The song for this chapter is Iris by Goo Goo Dolls (suggested by Deby A.)
[audio:https://twilightguy.com/music/iris.mp3]
I almost didn’t post today, fearing that three posts in a row might make people think I was forming a new habit, an expectation I would never be able to keep up with thanks to my impending deadline and already up-till-3AM days. However, the pull of New Moon was much to strong: and thus I embark into Chapter the First anyway!
My absolute first thought upon opening the first chapter of New Moon is: I am ninety-nine point nine percent sure I have read this before. I honestly can’t explain it, but somehow between 2006 and now, I have picked up this book and read the beginning of the first chapter. Maybe one of the many times I was standing in a bookstore, just paging through the YA section, and just picked up New Moon on a whim. Or I might have read it as an excerpt off Amazon.com sometime. Either way, I recognize it like déjà vu. And it is very interesting to think that sometime, long ago, I actually read part of this novel: having no clue at all what it was.
The first scene of this book has instantly drawn me in: beautifully written, so much that I didn’t even expect what would happen, even with that feeling that I’ve read it somewhere. Like the ending of Twilight, the thought that Bella the human could grow old while leaving Edward the vampire as 17 is startling: especially to them. Is it more frightening to Bella, that she must age and leave Edward the same; or for Edward, that she will die someday and leave him behind, alone again?
And, I must remind Bella, eighteen is not quite that old. If she thinks eighteen is old, and I am nineteen…where does that leave me?
AHAH! Stephenie said ‘Moot Point’ again! If not for me, that phrase might go entirely unnoticed by everyone reading, but thanks to my previous encounters with the phrase, you all might be pleased to recall my possible definitions to it, including Davy Crockett’s favorite pose (the Moot Point) and the latest scores in a game (due to the coach tripping the referee with a chocolate goose, the opposing team was given one Moot Point). I am nearly certain there is some story behind Stephenie’s attraction to ‘moot point’ just as my unintentionally common usages of the words ‘abysmal’ and ‘abhor’ and ‘rot’ probably do not go unnoticed.
Anyhow, enough of my silliness. The Volturi immediately leapt out at me: who are these vampires that I’ve heard about, and now finally have a name? And how is it that by making them angry, they can kill vampires? I have little doubt as the book unfolds I’ll be seeing more of the Volturi.
And, Alice…
“No presents,” I protested in a mumble.
She finally seemed to process my mood. “Okay…later then. Did you like the scrapbook your mom sent you? And the camera from Charlie?”
Show off.
While reading my new book (which, unlike my edition of Twilight, is hardcover) I discovered a new use for a cell phone:
Cell Phones: Good for Holding Open Books
One thing that I think should be done soon, if not immediately, is to find a name for Bella’s truck. After all, that old red thing has survived many a season, and now on top of that, it has ‘personality’ as Bella puts it (which almost seems like an excuse for a shower of rust when closing the door). How can such a thing not have a name?
Back in the olden days, people would name their cars, like Dashing Hopes or The Fiery Carriage. I, coincidentally, name most of the cars in my writings: and if another author leaves out a name for their vehicles, I usually go right ahead and name if for them myself, as they obviously simply forgot (what author would not name their cars?). Bella’s old truck might be the Rusty Bucket or Bloody Awful Noisemaker… anyone else have suggestions? (ADDED: Other than The Thing, which I don’t think has yet been passed as its Official Name 😉 )
As I got to the end of chapter one and saw Bella opening her gifts, I instinctively allowed my mind to relax. After all, nothing bad usually happens when one is opening their gifts. Wrong. After Bella cut her finger, that tiny drop of blood: I can see the entire room immediately tense up.
I was so happy to see the vampire action right up in the front of this one. But oh the torture! Leave me hanging so much at the end of the first chapter? Sheesh.
——NOTES——
– I just cleared out all the old song suggestions from Twilight: now everyone can start suggesting songs for chapters in New Moon (obviously, somebody was ahead of me, and already did for chapter one- one of the songs that didn’t make it for the Twilight Song :D). Send them in over here.
– Emails coming to those who sent them! Also, everyone who’s asked for a preview of my book: I’m working on it. I have your emails but I’m still way behind.
