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Between blogging for your enjoyment and reading your comments, we can't help but notice the topics that drive your little fingers to type out a response. Sometimes it’s to voice support for a book, movie, or band. Other times it’s to call out a particularly annoying parental quirk or social faux pas. What’s for certain is that you have opinions and we’ve been analyzing them. The results:

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Sparkler pikori likes a good thriller novel, and recommends some favorites in this excellent post! —SparkNotes Editors

It was a great ride, but now it’s over. All the Twilight books are done, and fangirls are having panic attacks from lack of new Bella-Edward love scenes. But fear not, for here are some series that pack more action and plot than all four Twilight books ever did, without skimping on the romance.

SparkLife contributor Dan Bergstein is reading Twilight and blogging about it.

Catch up on previous installments here.

Epilogue

But wait! There's more! The story keeps going for a chapter-length epilogue. However, all that really happens is that Bella goes to the prom.

All right, there's more to it than that. Bella gets all dressed up for a special occasion, but she doesn't know what that occasion is. Alice makes Bella pretty all day at the Cullen house, and then a tuxedo-clad Edward escorts her to the mystery event. The fact that Bella can't figure out that they're going to prom further proves my brain tumor theory. Poor girl.

Ever since Robert Pattinson flashed his sparkleface in the big-screen version of everyone’s favorite vampire saga, we at SparkNotes can’t help noticing a certain trend in the always-churning Hollywood gossip mill—a trend that goes something like this:

TWILIGHT OMG TWILIGHT TWILIGHT TWILIGHT OMG TWILIIIIIGHT
*sound of head exploding*
*brief silence*
TWILIGHT!

Yep, these days, it's All Twilight, All The Time. But as scintillating as it is to hear about R-Patz’s near misses with NYC traffic, and as much as we all adore Dan Bergstein’s brilliant blog… well…

Twilight just doesn’t do it for me.
There, I said it.

Here at Sparklife, we’re certainly no strangers to vampires, whether they’re gracing the pages of novels, starring in upcoming movies, or getting run down by New York taxis.

For those of you who can't get enough of the fictional fanged creatures, we’d like to suggest a selection of undead literature and films beyond Stephenie Meyer’s lucrative franchise, starting with a list of other vampire movies you might want to check out between now and Labor Day.

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SparkLife contributor Dan Bergstein is reading Twilight and blogging about it.

Catch up on the first installments here.

Chapter Twenty-Four

Bella wakes up in a hospital room with her hands connected to tubes. Edward is in the room with her. She quickly apologizes for everything. He tells her to chill out, and she asks what happened. He says he arrived at the ballet studio in time to save her from the vicious James. Since we didn't get to see the fight, Edward could be lying just to get attention, like that kid at the park who said he could whirl all the way around the swing set, but only when no one was looking. Sure, when I closed my eyes I heard the swing move, but part of me thinks that kid was just pulling my leg. So maybe Edward didn't save Bella at all, and the evil James just died of a heart attack or vampire polio.

SparkLife contributor Dan Bergstein is reading Twilight and blogging about it.

Catch up on the first installments here.

Chapter Twenty-Three

For a change of pace, let's talk about what doesn't happen in this brief chapter:

Dan Bergstein is reading Twilight and blogging about it. Need to catch up? Previous posts are here. Need to join what is possibly the best Facebook group in history? Go here.

Chapter Twenty-Two

For about 400 pages, this novel was a bit boring. Then, faster than you could say "plot," a cross-country chase began, and mothers were held hostage. It's tough to keep everything straight. Here's what I think is going on:

Dan Bergstein is reading Twilight and blogging about it. Need to catch up? Previous posts are here. Need to join what is possibly the best Facebook group in history? Go here.

Chapter Twenty-One

I guess Bella doesn't have to go to school any more, because it's been about fifteen months since she last attended class. She's still hiding out at a hotel in Phoenix with Jasper and Alice. She's also turning into a bit of a night owl, sleeping most of the day and waking up at two in the morning.

Bella rolls out of bed and walks to the front room, where Jasper is staring at Alice as she sketches something. I wonder if Alice sketches all of her premonitions, even the unimportant ones. Maybe she has a book filled with drawings that predict what shirt Jasper will wear tomorrow or if Bella will eat the coleslaw that came with her sandwich.

If you're anything like us, you've probably spent the first weeks of your summer vacation sprawled across the living room couch numbing your brain by watching as many hours of reality TV as you can before your butt merges with the fabric. This is the beauty of summer stretching out before you: three months of uninterrupted nothing-to-do'ness.

The problem is, as those those empty days of summer haze turn to weeks to months, you'll probably start to get a little (sotto voce) bored. Enter SparkLife on our white stallion!