Twilight

Since I have arrived in Korea, it seems that I have been blowing through books. I think I have been averaging about 1 book every week or week and a half. So my old eyes are noticing the difference, but I am so glad I can read whatever I want-- no textbooks!!

I just finished the 'Twilight' series and was somewhat disappointed. The book is fantasy. A human girl falls in love with a vampire and her best friend turns out to be a shape shifter. This love triangle has its own problems as vampires and shape shifters are enemies. Needless to say the books were a bit over worked, and drawn out! She could have done it in 3 books easy instead of 4 at 600 pages each.

It turns out that the author is a practicing Mormon and her books reek of that fact! Throughout the entire series she is pushing her abstinence agenda. Without any question in her writings, the vampire and the human girl have to get married before they can have sex. And as many of these stories go, she gets knocked up the first time they have sex!! Why didn't she educate the girl about methods of birth control? I hate this abstinence agenda. People should be educated in all aspects of their bodies including their sex organs. They are not merely for reproductive purposes (if even your mother told you so, or better yet never told you anything at all). I know that the story had to follow this path to end, but there are so many places who rely on this agenda, and forget to empower their children with as much information as possible. It is just so sad that school boards and parent committees are not even allowing condom machines in high schools, and even some universities/ colleges in the US. They are old enough to make their own decisions, so shouldn't they also choose to protect themselves?

Well glad that's off my chest. Now on to something different - 'The Lovely Bones' by Alice Sebold.