It’s August 1!  Eleven hours from now, I should be purchasing my copy of Breaking Dawn.  Time seems to be dragging at the moment.  It’s very quiet at work, but I can’t read the end of Eclipse until I leave this evening.  At least that should make the time pass faster once I get home.  I’m going to the midnight release party at the Barnes & Noble near my house, and I plan to take some pictures.  I’ll write about it this weekend (after I’m done reading)!

However, I still need to wrap up my observations of Twilight.  So let’s get started:

• How does a baseball bat (even an aluminum bat) not break when a vampire hits a ball?  Surely the impact would damage the bat in some way, right?
• When Laurent, Victoria, and James emerged from the woods, I was immediately creeped out.  One of the scarier facts about them is that none of them were wearing shoes.  Imagine a deadly predator that can move amazingly fast.  Now imagine that there’s no chance you can hear them at all.  I think that’s terrifying.
• If Bella didn’t seem like a teenager before, she certainly does when she’s getting her things from Charlie’s in order to leave.  There’s the screaming, crying, door slamming, and utter confusion in this scene.  It’s no wonder Charlie is astounded. 
• I can’t believe that Charlie lets Bella leave.  Sure, Bella quoting her mother is playing dirty.  However I can’t imagine that Charlie would just let Bella run out of the house and drive away while she was so emotional.  If nothing else, he’s a sheriff and he would be concerned about Bella’s safety.
• What would it feel like to have Jasper alter your emotions?  It would be great to feel calmer when you’re in a very stressful situation.  If you were aware of it, though, I think it could be distressing.  How strange would it be to have thoughts of panic but not have the emotional reaction?
• How ironic is it that Bella goes to confront James at the dance studio?  Clumsy Bella walks into a building where gracefulness is taught in order to face an amazingly graceful and cunning opponent. 
• I am very interested to see the fight scene between James and Edward when the movie comes out.  In my mind, I see it as being nearly lyrical.  It will also be great to see because Bella only remembers bits and pieces of what happened in the book. 
• She fell down two flights of stairs and through a window?  Who thinks this is a plausible cover story?  I know that Bella is clumsy, but that is really over the top.  Alice must have done a damn good job of faking the accident scene.  I guess it was good that Carlisle was there as well.  The “fell down the stairs” story may not have gone down well with doctors who might have assumed Bella was abused had he not been there.

It’s been very interesting for me to re-read Twilight.  I’ve noticed many things that I didn’t before.  I think that’s the mark of a good book: if you read it several times, and you’re still getting something out of it, it must be at least interesting.  I’ve also learned some things during this experiment.  I’ll never break a book into such large parts again.  I also should have taken better notes.

But that’s not important now.  What is?  Getting home to read before I go get my copy of Breaking Dawn!