Marianne Love/Slight Detour provides this Christmas-card shot of one of her dogs dashing through the snow on her Lovestead property. More photos & story here. Also, you can see why Marianne wants her daughter to eat her Swiss cheese here.

Best Post: I am slightly embarrassed to say that 1) I paid (matinee price) to see this movie and 2) I not only admitted it on the world-wide web, but spent more minutes of my life that I will never get back writing about it. But it made me happy. It gave me two hours of uninterrupted silliness in an otherwise mostly serious life. And, if you must know, I'll even buy it on dvd when it comes out so that I have the whole collection. You can come over and we'll have a Twilight marathon. Come on. You know you want to/A Butterfly Moment. Complete review here. (AP/Summit Entertainment/Andrew Cooper photo)

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HucksOnline numbers (for week of Nov. 13-19): 51,200/30,890

Marc Stewart: “It's too bad they can't have Buffy the Vampire Slayer show up in Breaking Dawn film that has much of the pre-teen and middle aged population in full freak out mode. Buffy would drive a big old stake in Edward and Bella's overacted hearts. Yeah, I'd pay to see that one.”

Question: Who's a better vampire slayer — Van Helsing or Buffy? Defend your answer.

Costars said she was easy on the eyes when she turned heads in a dazzling white wedding dress. But not everything Kristen Stewart wore while filming Breaking Dawn was easy on her eyes. When the Twilight actress made her vampire transformation for the second part of the saga's final installment – the first of which arrives in theaters Friday – it wasn't the fangs she had to get used to … it was the amber contact lenses all of the vampires wear in the film/Alison Schwartz, People magazine. More here.

Question: Are you still interested enough in vampires to see another “Twilight” sequel?

The protagonist in Pullman author Richard H. Miller's first novel enjoys living a seemingly normal life in his luxurious downtown Spokane condominium. He likes to read, watch the Nature channel and drink red wine. He meets the women he dates through the Internet. He contemplates Nietzsche's personal life and whether Velcro is better than buttons. He also is a 150-year-old vampire. Miller will be signing his novel, “All You Can Eat” from 5-7 Friday at Hastings in Moscow. The author's first novel was released in October by Gray Dog Press of Spokane. Miller began with writing short stories. “Then I found out there wasn't much money in that, so I decided to write a novel. I gave myself permission to write something bad,” said Miller (a former editor with The Spokesman-Review)/Caitlin Cole, Moscow-Pullman Daily News. More here.

• You can download some chapters of Miller's book here.

Question: How many vampire books have you read? Which is your favorite?

She’s a lawyer who writes romance novels about vampires. While Rebecca Zanetti doesn’t limit herself to penning dark love stories about passionate bloodsuckers, that’s the tale that caught a major publisher’s eye. It earned the Hayden woman a three-book deal with Kensington Book’s Brava division. The first novel, “Fated,” is due for release in February. Zanetti, who started writing books just two years ago, is still surprised that it was the story with fangs that got picked up. “I kept reading everywhere that vampires were done,” Zanetti said/Maureen Dolan, Coeur d’Alene Press. More here.

Question: If you were to right a book, would it be fiction or nonfiction — and what would be the topic?

On her Facebook page, CindyH sez she has heard rumors that some people do NOT like garlic. Cindy suspects “those people who are nocturnal, have unusually large eyeteeth and a strong aversion to holy water and wooden stakes.” But she admits she could be wrong.

Question: How much do you (heart) garlic?

In this image released by Summit Entertainment, Kristen Stewart, left, and Cam Gigandet are shown in a scene from, “Twilight.” (AP Photo/Summit Entertainment, Peter Sorel)

DFO: Mrs. O & I gave mixed reviews to the “Twilight” video last night. She thought the teen-vampire movie started slow but picked up enough to be scary and earn an 8.5 out of 10. I thought it started slow and didn’t pick up enough to pull more than a 7. It’s a bit different to have a human hanging out with vegan vampires. But it’ll be more interesting if the American Indians introduced in the movie turn out to be vampire-hating werewolves in the sequels.

Question: What do you think of “Twilight” — the books or the movie?