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xD- haha! Lol- I didn’t know people name there trucks, lol to that, how bout Old Red as the trucks name? xD 🙂
Ack, my vehicle’s name is JIMMY!!!!!! *Cough, Cough* and he has a tattoo in his rear end that says “Jack” so there is a good chance that he is gay….. and he wears make up…. (Window paint from homecoming -forever ago-)
—- And my copy of Twilight has the first chapter of New Moon in it… Perhaps thats why you feel you’ve read it before…. Or I could be over thinking things again….. oh and you are not the only one to notice how Stephenie commonly uses the term “Moot point.”
HEy! yay!! im soo glad i checked ur site
it’s 1230 here in Texas n well im still awake..lol I can’t wait to see wat you think about the following chapters.
good luck reading without stopping. n for bella’s truck it should be Old Rusty..lol yea sry not very original oh well
bye
Alexis
I’ve named the two cards I’ve had, but they’re just simple regular names. My current car is ironically named Alice.
haha
&& everytime I see the words “moot point” I think of you and Twilight. haha
Happy reading!
:]
“cars” not “cards”
It’s late, can you tell?
i think the name of the truck should be something long and impossible to shorten (just to be difficult) like the-big-red-monster-that-survives-all-and-then-some. hehehehehehehehehe i can imagine bella making everyone call her truck that, scolding them like children….whoah okay that’s enough silliness for one day.
i deffinatly noticed the moot point thing. i’m actually re-reading the series for the third time (second time this year…im not obsessed…) and when i read the moot point i started laughing so hard cause i thought of the davy crockett painting, and then i was like “i wonder if he will mention it again…?”
My parents have a rust-colored, 1979 Dodge Van that we call The Beast. It’s aptly named, because the thing is truly hideous to behold. Bellas truck reminds me of The Beast. And I think the name would fit her truck just as well as it does the sweet potato colored tank in front of my parents house.
haha…I’m just started re-reading new moon today O.o
ummm…”Bloody Noisy Red Riding Hood”?
no better
Larry…no..Bob…Bill? Larobill!
Name the truck Kaleb lmaoo or the simpler option would be just Red.
LOL! i love the phone and book idea. wooohooo so excited for you to plunge into new moon :))) probably the most surprising of the 3 if i do say so myself
ha!ha! i love your little pics in between your blogs.. lol i think bella’s truck sholud be named rusty granps. lol like grandpa cause its so old…idk. lol! how intense it must be to not read on after chapter 1.. your a brave little man.. with a lot of restraint. lol
How about Old Red Nag (ain’t what she used to be)?? lol, part of a song-ish thing, I dunno, I don’t name my cars cuz I’d prolly just call it Edward, lol, and it wouldn’t be too creative cuz everyone else will now be calling theirs Edward, or Alice (as one has done). Hehe, the tension in Chapter 1 killed me! I was like, she’s been through enough dangnabit! lol, well, happy readings!!
BTW no offense with my name suggestion. I’ve been reading the comments, and have been noticing that some of them could be seen as offending. I just think it’d be cool cause it was your idea to come up with a name.
yay!! I’m excited you started XD !!! Haha I totally notice the moot point thing every time I read the books (and yea, I read them a lot…) and ever since I saw your Davy Crockett thing it makes me laugh =D
I say you should stick with Bloody Awful Noisemaker. I like that one lol I have a friend whose car’s name is Alice hehehe
I’m glad I decided to check in here! That is a good use for a cell phone. I never thought of that.
YES! And not only cars, I seem to find myself naming everything in my life. My cell phone, my iPod, my laptop. Do you ever catch yourself trying to figure out the genders of cars? I have my sister’s old car – she swears it’s a guy, but I swear it’s a girl. XD
But yes, I am so happy that you’re doing this again for New Moon. And for the rest of the saga. Life would be just a little too boring without Kaleb’s thoughts on Twilight! :DD
And I think your input on this book will be -very- interesting. =]
Bloody Awful Noisemaker is good! I loved your reviews of Twilight and New Moon started off awesome. And you should consider yourself lucky. I got to read the first chapter of New Moon in the back of my copy of Twilight and had to wait TWO WEEKS to get New Moon. I had to wait THREE MONTHS to get Eclipse though.
