How To Navigate This Blog

Here's a blog simply to give more information about what's in each blog so that you can get around quickly, hopefully it'll help - i've tried hard to make each title pretty self explanatory.

(also my blog is really strictly focused on Edward/Bella fanfic, i'm 100% cannon couples so if your looking for something else then you won't find it here. But i also like to have a lot of A/J and Em/R in the stories i recommend)

If you know of a story that i should go read/review (doesn't matter if its just a story you like or if you wrote it yourself) go to this blog Suggestions and fill out the form as many times for as many stories that you think are amazing/should get more recognition then they do.

FanFic Rec Blogs...

(oldest-newest) (more in depth at the top of each blog)

1. Once Upon A Time... any stories that take place other than the present (so anything from kings and queens to the roaring 20s)

2. Cops and Robbers - all crime, crime solving, law enforcement stories of any kind are here

3. Sweet Tooth - stories that can possibly be more fluff then plot but they are quite cute

4. Seemingly Questionable - anything that could offend possibly or have plot lines of a seemingly uncomfortable nature (i.e. huge age gaps, dark/controlling characters)

5. Missing Moments - stories that write about parts of the book that were simply mentioned in the original series or alternate POVs for parts of the books

6. Pixies and Southern Drawls - alice and jasper centered fics

7. Lights, Camera, Action! - if one of the main people is famous, here's where the story is

8. Workplace Rendezvous - stories that take place when they meet at work/work together

9. Fallen Stars - stories that deal with broken characters that are dealing with a lot more (one of my favorite categories actually)

10. No time? Check this out - one shots

11. The Education System - if they are in high school, college, or teaching, or simply at the age of those then here are those stories

12. Let Lose in the "Real World" - anything that is after college that doesn't fit into any of the blogs above

(all above are posted in April)

13. Lions, Tigers and Vampires...oh my - all stories that involve vampires or anything supernatural

(posted in June)

Blogs About/Talking With Authors....

All blogs that start with Spotlight: ____ are my blog's that contain interview's with fanfiction authors. Definitely stop by and read them - really interesting. Each talks about their stories, their writing processes, what they think of the movies and just some other things about them. Note: hey any authors out there that i've rec'd your stories and would like to be intervened, i'd love to do that

Blogs About The Movies or Books....

1. Breaking Dawn

2. An Eclipse Novella: Bree Tanner

3. Breaking Dawn: Controveral Scenes and Ratings

4. Eclipse Movie Review (by me)

5. Eclipse Photo Blog (photo's from the movie that i was going to put into the review but there were just too many, couldn't decide so i stuck them all up)

6. Eclipse Music Review (a review of the soundtrack and score by MC)

7. Twilight Cast Growing Up - photo's of Edward, Bella and Jake one for each movie, showing how they changed and grew up

8. Lee Pace to be in Breaking Dawn?

9. Release Date Breaking Dawn: Part 2

10. The 100 Coolest Things On The Planet (Twilight made it!)

11. Congrats to all the twilight wins at the TCA

Blogs Misc....

1. Boycotts and Barflies ...explaining where it went

2. Not a fanfic, but its pretty epic... some fan videos that were, well amazing

3. Exciting News .. MC and I are writing a fic (so exciting)

4. Commenting? What's That? ...just a blog about why i'd like comments if you visit/if you could what i'd like to be commented about

5. Hey ed, why isn't there a "why read" on every rec....

6. Red Title .. explanation for red titles for some rec's

7. Lack of Love for No Good Reason - little rant about all the twilight haters and about all the unseen good twilight has done since its been published

8. From Ed with love - just a little thank you to anyone reading/following

9. The paparazzi Reform Initiative - all about this reform to try and get ride of paparazzi and handle the harassment they put upon celebrities, really cool - check it out

Twilight Cast Growing Up

I thought this was really interesting, seeing how each of the main characters changed and grew up through the films. Its weird seeing them together like this, since you normally wouldn't see it side by side. I loved all the changes they've made and think each one looks better for it, and by far look the best in eclipse. Anyone have any other thoughts?

Eclipse Music Review

I'd like to give MC a warm welcome here at the Electronic Bookshelf, she was kind enough to give a music review for the soundtrack and the score of Eclipse, enjoy!!

