I woke up early and did not feel like sleeping again because I wanted to know what else was going to happen between Bella and her vampire boyfriend Edward. Around 11am, Eclipse was started. A lovely 630 pages that I breezed through and finished around 5pm. Now is when the waiting starts. I now need to wait a month until Breaking Dawn comes out. There are two things about series books that I can't stand. The first is that one must wait in between books, and this is long and tedious and secondly, because eventually they do end and that's very sad. As I write this, I have just read that Meyer is also working on a companion book to Twilight from Edward's perspective. Although the book has no publishing date yet and is nowhere near done, I am eagerly anticipating its arrival. The first chapter is available for preview on her website. I just read it and I already love it.

Also this weekend, I watched Hancock. It was surprisingly a lot more funnier than I expected it to be. Since I've seen a plethora of hero movies recently, it was nice to see one where the hero was dealing negatively with his powers. Not negatively like the Hulk, because Hancock knew he couldn't get rid of his power. But alone in the fact that according to him, he was one of a kind and knew nothing about his past, so he ended up becoming a drunkard. I'd give the movie 3 stars out of 4. Jason Bateman's character provided a nice comedic value that complimented Will Smith's Hancock. Good movie, download it! :D