Hey, everyone, you can sign up at this website to read chapter one of Sweet Valley Confidential. I can't wait to hear what you guys think.

Conversation about it in the comments, folks. Don't click if you haven't read or you'll get spoiled. But once you have read, let's talk!

And now, the moment you've all been waiting for! We've just done the drawing for our recap contest, and the winners are:

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If you've won, please PM Emily at strangerface with your address so she can mail your prize. We have three Team Elizabeth t-shirts and four sparkly Double Love compacts, so also please let her know which you'd prefer. ktnflag will get ( Read more... )

Hello all!

There have been a ton of new 1bruce1 members lately, so strangerface and I wanted to drop you a quick note.

First off, hi! I'm irinaauthor, and Em and I are your friendly neighborhood mods. We're thrilled to pieces that you're here and we're pretty easygoing; there are just a few rules ( Read more... )

irinaauthor's post about the death of Louis Miles gave me an idea. The original thought was to do a poem in the style of Edward Gorey's "Gashlycrumb Tinies" about the death of Jessica's many boyfriends. Well--this might shock you--there weren't enough dead boyfriends to complete the poem. But Irina and I worked on it ALL DAY and we finally came up with this ( Read more... )

Sweet Valley University #17: Deadly Attraction

I know the recap for #16 hasn’t been posted yet and I tried to wait, I really did. But this is the one where Jessica hooks up with her professor who’s married to a psycho. I tried to be strong. But then I read the back and saw that this is also the book where Bruce and Miss Lila move in together ( Read more... )

Sweet Valley High #79: The Long Lost Brother

I would like to start off by wishing the Wakefield twins a very happy birthday. If those blonde haired, blue eyed Geminis were sixteen in 1983, that means Liz is turning 41 today, and four minutes later Jess will turn 29 for the twelfth time.

So, today I will be recapping #79, The Long Lost Brother. ( Read more... )

Sweet Valley High #84: The Stolen Diary

I think I’ve said before how much I love books where bad things happen to Elizabeth and Jessica gets to be awesome and bail her out. This is one of those times.


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Sweet Valley High # 87: My Best Friend’s Boyfriend

I would say that some ghostwriter saw The Truth About Cats and Dogs and got inspired, but this book came out four years before that movie. Must just be a coincidence, then.


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In honor of the Sweet Valley High rerelease, strangerface and I have an exciting announcement! Random House has sent us SWEET VALLEY TOTE BAGS. That's right. Those tote bags. And we didn't even have to give up our firstborn children. Check it:


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Sweet Valley High #52: White Lies

In which John Pfeifer is a selfish, cowardly asshole. Shocking, no? bttf4444 suggested I recap this one. It's really messed up.


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