(CNN) -- They don't call it "Twi Crack" for nothing.
Lisa Hansen, for example, thought she had lost her mind the first time she read "Twilight." Partly because she's 36.
"I was absolutely worried that something was wrong with me," the Utah mother of two said. "I just couldn't put it down -- I was obsessed completely."
She picked up the first of Stephenie Meyer's vampire novels -- recommended by a teen neighbor -- with few expectations. After devouring it, she couldn't get the images of doomed love between a vegetarian vampire, Edward, and an awkward teenage girl, Bella, off her mind. Hansen thought about the books so much she seriously wondered if she was experiencing some sort of midlife crisis.
"I thought I was the only woman in the world who was my age and was just obsessed with books," she said.
I along with hundreds of teenagers and other moms will be going
to see the midnight showing of New Moon tonight. I am not a
teenager, I am a mother of 3.
My son was the first person who told me about the twilight books.
They were all the rage with the girls at school. Then I started
hearing about the movie. I thought about when I was a teen, and
the movies I loved then. I knew it was a popular movie, but I
never had the desire to see it. But then the girls I work with
started talking about it. These married women some with kiddos, and
my 60 something Vietnam veteran boss talked about how he loved the
books. How they were well written, and he could not put them down.
After that I was intrigued. If this man was interested in them
maybe they were worth reading.
I have a rule for my kiddos, they can not see the movie until they
have read the book first. So I followed this rule too. I bought the
Twilight book and 2 days later I was searching for the New Moon
book. In the span of 2 weeks I read all four books in this series.
I would stay up reading until 2 or 3 am. I would get lost in the
story.
So...........Tonight I am going to see New Moon along with a lot of
screaming teenage girls. I am hoping it will make me feel young
again instead of like a weird old woman.
