Mindy, Mindy, Mindy

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Mindy Kaling did an interview with Bookish.com that mentioned Sweet Valley High. I was randomly excited and thought I'd share with you. I love her.

Bookish: When it comes to books, do you have any guilty pleasures?MK: We all know the difference between me enjoying Sweet Valley High versus James Joyce. As a kid, I always loved serialized books. It

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[author_by_night]

MK: We all know the difference between me enjoying Sweet Valley High versus James Joyce.

No worries Mindy. Every other artsy fartsy and/or "intellectual" I know (I say this as an uber artsy fartsy nerd myself, although I wouldn't say I'm intellectual) claims they read James Joyce when they were in kindergarten. Some of them, okay, I buy it. Most? Nah, they were reading Sweet Valley and Baby-Sitters Club like I was. Probably, also like me, even once they were way too old to be doing so (technically). :P

(And I realize that's probably most people here as well.)

[glitterberrys]

Seriously. I was thought to be a super-brainiac child, and learned to read before I was two, but i read at grade level. I could read and comprehend stuff above my age level; I just had no interest in it. I couldn't relate to adult characters or even teens.

[julieannie]

I can appreciate a literary novel but I never seem to enjoy them like a lot of books like Sweet Valley. I got a Nook for my birthday so I just got the download of SVC so no one could see me read it and I think I should have just never read it. It may have ruined everything I loved/hated about Sweet Valley and the Wakefields.

Totally agree

[cottoni]

but colour me stupid, I'll no doubt read the next one they release anyway.

[julieannie]

Oh of course! I have standards but I don't let a trashy book get in the way of them.