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on vampires

Kate wants a new post. Since she lives in Prague now and I only get to talk to her every other week or so, I shall indulge her with something random.

So, I caved and I'm reading the Twilight series. My students have mixed reactions to this. Some are utterly shocked and abhorred that their literature teacher would ever read (and enjoy) such riff-raff as Twilight. For others, they've found something they can bond with me over. One offered to lend me Breaking Dawn yesterday, but I told her, given the obsessive need I have to read them when they are in my possession, it would be best if it was never at school with me. I like to remind them that is, in fact, OK to enjoy escape fiction, even if you are a literature teacher, but maintain that they are no where as good as Harry Potter.

Vampire literature now seems to come up every week at Community Group. Two of the guys in the group have even volunteered to read the first book, under the guise that they want to see for themselves what all the hype is about and whether there's more to it than just a cheesy love story. They like to say that we had to convince them to undertake this, but in reality, it was their idea.

Even the Wall Street Journal is in on it.

Labels: books

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