I think i can speak for everyone when i say : WE ARE GLAD YOU GOT A HARDCOVER EDITION THIS TIME!!!
Oh and I forgot, I applaud the insane level of self control you have. I would never have been able to stop at that point. I finished Twilight at about 4am and read the 1st chapter of NM that’s in the back of the book (cuz I didn’t have a copy of NM on hand at the time…) and I swear I didn’t sleep a wink that night, I was so worried about what was going to happen…lol!
Rusty Reddy Freddy could work. try saying that 10 times fast.
Big Red!!! nah…hmmm for some reason my mind keeps leaning towards Victor as a truck name, weird ay?! It has nothing to do with the truck except maybe that their both old! oh’well…I think ill stick with Big Read 😀
Thank you for starting NM already!
i don’t want to get all fangirly, but we have the exact same phone. colour and everything. and i also use it to open my book open when i can’t find anything else suitable. i would name the truck grandpa. i don’t really know why, but i would.
Hi, Kaleb, I don’t know HOW you can stop at the end of just one chapter. It amazes me. I love the idea of naming Bella’s truck, perhaps Stephenie should have the honor?
Yes! I’m so happy I decided to check your site before I went to bed. But geez, how can you stop at the first chapter?! Well, I’m off to suggest a song for one of the chapters.
“However, the pull of New Moon was much to strong”
Ahhh…..failgrammar!
Don’t worry, I still love you 🙂
Finally! I figured out how to comment!
How can you stop after one chapter? And it’s such a cliffy! -shakes head in awe-
I’m really interested to see what you’ll think about the pivotal moment between Edward and Bella early on in the book.
I have no idea about wat to call the tuck…probably something to do with old, rusty and red…..haha.
anyway i agree with maggie. i cant believe you can actually stop after just one chapter.
and the first chapter in new moon just leaves you hanging!!
=O
anyway good luck with the rest of new moon!!!
=’D
Tell me about it…
When I realized that Bella had cut her finger, *I* tensed up. I held my breath, as if to stop myself from inhaling the scent of her blood… yeah.
I may have also stood halfway up, meaning to run out of the room before I lost control…
Then I realized that I wasn’t actually in the room, nor was I a vampire trying not to drink human blood.
So I sat back down. And relaxed. Then I turned the page, and kept reading! It only gets better! And more action-y!
Oh, and I vote “Ol’ Rusty” as the truck’s name. It’s kind of perfect.
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!-D
Thanks for starting with New Moon! I was already worrying if I might already have finished Breaking Dawn before you start it;-)
I’m really curious what you’ll say about what happens next. I was pretty shocked when I read New Moon first…
I believe Bella’s truck should have a good solid name like Hank or Clyde.
I prefer naming my inanimate objects with human names. I think that gives them their personality…
Great!!! You started on the first chapter straight away. Also, just like you, I hate how she’s leaves us hanging there after Bella cuts her finger. I hated that because I read the first part in Twilight which meant I had to wait to get New Moon to keep reading. Stephenie is a big tease sometimes. Just like those daily quotes…they’re driving me nuts already…
Finally, you’ve started on New Moon- possibly the saddest book I’ve read in the past two years….
Anyways, you brought up Bella’s truck and I thought I should point out that in Chapter One of Twilight, Charlie says something along the lines of “The Thing runs great.” And in Bella’s narrative she says something like- “The Thing, it had potential, as a nickname at least.”
That was from memory so I’m not sure if that’s word for word, but it does mention ‘The Thing’. That might have been Stephanie’s way of indirectly naming the infamous red truck.
Hey Kaleb!
I am so happy you have started NEW MOON! I really think you are going to enjoy it!
I was laughing through-out the entire blog.
I actually found it hilarious that you mentioned names for cars. My friend and I have made a joke out of that… my Ford Explorer is named Lola… while my friends car (who recently passed on to car heaven) was named Pete… lol… I had a rental care a month ago I named Beethoven. So yeah. I was also laughing because I use my cell phone as a bookmarker like that as well. Basically anything I can get my hands on that will fit between the pages works.
Okay so name for Bellas truck.
Did she not name it in the first chapter of Twilight? The Thing? lol.
Ol’ Sparky comes to mind.
