Twilight

Since I had only planned on being in Korea a few days, I only brought the barest of necessities, including a book, Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. It's a pretty popular book which developed into a series and now a movie. Maybe you've heard of it. Anyway, a few friends were raving about it, so I started it several months ago, but never got to finish it, so I figured I'd use the down time here to finally finish it. Well I did. And it was actually pretty good. Of course, it had to end on a cliffhanger, and just playing around on Amazon.com, I noticed that there was an online bookseller who had a physical store in Seoul that specialized in English language books and was only a few subway stops over. So, having nothing better to do, I went over to check it out and to my happy surprise, found out that it was run by American ex-pats and they had the sequel to Twilight at a pretty decent price. New Moon was 588 pages and I figured it should last me till Tuesday.

Wrong.

Did I mention Stephanie Meyer is a genius at suspense? Once I started reading, I had to put it down every few dozen pages because I was angry at how the story was progressing, not as I thought it should, but the suspense became unbearable to keep away for long. I bought it yesterday and finished it this afternoon. The store doesn't have the third book in the series, Eclipse, so I don't know where, if, or how I'm ever going to find out what happens to the danger prone heroine Bella, or her vampire boyfriend Edward Cullen.