Good article. Thanks for the link.

For awhile, I kept picking up copies of Meyer's books, reading a few scenes and putting them down again.

Then I realized I would never be able to stand reading them, because Bella is such a non-entity. She's actually reasonably bright, but before she meets Edward, all she wants to do is gripe about her lot in life, and all she does afterward is moon over Edward (who is creepy but displays almost as little personality as she does, in my opinion). Ick.