I Have Emerged From 11 Hours Of Reading Wide Awake

Whitley | July 18, 2009 | 9 Comments

I only got about 5 hours of sleep last night, and that was the only break I took from reading my first major fan fiction. I started at about midnight last night and was tweeting my reactions (seriously, I was a tweeting fiend last night!) as I got through the first few chapters of the story. I planned to read just the first 10 chapters, enough so that I could join in the discussion at Supers Secret Twilight Blog. (I even brought a notebook and pen with me, so I could “take notes” of what I liked and wanted to bring up on that post. Yes, I know I need to get a life.)

Yeah…that didn’t happen. I kept on reading, and then read some more, and then read more.

At about 3:30 in the morning, I was somewhere in the 20′s of the chapters and I told myself I was going to bed. I even wrote this post to give an update on my progress and to stop reading for the night. I left my mini laptop charging in the living room and went in the bedroom to lay down next to an already-been-sleeping-for-hours-Jeremy. “I can do this. It’s time for bed.” I told myself, and made myself close my eyes.

About 20 minutes later I was creeping back into the living room, feeling like a weirdo for sneaking around my own house. I snatched my laptop up (and to borrow a phrase from KD) like it was “my precious” and crept back to the bedroom to read for FOUR MORE HOURS, y’all. I couldn’t stop. I read until I couldn’t hold my eyes open anymore, then I put the computer back on the charger as Jeremy was waking up for a quick confrence call he had to do for work this morning.

When I woke up at about 2 this afternoon (yes, I know I’m so bad!), I rolled over and felt a momentary panic when I reached for my trusty laptop to continue reading and it wasn’t there. Then my sleep deprived brian remembered I had taken it back to the living room again before passing out.

I have read four more chapters today, officially taking me to Chapter 34. I’m going to force myself to go through the rest of the chapters more slowly, since I don’t have that many left. After I read this first time, I will probably go back and start over so I can do a post of my favorite parts and lines of the story because this story is just as quotable as Twilight, no lie.

As Ana Cristina warned me in the comments, I also noticed the story dragging a bit a certain parts. I wasn’t too annoyed by it because this author never claimed to be a professional, and I know from experience how hard is to write a compelling story all the way through. I read on through the slow parts because just when I was ready to skip the chapter, there was a little piece of brilliance, in the form of a witty line from Edward, a funny observation from Bella, or a hilarious combo of both that made me want to keep going.

So, to sum it up, I’m so glad I finally read this. It reminded me of reading Twilight for the first time, and just like back then, I had to stop reading a couple times and bury my face in a pillow, so as not to wake Jeremy, and have a little squee.

Now I will be scouring all my favorite blogs looking for fan fiction. I’m a full convert now guys! I already knew the girls at Twitarded were working a pretty awesome one that I need to get caught up on, and some of my other bloggy friends have entire sections of their blogs dedicated to fan fic reccomendations. I will hanging around those places A LOT more now, and I can’t wait to see what I find!

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