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Take a bite out of this library news

By Bruce Wallace
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 9:33 AM CST

Just when you thought it was safe to send your teenaged daughter to the library or the movie theater....well, think again.

The "Vampire" book series is coming to the big screen - the movie "Twilight" opens this weekend in Columbia and on Monday, tickets for opening weekend were nearly sold out - and teenaged girls across the country are swooning. For example:

In Pennsylvania "Twilight" star Robert Pattinson had 1,500 teen girls screening, showing their "Vampire" tattoos and begging for autographs.

Locally, the dozens of copies of the "Vampire" books at the Daniel Boone Regional Library and the Southern Boone Library are on the longest of waiting lists. "We can't keep it on the shelf," said librarian Pam Verduin.

Obviously, obsessive teen adulation didn't die with Elvis and the Beetles. You have been warned.

"Twilight" will come to the movie theaters this weekend with a long and profitable hardcover book background: four novels in the Vampire series and 17 million copies sold. Written by Stephenie Meyer, a first-time author, now 34, the series originated with a dream she had about a young woman and her love for a vampire, who returns her love while managing to avoid his urge to bite her.

Ah, young love.

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