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Article on the Twilight Graphic Novel

Leandra — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:46:24 +0000

So made a post just a few minutes ago about my Twilight Graphic Novel, so excited about it, well USA Today has an article about it.

They talk with people associated with the graphic novel adaptation and how Stephenie Meyer put her input into it.

Check it all out here.

“When it comes to really seeing Stephenie Meyer’s personal vision of the Twilight property, this is as close an opportunity there is to accomplishing that,” says Yen’s Kurt Hassler. “Stephenie was very specific and has very clear images of what the characters look like in her head.”

Meyer likes what she sees in Kim’s depictions of sexy teen vampire Edward Cullen and Bella Swan, the girl he loves. She writes in the introduction that seeing Kim’s drawings “brought me back to my first Twilight experience … suddenly I would be feeling all the same things I felt that first summer while I was writing their (Edward and Bella’s) story.”

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Twilight Graphic Novel

Leandra — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:30:11 +0000

WooHoo!!!

I got my Twilight Graphic Novel today in the mail!!!
So excited I love Graphic Novels and now I have Twilight!!!
I pre-ordered it as soon as it was available and today was it’s release date and I figured I wouldn’t get it today, but I did.
I’m gonna read it tonight then my step-daughter is gonna read it.

Just realized it was Volume 1 though which sucks now I gotta wait till volume 2 to finish it.
Hope it’s available soon!!!

You can order it at Amazon.

Update:

Started reading the Twilight Graphic novel and the artwork is Gorgeous!!!
Yeah just thought I would throw that out there.
Kudos to the artist!!!!!

Comparison of Eclipse Quotes between the trailer and the book

Leandra — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:07:12 +0000

The Twilight Examiner has up a pretty cool article that compares lines from the Eclipse Trailer to lines in the book.

Check them all out here.

Below are a couple:

Trailer: “Isabella Swan, I promise to love you every moment of forever,” Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen.
Book: “Isabella Swan? I promise to love you forever — every single day of forever. Will you marry me?” Edward Cullen, page 460.

Trailer: “She’s still human,” and “the Volturi don’t give second chances,” Dakota Fanning as Jane.
Book: “We don’t make exceptions,” she said. “And we don’t give second chances. It’s bad for our reputation. Which reminds me [. . .] Caius will be so interested to hear that you’re still human, Bella,” Jane, page 578.

Thanks Alison!!!

Odds and Ends post

Leandra — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:32:23 +0000

Ok guys Leandra here.
Another weekend so another time for an odds and ends post with stuff sent in by readers.

Also I know there are new Eclipse stills out there, but they were leaked and not officially released by Summit so I won’t be posting them. Thanks to everyone who sent emails to let me know.

I also wanted to wish everyone a Happy Valentines Day!!!

Twilight and Eclipse Movie

Tiffany sent in a these pics of Indonesia Twilight Saga book covers.

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Audrina sent in the pic for this giant Remember Me Billboard she found.

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Mary sent in this Twilight Gift card she found at Wal-Mart.

Kayla and Journey sent this in. It was for her niece’s 12th birthday.

Katie sent us this graphic she made for us.

Robert Pattinson Comic Book

Leandra — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:16:24 +0000

MTV has some sneak peeks of the new comic book from Bluewater Productions featuring Robert Pattinson.

Lea’s Late Night Book Review – The House of Night Book Series

Leandra — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 08:25:42 +0000

Hey Guy’s Leandra here!!!

So I have read like a ton of books lately, got a lot for Christmas, so I thought I would share my thoughts on what I’ve been reading lately with you. I know a ton of you read a lot, I’ve got some of the books I’ve read according to comments you guys leave and wanna say thanks for that!!!

So here are my thoughts on The House of Night book series by P.C. Cast.
Click the Read More below for a quick synopsis and my thoughts.

Synopsis:

Welcome to the House of Night. This is a school for marked humans, Fledglings, to learn how to become vampires. O.k getting ahead of myself here. You see Vampires exist and everyone in the world knows. When you are a teenager and are marked you will leave your regular life and join The House of Night. When you are marked a crescent moon appears on your forehead. Not everyone who is marked becomes a vampire though some reject the change and die.

The books revolve around newly marked Zoey Redbird and her friends. Zoey is special. She has been personally marked by the Vampire Goddess Nyx and also has intricate tattoos most don’t receive until they become full fledged vampires. She is also very powerful.

In the books you learn all about the lives of the marked and vampires. Zoey’s friends are also special. Many possessing a powerful affinity for one of the elements fire, earth, air and water. Vampire powers are cool right.

