From now until the release of New Moon, CBA’s FF recommendations will center around preparing you for watching the movie — New Moon through other character’s eyes, missing moments that weren’t fully covered in the book…stuff like that! All to get you even more excited than you already are and to help you remember everything that went on in New Moon!
Now, everyone knows that to really be ready to fully appreciate the movie, you need to re-read New Moon, and maybe Twilight, too!  But, you whine, I’ve read it 14 times!?? No worry, “Reading New Moon” and “Reading Twilight”, by Choices HP, are New Moon and Twilght in full, but with a twist.

Here is the premise set forth in “Reading Twilight”, so you can skip directly to “Reading New Moon”  (If you want to read both stories, by all means do.):
The story opens with Carlisle finding a mysterious box on the front porch.

Carlisle opened the box, with some trepidation and pulled out four books. “‘Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn,’” Carlisle read the name of each of the books. “I’ve never heard of them.”

“They look like novels to me, maybe even romance novels,” Emmett smirked. “Not your typical genre.”

“Let’s see,” Alice said, picking up the first one and then turning to the back cover. She read it in less than a second and was quite intrigued to find out more about whoever it was that would fall in love with the… She quickly stopped that train of thought, as the vampire in question looked at her curiously, and she quickly ran to her room hiding the other three books before coming back down. “I think we should read these books together.”

“Why?” several voices asked. No one was that interested in reading these books at all until that point.

“I think it might be interesting,” Alice said with a nonchalant shrug all the time translating the Star-Spangle Banner in Spanish to keep Edward from reading her mind.

Edward looked at her, not understanding why she was trying so hard to block him and the curiosity was really starting to get to him. She knew he hated it when she kept things from him. “Fine.”

“Good, I’ll start,” Alice beamed for a second before sitting at the dinning/conference table. Everyone else joined her, most of them mildly interested in the books now.

“Preface,” Alice read.

I’d never given much thought to how I would die —

“You’re already dead Alice,” Emmett smirked. “Why should you?”

“You’re not going to be interrupting all the time are you?” Rosalie said impatiently – she really didn’t seem to care at all about this.

“Oh, we’ll all interrupt a lot,” Alice smirked. “I don’t even have to use my gift to see that.”

“Hm,” Edward said thoughtfully giving his sister a scrutinizing look as she was switching to Latin; the fifth language so far. She just smiled at him and continued reading.

It is inspired writing?  Maybe not, but it is  fun way to re-read New Moon, and getting you to do that is my purpose for today!

Reading New Moon by Choices HP
Words: 204,342  (but you will probably skim some of the New Moon parts so it is a pretty quick read actually)
Rated: T

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