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Posted: July 17 2008 at 7:06pm | IP Logged Quote Lavenderfields
Has anyone read this book and the others by Stephanie Meyers? What did you think?

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Posted: July 18 2008 at 12:09am | IP Logged Quote teachingmom
Funny that you should ask this today. I had a conversation with a 15 year old girl in our drama camp carpool about these books this afternoon. She is a wonderful Catholic girl who seems very well formed in her faith. She highly recommended the books. She admitted that when she first heard of the premise of the books - vampires, etc. - she assumed that she would not be interested. But now she loves them. When I asked if she had found anything in them that goes against our faith or morals, she said no.

Now that my girls are curious about the books, I'll likely pre-read them myself. They set off a few warning bells for me, but I had lots of misgivings about Harry Potter at first and those books have enriched our lives.

Anyone here actually read them yet?

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Posted: July 18 2008 at 8:10am | IP Logged Quote Cay Gibson
Catholic author Nancy Carpenter Brown is reviewing it:
Part I
Part II

From her review, I don't think Nancy cared for them.

The first I heard of them was this summer at the library. I bumped into a Catholic friend who has three teenaged daughters and use to hs. She said her girls loved the books.

I don't think we'll be reading them though.

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Posted: July 18 2008 at 9:51pm | IP Logged Quote Lavenderfields
Thank you so much for this information, I will pass it on to my dd18. I know these aren't books I would be interested in, and with this infor, maybe dd18 won't want to read them either.

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