2009 Teens' Top Ten

More than 11,000 teen voters chose Paper Towns as their favorite book in the 2009 Teens' Top Ten! The online poll took place from Aug. 24 through Sept. 18, with the winners announced during Teen Read Week by WWE Divas Brie Bella and Nikki Bella, with a special appearance by John Green. See the video.

• Paper Towns by John Green (Penguin/Dutton)
• Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
• City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare (Simon & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry)
• Identical by Ellen Hopkins (Simon & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry)
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)
• Wake by Lisa McMann (Simon & Schuster/Simon Pulse)
• Untamed by P.C. and Kristin Cast (St. Martin's Griffin)
• The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart (Disney-Hyperion)
• Graceling by Kristin Cashore (Harcourt/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Source: Young Adult Library Services Association | ALA

Request: Cute videos without Jacob. Dadward fanfics. Other manips and fanworks with Renesmee.

SPOILER ALERT!

While we don't want to ruin the plot for any latent Twi-hards, ever since Eclipse started filming we've been dying for a sneak peek of Bella's wedding dress. In the meantime, we reached out to some of our favorite designers (Christian Siriano's sketch at left) to see how they envision her gown.

In Eclipse, Bella's dress is described as an early 1900s design (which complements her antique engagement ring) with friend and Maid of Honor Alice Cullen's modern tweaks to the train and veil. "You look like you just stepped out of an Austen movie," Bella's mother says to the bride-to-be when she spies her in the gown in the final book, Breaking Dawn. "It's gorgeous! So graceful, so elegant."

( Pictures after the cut )

There are some things you can always count on in one of today's modern vampire novels: a breathless, cross-species love affair, bone-breaking lovemaking, lots of smoldering eyes and buckets of spilled blood. But, according to TMZ, an author named Jordan Scott claims she saw a few too many similarities between her 2006 vamp tale, "The Nocturne," and "Twilight" scribe Stephenie Meyer's 2008 book, "Breaking Dawn."

In a cease-and-desist letter obtained by the site, Scott's publisher claims the fourth book in the "Twilight" series has "striking and substantial" similarities to "The Nocturne," part of a trilogy that 21-year-old musician/author Scott began writing when she was 15.

The letter claims there are a number of coincidences in the plotlines of the books, including a wedding, a post-wedding sex scene, a woman becoming sick because she's carrying a child with "evil powers" and the death of a main character. The letter from a lawyer for Scott also claims that "both the ideas and in many instances the text" of the two books are very similar.

Among the examples of the similarities is a scene in which a main character is ill from carrying a child with dark powers. In Scott's book, the description reads in part, "Her face was so pale, it was frightening; and there were beads of sweat pouring down her forehead. She couldn't even stand, she was so weak. ... She was violently ill, vomiting and scarcely able to catch her breath."

In the allegedly similar scene in "Dawn," Meyer writes: "Most of her dark hair was pulled away from her face into a messy knot, but a few strands stuck limply to her forehead and neck, to the sheen of sweat that covered her skin. There was something about her fingers and wrists that looked so fragile it was scary. She was sick. Very sick."

The dozen examples given by Scott's lawyer display some general similarities in tone and setting common to vampire tales, but, according to TMZ, an unnamed representative for Meyer dismissed the accusation. "The claim that 'Breaking Dawn' by Stephenie Meyer somehow infringes on an alleged book by someone named Jordan Scott is completely without merit. Neither Stephenie Meyer nor her representatives had any knowledge of this writer or her supposed book prior to this claim."

Spokespeople for Scott and Meyer could not be reached for comment at press time.

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lol, what is this fandom? a sue-a-thon?

ReelzChannel wrote an article on the top 10 ways Breaking Dawn the movie will be better than the book, or turn into a one way trip on the FAIL!boat. They shared a lot of my sentiments and it has some good lulz:

After Robert Pattinson’s announcement that Breaking Dawn, the fourth book in Stephenie Meyer’s ridiculously popular Twilight Saga, will hit the big screen, we got to thinking: Will it make a good movie? And more important, will it turn out better than the book?

Breaking Dawn is very different from the first three novels in the series (Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse) and saw numerous mixed reviews during its release week. The millions-strong fan base was divided — everyone either loved it or hated it.

We’ve come up with 10 ways the movie could either rake in major box-office bucks or epically fail in a way not seen since Speed Racer dropped off the face of the planet. Even Pattinson might not be enough to save this one.

( And the top 10 reasons are... )

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Breaking Dawn has made it through to the second round of WHSmiths children's book of the year, so go vote!

The winner will be announced by Richard and Judy in April on the 2009 Children's Book Awards.


