Meyer Mania

This week we received more exciting news to make this winter a little more bearable. Not only do we have the opening of The Spiderwick Chronicles to look forward to next week and Brisingr to look forward to in September, now we can anxiously await August as well. Breaking Dawn, the fourth and final novel in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight saga, will be released at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday, August 2nd. The cover art will be revealed in the Eclipse Special Edition, which goes on sale May 31; that edition will also contain the new book’s first chapter.

The movie version of Twilight will be released on December 12 starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson , who you may recognize as Cedric from Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire.

May 6th Meyer’s first adult novel, The Host, will be released. Is this something you are anxious to read while waiting for Breaking Dawn? Will this become an instant bestseller because of Meyer’s popularity with the young adult crowd or will it fail for the same reason? What do you think?

Wisconsin Thaw

Yesterday we received six inches of fresh snow and today we are under a wind chill advisory. On my way to the store today I was trapped behind a ‘Conga Line’ which, according to Bonnie Stewart and Cathy McGlynn’s It’s So Cold in Wisconsin, “refers to a formation of snow plows, not a Latin dance”. This weather makes me thankful that I will not be one of the brave souls at Lambeau Field this weekend watching the Green Bay Packers in their final victory before the Super Bowl. At least that’s what I keep telling myself.

There is some good news though. The release date of the third title in Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance Series has been moved up to 12:01 a.m. on September 20. It has been a long wait since the second in the series, Eldest, was first published in August of 2005 and Eragon began the excitement in 2003. The title of book three, Brisingr, is an Old Norse word for "fire," and is the first word in that language that Eragon hears.
According to Knopf Books for Young Readers, Brisingr will have a first printing of 2.5 million, which is the largest initial print run to date for the Random House Children's Books division. Paolini's first two books, Eragon and Eldest, have sold 12.5 million copies worldwide. Watch for a midnight release party at an independent bookstore near you!

How about you? Are you anxiously awaiting the arrival of Brisingr and will this release be celebrated as much as a title which shall not be named last summer?