Teenage Fandoms

So, parents away, the mice will play. Or to use another phrase, the offspring allied through terror will cook for themselves. Having scraped something up from the freezer, and having a quiet discussion, brother P asks me "Have you read that Midnight they're all going on about?"

I like books, so my mind doesn't instantly jump to Twilight, as there's always a novel with a similar title. Still, for an almost 21 year old male to be curious about the series says something about how insiduous the series has become, almost pervacious. Also, it points out how few teenagers still read and can notice a good book when they see one. Twilight was published in the UK in 2006 - why has it taken 3 years for people to take note? Of course, the film has made an impact, but like many screen adaptions, fails to do justice to the text.

Perhaps eventually people will pay attention to the budding authors - before media hypes things up in all the wrong ways.