Vote Here

OK I just got off the phone with the publisher and the girl told me that there is no additional information in this book just that it has like a leather back ribbon cover on it. She said its basically like the the Twilight Special Edition that was out.  With that being said I think I am going to cancel my order. LOL 

For those that are interested in ordering it still here is the link: 

http://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Dawn-Special-Twilight-Saga/dp/031604461X 


NOTE TO MODS: I have deleted the other post about this that was further down the page so that there wouldn't be two entrys on the same thing. Plus that way you could put the Update through! 

Did you guys know this already, is this old new?
Because i didn't..

"The production company has acquired the rights (optioned property) from Stephenie Meyer to film and distribute Breaking Dawn, the fourth novel in her series. However Breaking Dawn will not begin production until sometime in early 2010"

Source: http://acting411.blogspot.com/2008/12/eclipse-auditions.html


Note: please be nice, don't spread hate :)
some like the novel some don't.. deal with it.. don't kill eachother, please
kthxbye

Thanks to rekcusho, who sent me scans of the newest volume of the Japanese edition of Breaking Dawn, I can provide you with new illustrations :) But beware, the illustrations are once again very spoilerish and if you haven't read "Breaking Dawn" by now, you could be spoiled. Just wanted to say it :)



( More illustrations behind this cut :) )

And that's it for now :) The next volume should come out next month. :)

Title: House of the Rising Sun ch.2
Author: lolz_loser
Characters/Pairing: Edward/Bella all cannon pairings, toying with jacob/renesmee
Rating: Mature overall, pg-13 here =]
Category: romance/drama
Spoilers: The Twilight Saga in General
Disclaimer: Everything is Stephanie Meyers, If it were mine, I would have been Bella.
Summary: Takes place five years after Breaking Dawn. The Cullen family has relocated and are starting over! This chapter details their first day of school.

Chapter 1
Chapter 2

 

 

The cover of the next volume of the Japanese version of Breaking Dawn was just uploaded :) It will be released on december 20th and will cover the first half of Book 2: Jacob. Enjoy :)



I will update with a new post once the book's out and the new scans (rekcusho, you'll surely inform me when you have the book, right? :)).

Thanks to rekcusho, I now have the scans of the first volume of the Japanese edition of Breaking Dawn, titled "Twilight 10: vampire no hanayome (the vampire bride)". The scans are a bit spoilerish, so if you haven't read Breaking Dawn yet, I'd recommend you not to look at them XD I can just say that I guessed fairly right which scenes were turned into illustrations ;)

( Japanese Breaking Dawn illustrations )

Okay you guys, I know this is probably the third post about the Japanese release of "Breaking Dawn" that I'm making, but once again, there's new info as well as a very nice looking homepage about the Japanese volumes of "Breaking Dawn" that was put up today by the publisher villagebooks. Here's a little sneak peek at the page:



( More info about the remaining volumes and the movie )

October, 30th was released the italian version of Breaking Dawn. I forgot to post it before.. Btw, the Fazi Editor, put one bookmarks in each copy of Breaking Dawn. I've got this one

click on the image to view the larger one

The other ones are with Edward, with Bella or with Edward and Bella together.

As I told you quite recently, the first volume of "Breaking Dawn" is going to come out in Japan very soon, titled "Twilight 10: The Vampire Bride" and the cover is now finally up on the homepage of the Japanese publisher, village books, so I decided to show it to you :D I'm sorry for posting something with old info, but the cover is really beautiful, so I had to :)

(I'm unsure if it's against the rules to post this, but I'll just try because it has a connection to Edward and Bella.)

I just went to the homepage of the Japanese publisher of the Twilight books and found out that "Breaking Dawn" is, just like the other books, once again split into 3-4 books.
The first one is titled "Twilight 10: The Vampire bride" and will be released at the end of November (in case you wonder why it's called "Twilight 10": The other books were all titled "Twilight" (yes, even "New Moon" and "Eclipse") and got a number applied to it as well as an individual title in order to distinguish them).
It will also, once again, have illustrations by Mangaka GotsuboxRyuji; the official cover is not yet up.

In case someone's interested (though there's just a piece of the wedding written down in order to make potential buyers and fans interested) and/or can speak Japanese, here's the link to the homepage:

http://www.villagebooks.co.jp/books-list/detail/978-4-86332-101-4.html

I will post the cover once it's up on the homepage :)

So I've noticed a lot of negativity towards the last book, 'Breaking Dawn', and as sad as it is, I agree with everyone's feelings towards it as well. So I came up with a little poll to see how many people would want them to make it into a movie. It's for my own interest, though I'm sure other's would like to see the results as well.

If it's not allowed, please delete!

Warning! Some of the questioning may bear spoilers if you have not read BD!

( Click to take the little poll! )