As my friend Ed knows, I am absolutely crazy about music. Not only songs with lyrics though: I love scores, probably even better than the music from the motion picture. Whenever I see a film with an outstanding score, I use all my faculties in order to obtain it. The original score, when I listen to it, paints a scene from the movie in my head. Listening to the entire album is like seeing the movie again, at least for me. So, when I found out that I could preorder both the original score and the motion picture soundtrack before the movie even came out, I was jumping around my room, only pausing long enough to click the preorder tab on Amazon.

When I heard that Howard Shore was going to compose the score, I went ballistic. Shore was the composer for the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and that epic movie was made even more so by Shore’s rousing score. I didn’t pause to consider whether or not it was a good idea to order the score…Shore’s name being mentioned along the same lines as Eclipse original score made the buy an ‘of course’ moment. Shore has a definite knack for building the tension in a scene, slowing down a moment, making that moment special and unique. What Shore also does is give the different characters themes, their own melody that you can hear interwoven into different songs.

Since this particular book had us going into the characters of Rosalie and Jasper in their pre-vampire days, they needed their own melody: Rosalie’s was bittersweet, reflecting the supposed love that she had with Royce, while Jasper’s sounded dangerous, demonstrating what he said in Eclipse: that a newborn’s life was measured in months, not decades or centuries. Jacob got his own theme as well, and Shore’s choice of making it a guitar solo was genius. Piano was strictly for Edward, seeing that it is a timeless, classical instrument, like Edward himself. The electric guitar was perfect for Jacob; it was kind of angry, but beautiful, and definitely needed to be heard, much like his love for Bella. Victoria was given a choppy melody that got my heart beating faster.

I did not forget Bella and Edward…how could I? For their theme, Shore collaborated with Metric to create a song that he could take the melody from and layer into his work. The last song in the original score album was entitled “Wedding Plans,” when Bella and Edward meet at the meadow again after the battle and after she breaks Jacob’s HEART (I am not really a Team Jacob fan, but Ed claimed Edward before me, so I settled for Jacob…but I still get Robert Pattinson J), there is an orchestra playing Metric’s melody, and as Bella and Edward get up, and Edward slips the ring on Bella’s finger, since they are going to tell Charlie, and Edward wraps his arms around Bella, it morphs into Metric’s beautiful song, properly named “Eclipse (All Yours).” I was truly impressed with the score, and Shore truly was phenomenal with what he created for this international phenomenon.

The same goes for the original motion picture soundtrack. Metric was truly perfect, though it took me a while to get into their song. Muse, even though they usually impress the you-know-what outta me, they kinda fell flat. A song that really stood out amongst all of the others was Sia’s “My Love.” This is during the scene in which Bella tries to get into Edward’s pants. Right now, Ed and me are listening to the song from Sia on repeat, feeling our hearts break and mend simultaneously. I easily get swept into the music, into a song that is particularly heartfelt and gut-renching. Sia’s song is perfect for Bella and Edward, and to have it at such an important point really drove home the raw beauty and passion in Bella and Edward’s relationship, and the fact that they just took a giant step forward (i.e. the most sigh-inducing proposal, getting engaged, promising to wait for sex, so on). In the end, the music was truly stupendous, and I can’t say it enough. Without further ado, the lyrics for this burning, smoldering, beautiful, glorious song. If your heart doesn’t break either reading the lyrics or listening to it, I will seriously question your humanity.

My Love – Sia

My love, leave yourself behind

Beat inside me, leave you blind

My love you have found peace

You were searching for release

You gave it all

Give into the call

You took a chance and you took a fall for us

You came thoughtfully, and then faithfully

You taught me honor

You did it for me

Today you will sleep for good

You will wait for me my love

Now I am strong

You gave me all

You gave all you had and now I am home

My love leave yourself behind

Beat inside me, leave you blind

My love look what you can do

I am mending, I'll be with you

You took my hand

You added a plan

You gave me your heart

I asked you to dance with me

You loved honestly did what you could believe

I know in peace you go, I hope relief is yours

Now I am strong

You gave me all

You gave all you had and now I am home

My love leave yourself behind

Beat inside me, I’ll be with you.

Eclipse Photo Blog (spoilers - duh!)