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I stumbled upon the movie Twilight when it was shown during our satellite provider's free Showtime weekend.  I watched it, and thought the acting was a bit hokey and stumbling, but liked the plot enough to borrow the paperback from a friend.  I read through the book in one day- all 544 pages, and couldn't wait to keep reading through the series.  I enjoy Stephenie's writing, even if she is a smidgen "cliche'-ish", and had the whole series of 4 books done in a week and a half.  Yes, all while working 35+ hours per week.  I neglected my family a little (read:lot) during this time, but we all got through it just fine thanks to sandwiches and chocolate milk.   I am usually an avid reader- although usually single novels, country living magazines and do-it-yourself articles.  It's been quite a while since I've been as taken with a story line, and even longer since it had anything to do with vampires.  (I used to read Stephen King quite a lot during high school.)  

After reading and re-reading the Twilight Saga many times (I believe I've read each book at least 4 times completely through, and watched Twilight and New Moon dozens of times each) I found a post on a forum that suggested the Beautiful Creatures series by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, also published by Little, Brown and Company (same publisher as the Twilight Saga).  I looked it up on Walmart.com (why leave your house to shop when it's delivered to your door in a day or two? Besides, it was the beginning of softball season and practices hindered my shopping excursions!)  and ordered it immediately.  I LOVED this book.  While I deeply appreciated and related to Twilight and it's successors, I absolutely am enamored with Beautiful Creatures.  I can't wait for the next addition to the series to come out (Beautiful Darkness will be released on October 12, 2010) and you can bet I'll be getting it as soon as possible (and not sleeping/eating, etc. until it's finished!).  I have heard and seen that Beautiful Creatures has been purchased by Warner Bros. to possibly become a movie.  Movies don't do books' stories justice, in my opinion, for the most part, but I'm looking forward to the film, as well. I don't have a subscription to see all the content on IMDB, but they have listed that the film will be out sometime in 2011.  

So- if you have a little time for reading- check out a book or two from the library, purchase them from your favorite bookseller, and sit down for some summer relaxing reading.  Have you read them already?  Do you have any others to suggest to me?  I'd love to know your thoughts on your favorite reads.