Wizards to Vampires?

Harry Potter was the best and worst thing thats happened to me. I have always LOVED reading, loved LOVED it... and Harry made it all the better. Then Deathly Hallows came out, I read it, and was like, "Hmm... ok, now what?" I tried to start new series, books that were NOT part of series, etc... but to no avail, I just coudln't find something that really awoke my interest like my old wizard friend. For a long time I simply just quit reading, really... Absurd, I know, but I just couldn't get INTO anything. For a while now I've been searching for something that might reawaken my love for books. I'd heard of a relatively new and popular series that a lot of my friends seemed to be into. There was just one catch... It's about vampires. Yeah, thats right... vampires; blood sucking, scary, pale, walking undead vampires. As soon as I heard that Iwas like, "Yeah... ok, not so much for me." I had some friends back in my early teeanage years that were OBSESSED with the stupid things. They worshiped Anne Rice (Interview With a Vampire author) and walked around talking about Lestat this and Lestat that... yeah, like he was real? Um, ok. I was never really into vampires to begin with, but after listening to them rant about this junk for years I REALLY hated anything related to the subject. Fast forward to now. Friday we were at Books A Million and again I was wandering around hoping something would catch my eye. There was Twilight looking all innocent and interesting. Such was my desperation for a good read (well, any read really)that I picked it up, read the glowing reviews and decided (against my better judgement) to take a stab at it. Ben kind of rolled his eyes when I told him it was a vampire love story (Ugh...I still have a hard time admitting I would read such a book)but nevertheless I left with a new book and high hopes.
Last night I finished. I normally try to read slowly, to better digest and enjoy my books (like food, you know?) but much to my surprise, I could NOT put the thing down. If it hadn't been for my sleeping pills, I think I might have actually pulled an all nighter! *GASP!* I know, for someone thats been sleep deprived for 3 months, that sure is silly, huh? But thats how good it was. Here it is Monday morning and I'm already plannng my escape to the library this evening to get a library card (yeah, I know... I don't have a library card???) and see if I can track down the next book in the series, New Moon.
Hopefully the rest of this series will be just as good. I know some like it, some hate it, and some are just kinda blah about it. For now though, I'm pretty excited! Its been SO long since I was this excited to read, I really missed it.
So yeah, thats all... just had to share and have a bit of a laugh at myself. ;)