The Vampire Diaries Coming to the CW

Did you hear about the new vampire show that is coming to the CW on September 10th? It's called The Vampire Diaries and it is based on the book series by L. J. Smith.

Don't get confused about the other vampire series on HBO called True Blood. That is for mature viewing, which disappointed my twelve-year-old.

I don't know yet how they are rating The Vampire Diaries so I'm not yet sure if my 12-year-old, who wants to watch it, will be able to but she's excited about it and hopeful.

I'm just thankful not to have another medical drama on television again. I guess wardrobe changes are easy given they usually wear medical scrubs but given the popularity of vampires right now, thanks to the Twilight series, it'll be nice to have something else to choose from on television. I just hope they don't overdo it with the vampire stuff.

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Twilight Sequel Production Begins Soon

New Moon, the sequel to the hit book and movie, Twilight, is supposed to begin production in early 2009. Yeah! I hope it is as good as the first movie.

I did order the second book for my daughter. I promised her that if she read the first book (400-something pages), which was my way to encourage her to read more, I would buy her the second book. She's hooked now! She doesn't know I've ordered it already but she's going to get a happy surprise in a few days and I get my oldest reading more.

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Twilight Series - Read Them All! Now it's my daughter's turn.

I finished the fourth book in the Twilight series, Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4), in less than 24 hours. I sat up until 3:00 a.m. the other night reading this! It was, in my opinion, the best out of the four books in the series (though they were all good...this one was just the best, in my bookworm opinion).

My oldest daughter had parent-teacher conferences last night and her four teachers that I met with all raved about what a great kid she was, good grades, etc. They gushed so much it was almost too much, lol. She was really embarrassed but also loved hearing it all. Anyway, she REALLY wanted to start reading this Twilight book series and her school had the book fair going on that night for parent-teacher conferences so...yes, I bought Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1) for her from the book fair (would've been cheaper - like half the price - to buy it from Amazon but it's a tradition to buy the kids books at the book fair at Parent-Teacher conferences for good grades). I checked mine out of the library, lol. For her good grades (all A's), she deserved the book so we bought it (my other three kids also received books as gifts for their good reports as well).




Today my daughter had a 'reading marathon' at school so she started on her Twilight saga herself today...like so many other pre-teens/teens around the United States (and their parents too).

Of course, now she wants to see the movie when it comes out next weekend and get the poster because she thinks Edward the Vampire is "so cute" :)

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