Throughout the book series, 6 in total, you see the lives of Zoey and her friends evolve. Friendship, love and danger surround them at all times. Plus being a teenager is hard enough as it is!!! Throughout the series enemies become friends, friends become enemies and when you are the most powerful fledgling the world has ever know your life will never be the same!!!

My Thoughts:

So got these books because I kept reading about them in the comments so I decided to check them out.
I Loved Them!!!!
Couldn’t put them down I was reading like one a day!!

The characters are so enjoyable, likable and easy to relate to. I love the whole vampire mythology in the series, the Goddess Nyx is pretty awesome!!! The relationship between the characters is great. Characters I hated at the beginning of the series became my favorite by the end and vice versa. Zoey is extremely cool and I ache for the pain she goes through sometimes, I won’t lie a teared up quite a few time through the series. I don’t want to say too much for those who haven’t read the series yet, but I will tell you I was completely devastated at the end of Tempted, just in shock!!!!

I really recommend these books for vampire lovers. I really enjoyed them and think you will too!!!

Below are the names of the books in The House of Night Series:

Marked
Betrayed
Chosen
Untamed
Hunted
Tempted

You can order the books and find out more in depth information on each book by clicking on their names and checking out Amazon.

Twilight Graphic Novel Pics

Jamey — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:17:54 +0000

Entertainment Weekly has more info about the Twilight Graphic Novel. It will have a 1st printing of 350,000 copies and is comic book version of Twilight. Stephenie Meyer was involved to help make sure it will be faithful to the story and an accurate graphic interpretation of Twilight. This weeks EW magazine will have a 10 page excerpt and the full Stephenie Meyer Q&A. You can read more about it here.

You can pre-order your copy at Amazon. Check it out here.

Below is a larger image of the cover and one of the pages.

Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Volume 1

Jamey — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:18:15 +0000

Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Volume 1 is available for pre-order from Amazon. The 224 page graphic adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight was created by Young Kim, an artist from Yongin, Korea. This hardcover edition is set to be released March 16th. Check it out here.

What scenes should definitely be in the Eclipse Movie?

Leandra — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:11:49 +0000

One of our readers, Arianna, found this at goodreads.com. It’s a list of scenes from the Eclipse book that they think should definitely be in the movie.

Below is what they listed.
Do you agree?
Did they miss anything?
What scene are you most looking forward to seeing in the movie. I’m sure most of the regulars readers here know I am dying to see the tent scene. It is my favorite scene in the entire series!!!!

1. Charlie passing notes between Bella and Jacob. – To me this just shows how bad things got between Jacob and Bella. And just how bad its hurting Jacob (Arggg, I cant believe I just said that because I am so not a Jacob fan. Team Edward all the way!!)

2. All of the newspaper articles about Seattle. – If we didn’t have this then a lot of people who didn’t read the book would be very lost.

3. The trip to see Renee. – I think this is a must because, otherwise Renee would never see how Bella and Edward act together.

4. The English note conversation.- Ok I’ll admit it, this isn’t a major thing but I just love the scene so much. I had to throw it in here, plus it’s a good follow up on the trip.

5. Save the Olympic Wolf/ Jacob scene – This Scene shows how much Bella misses Jacob and the fact that you have to work fast when there’s a psychic vampire involved.

6. Angela and Bella – Its nice to see Bella hang out with other people, other than the Cullens.

7. Alice kidnapping Bella – The amazing Porsche finally comes into play. Bella and Alice get to spend more time together. Also Rosalie becomes a little bit like-able.

8. Jacobs school rescue. – it’s a nice little touch.

9. (MIA) Room – When they really start to realize that someone is after Bella

10. Knife incident – Edward gets to be light-hearted and funny.

11. Bon fire – Bella first gets the idea of the third wife

12. Jasper’s Story – Who doesn’t love hearing about Jasper’s past, plus it helps Bella understand being a newborn vampire a little bit more

13. The kiss – Jacob trying to make Bella realize that she loves him to, so he kisses her. Really how can this not be in it. And a bonus Emmett gets to have his very famous funny line.

14. The bet – I know that this one is small, but I like it

15. Graduation/party – A lot happens Bella figures out some major information and everyone finally gets to see the Cullens’ house. Jacob also makes Bella a bracelet (which I own)

16. Training – MAJOR

17. Comprise – MAJOR, MAJOR. Hello this is like the biggest must have ever. I say every little detail should be in the movie.

