my point…

back to basics here soon.  the release of the New Moon movie had brought with it a new round of criticism of the books, especially adults sounding off on how “lame” and “dumb” they are, and/or how they will not be touching the books with a ten-foot pole, so to speak.  so i am feeling [...]

fictional-real-life inferring

hey bella, caught you inferring!  haha, not so funny {i get it}, yet highly entertaining to be reading along in this hyper-aware state of metacognition, and infer that your protagonist is inferring in her “real life” and see her clues and schema that help her make her inference… haHA!!  talk about the circle of life [...]

in which the vampire is switched out for morality

i really think that the books have less to do with vampires than they seem {and i understand that they sure seem to have a lot to do with vampires, yeah, got that}.  yes, in the last two books, more of the story hinges on it, so i haven’t quite worked out my thinking that [...]

itsy bitsy inferences

I’ve been thinking that it seems to me that a good chunk of the book depends on me inferring things to keep up with the story. Not sure if this is Stephanie Meyer’s “style” or if this is intentional, or if this story demands this, or if I just have noticed how often I am [...]