Monday Bites: Twilight Re-Read Along Chapters 16-20

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This week’s questions – Chapters 16-20:

1. {SERIOUS question} If you where in Carlisle position, do you think you would have been able to fight off your vampiric urges? Would you ever bring someone into that life, as he did with Edward and Esme?

I have no idea if I would have been able to fight off vampire urges. Seeing as I have no self control when it comes to chocolate, I’d say probably not.

I wouldn’t want to be alone forever so I probably would find myself a mate and turn them. Unless, of course, I found a suitable mate that was already a vampire (hello, Eric Northman, are you listening?).

2. {FUN question} We are introduced to Edward's playful side in these chapters, before he gets all manic about the new vampires, I think we have a better picture of who he is. If you had to describe him in 5 words, what would they be? Good and Bad qualities, whatever you like!

1. Old-fashioned
2. Funny
3. Protective
4. Melodramatic
5. Alluring.

3. {LONG question} While re-reading I have been taking notes: observations that I have come across re-reading and comparisons to the movie. One of my notes deals with page 383, in which Edward screams at Alice there is no other option. The first time around I didn't get that he meant the future that Alice saw for Bella as a vampire (because we obviously hadn't gotten to that part), but now that I know the whole story I see that is what he meant... Has this happened to you? Do you have any examples of things that are clearer now or things that you have realized while re-reading?

There are quite a few differences between the book and the movie that I’m noticing during the re-read, as well as some things I had forgotten about. One thing that I forgot about was that Rosalie and Jasper are twins. It’s mentioned in the book but that wasn’t the case in the movie.

The baseball scene in the book is rather short, whereas in the movie it’s longer and for me, was one of the best scenes in the movie. I love how it was lengthen in the movie.

I hate the ‘spider monkey’ line in the movie. It’s so cheesy.

4. {PERSONAL question} We haven't talked about this yet, but I think the idea of your human gifts amplifying in your vampire life is interesting (Jasper's control of emotions, Edward's mind reading), what do you think your gifts would be?

I have no ‘gifts’ to speak of so I’m going to just pick whatever gift I’d want if I were a vampire – I’d want to be able to read minds like Edward (I’m nosey like that) or I’d want to be able to teleport.

5. {SURVEY question} We are coming to the end of the book, what has been your opinion on this re-read? First, when was the last time you read it? Second, do you feel you like it more, the same, or less this time around?

The first, and last, time I read Twilight was in early 2009. This is my first time re-reading it (I’m not much of a re-reader).

I’m finding that although I still enjoy this story, I liked it more the first time around. It was the first book I read that had vampires in it so it was all very new to me. Because I’ve read a lot of vampires books since I’ve first read Twilight, I’m finding that Twilight was just an okay read; it was a good starting point for me in the world of PNR. Now I need my vampires reads to be a little more ‘grown up’.