Confessions of a Twilight Addict

By Jennifer Morrison

I have something to confess.

I am an English teacher and a scholar who loves the Twilight series. I can’t get enough. I’ve read it—all four books (five if you count the unpublished manuscript, Midnight Sun )—an embarrassing number of times. When I let my sister borrow the actual books, I had a Twilight attack and paid another $10 each to download them onto my Blackberry. I saw New Moon the first weekend of its release…twice.

It’s not the actors Robert Pattinson or Kristen Stewart that I obsess over, or even Taylor Lautner’s recent and perfect abs (he is only 17 after all). When an interview with one of the movie’s stars comes on television, I flip the channel—it’s hard to stomach their semi-articulate mumbling. I don’t buy the fan magazines or stare at posters (though I did try to win Edward’s Volvo). No, what I love...

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