18. The tent – Bella realizes she loves both Jacob and Edward

19. The fight – need I say more

20. Poor Jacob – Jacob’s whole right side of his body is broken. Bella gets to spend time with him alone. it’s a very cute scene

21. Planning – Alice finds out she gets to plan a wedding.

Amazon.co.uk lists the top 10 best-selling books of the decade

Leandra — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:22:56 +0000

Amazon.co.uk has made a list of their 10 best-selling books of the decade and the top 10 best-selling authors of the decade.

Stephenie Meyer mad both lists with all the books from the Twilight series in the list. I put the lists below.

Congrats Stephenie!!!

Top 10 best-selling books of the decade:

1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – JK Rowling
2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – JK Rowling
3. Breaking Dawn – Stephenie Meyer
4. Twilight -Stephenie Meyer
5. Eclipse – Stephenie Meyer
6. The Tales of Beedle the Bard – JK Rowling
7. New Moon – Stephenie Meyer
8. The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
9. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
10. A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini

Top 10 best-selling authors of the decade:

1. JK Rowling
2. Stephenie Meyer
3. Julia Donaldson
4. Terry Pratchett
5. Jamie Oliver
6. Dan Brown
7. Enid Blyton
8. Bernard Cornwell
9. Alexander McCall Smith
10. William Shakespeare

Thanks Renee!!

Source: Telegraph.co.uk

20 Differences Between New Moon the Movie and the Book

Leandra — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:42:23 +0000

FearNet has up an article talking about the 20 main differences between the New Moon movie and book and why they work.

I listed my favorites below.
Read the rest here.

CAUTION:
Major Spoilers if you haven’t seen the movie yet and want to be surprised don’t read this!!!!

Click the READ MORE button below to see my favorites, I don’t want to let any secrets out for people who haven’t seen it!!!

Thanks Alice!!!

Here are a couple of things they listed:

Bella’s months-long depression, in the blink of an eye.. (My favorite scene in the movie I was tearing up!!!)

Fans were wondering how Chris Weitz would treat the infamous “lost” months of Bella’s depression, which are depicted by blank pages in the book. After all, October, November, December, and January fly by as voids of nothingness to the girl. Weitz and Rosenberg’s solution? A clever scene where Bella sits listless in front of her window as the camera moves around her to show the changing seasons outside. The trick captures her melancholia and is perfectly punctuated by Lykke Li’s haunting, wistful track, “Possibility.”

More snarky Anna Kendrick!

Besides giving Bella her very first brush with danger, the biker scene serves another purpose: letting Anna Kendrick shine. As Jessica, Kendrick once again steals every scene she’s in, and Bella’s foolish biker episode gives her some of her very best frenemy lines of dialogue. Bonus: Kendrick’s blissfully ignorant snark attack on zombie movies.

Two words: Face Punch!

In addition to the zombie genre, New Moon has a little something to say about stupid action flicks. One of the best additions to the script involves Bella, Mike Newton, Jacob, and a popular (fake) blockbuster movie entitled Face Punch. (Tagline: “Let’s DO this!”)

Carlisle’s Volturi painting comes to life.

Instead of waiting ‘til the end to meet the Volturi, we get an early peek at them when Carlisle’s painting comes to life as Edward explains their history to Bella. Thank goodness! It would be such a waste to have even less of Aro & Co. in New Moon than the brief sequence we already get.

Victoria attacks Harry Clearwater.

While tracking the Wolf Pack – and slyly covering their footprints – Harry Clearwater suffers a fatal heart attack in the woods. But in the film, we see that Harry’s heart attack comes from the shock of being attacked by Victoria, who is seen stalking Charlie’s hunting party from up in the trees. The change here allows plot points to converge, as the ensuing wolf pursuit of Victoria runs parallel to Bella’s fateful cliff-jump into the ocean. And again, it gives Rachelle Lefevre something to do.

Clevver TV New Moon Book Recaps

Leandra — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:51:31 +0000

Clevver TV has up to Chapter 25 of their New Moon Book Recaps done.
You can check them all out at Clevver TV.

Thanks Selina!!!

Clevver TV New Moon Book Recaps

Leandra — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:43:19 +0000

Below is Clevver TV New Moon Book Recap video for Chapter 16. They have the chapter recaps up to chapter 20 now.

See all their chapter recaps here.

Clevver TV New Moon Book Recap: Chapter 13-15

Leandra — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:21:44 +0000

Below are Clevver TV New Moon Book Recap videos for Chapters 13-15. See all their chapter recaps here.

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Clevver TV Videos – New Moon Book Recaps Chapter 10-12

Leandra — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:13:55 +0000

If you missed their previous chapter recaps you can see them here.

You can visit Clevver TV here.

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12