Ol’ Rusty seems nice to, the peeps above came up with that.
or why not BOB.
xoxo
-B-
Meyer also uses the term “moot point” once in THE HOST. Though of you when I read it. 🙂
ahhh i can’t wait for you to read the next couple of chapters! i’m excited! *sigh* it makes me want to re-read them but unfortunatley i don’t own New Moon or Eclipse. just twilight. which funnily enough i borrowed them from a guy! ahaha he’s the one that got ME into them! isn’t that weird? Plus he didn’t have a problem admitting it either. when i asked him why he liked it so much he told me “cause its awesome! vampires fighting! so cool”.
3:19 in alabama and i just have to say i cant wait till you get to the end so that i can suggest a song because i have the perfect one; but i wont tell you cause i fear it would give to much away. as for naming the truck i did that from like the 5th chapter of twilight……”bert” or “ol’ bert”. although i have friends that have other names…. frank, marge (yea female!), and spud. i like bert but hey its all up to the person!
enjoy new moon!
<3
The cell phone idea isn’t that new, I did it with mine. (Come to think of it, that might be why my mom takes my phone when I read now…)Yeah,I cant wait for next chapter, to see what you think of just about the worst chapter EVER! I think that maybe the truck could be named “Death Trap on Wheels”, but mostly the “Death Trap” part.
The Twilight series were written from Bella’s POV; a GIRL’s POV.
Turning 18 isn’t that old but to me, slowly approaching your 20s, and then 30s, is scary.
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Hey Keleb, I just wanted to say (sence you will learn all about Jacob in this book) that I personally like Jacob better than Edward (please don’t flame me anyone Edward is still great) because Jake makes mistakes, he’s human (mostly) and is much more interesting to read than Edward in my opion (sp?)exspecially in Eclipse, my boyfriend is pretty much an Edward to begin with (he’s a total sweetie, he listens to anything and everything I have to say, he’s always protective, he makes me stuff all the time and he is just all around amazing) but thank God he’s also a bit of a rebel or I’d go insain from someone so perfect lol, that’s why I prefere Jacob, he’s not perfect and that makes life exciting
i forgot all about that wonderful intro – Bella dreaming of being old.
Bella’S TRUCK = Iron Man? (or Iron, man!)
i’m bad at that.
i love New Moon, probably because i’m one of the few who believe Edward CAN do wrong…
but i say no more ’bout that.
My car’s name is Bernard – I name all my cars, I think it’s important. My first car ever was this old, but sturdy hatchback. I named her Greta and had it engraved on a keychain. When she died (may she rest in peace) I bought a newish Honda straight up, and this little girl I named Elanor, Ella for short. She was sickly, and didn’t last long. My current car is the only one I’ve encountered that was a male…
And Ahhh! How clever of you to use your cell phone thus! Mine, sadly is a slider, which works well for convenience but nothing practical.
I, as well as everyone above me, am SO GLAD that you have decided to begin the second book so quickly! I must admit though, that I felt the same way as you did… that I simply NEEDED to start it!
Oh nice!
I love this first blog about new moon 🙂
hey, you’re fast 😉 i was seriously surprised to see a “new moon” post right away 😀
and yeah, Stephenie is such a cliffhanger. Haha.
Yay, New Moon!
I never thought about a name for Bella’s truck… I know mine is named Jannifer. And yes, with an ‘a’ instead of an ‘e’.
I could be wrong (and probably am) but isn’t Edward the one who says Moot Point ? Bella might say it once, but maybe Edward just likes the phrase, ‘moot point’.
I have the exact same cell phone. Thanks for the idea haha!
I feel sorry for you, that cliffhanger was nasty for me too when I read it in the Twilight book that had the first chapter. I kinda liked The Thing (as mentionedin Twilight) for Bella’s truck’s name but I also like the Big Red Roaring Rusty Thing 🙂 It’s a mouthful but it gives me a great mental image. I can hear its roar in the distance…Oh wait that’s my friends fighting over my Twilight book…:)
Keep up the fast posting/reading!
About the truck name…I’ve got a weakness for the… how do you translate “Allitterazione” in English? Anyways something like The Rusty Red or The Trusty Truck. I love Bella’s truck I wish i had one like hers.