{"id":336,"date":"2009-08-10T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=336"},"modified":"2010-11-10T14:14:41","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T19:14:41","slug":"twilight-by-stephenie-meyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2009\/08\/twilight-by-stephenie-meyer.html","title":{"rendered":"Twilight by Stephenie Meyer"},"content":{"rendered":"

So it’s a romantic teen novel about vampires, not something I’d normally read. But I was ultimately captivated by Harry Potter and I really enjoyed The DaVinci Code, so it’s worth it to take my nose out of the air now and then and see what the TV-crowd is reading. When you think about it, these uber-popular books must be pretty entertaining to get so many non-readers reading.<\/p>\n

Twilight<\/a> is a chick book, no mistake, and I was chick enough to be reeled in. It’s superficial and slow-moving but oh-so-sexy. After I read it, I went back and read the chapters in the middle where they’re falling in love straight through all over again. Ah, those first throbs of new love. What can beat that?<\/p>\n

The amazing twist to the romance\/passion is that the author manages to pull it off without ever having her teen protagonists do more than chastely kiss. Men should read this for the road map.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So it’s a romantic teen novel about vampires, not something I’d normally read. But I was ultimately captivated by Harry Potter and I really enjoyed The DaVinci Code, so it’s worth it to take my nose out of the air now and then and see what the TV-crowd is reading. When you think about it, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-kids","tag-twilight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}