Happy Siblings Day!
Apparently today is National Siblings Day, and what better way to celebrate (beyond reaching out to my own sibling - Hi Khoa!) than to go over some of my favorite sibling groupings!
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In defense of Twilight, ten years later
This morning it was announced that the 10th anniversary edition of Twilight would include a genderbent version called Life and Death , in which Bella is now Beau, and Edward is now Edythe. As you can probably imagine, a lot of the Internet response has been pretty disdainful, as most discourse has been regarding anything having to do with the series, including Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, who have since moved on with their lives to do other awesome film projects. I'm not going to lie - I can be snarky about Twilight sometimes too. It's very easy to do so - there are a lot of problematic elements within the book series itself, and then add to it the fandom fervor, the gossip headlines, etc., and it's a perfect storm of mockable elements ripe for the picking. There has been a lot written and said about what is bad about Twilight . So I'm going to talk about what I like about it instead. At the time that I first read Twilight , which was well after t...
Part 2 of my bookish archives
And here are my smattering of reviews for book-to-movie adaptations! Thoughts on the 2011 adaptation of Jane Eyre Thoughts on the movie adaptation for The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones Thoughts on the movies for The Hunger Games , Catching Fire , and Mockingjay Part 1 . Thoughts on the movies for New Moon , Eclipse , Breaking Dawn Part 1 , and Breaking Dawn, Part 2 Thoughts on the movie for Divergent Thoughts on the movie for The Fault in Our Stars