My first recap in lots of years.  Hope I'm not too rusty at it!  This is the final book in the second SVU lifeguard trilogy, in which Jessica, Elizabeth, Nina, and Winston have wacky adventures on the beach during a summer vacation that exists in some kind of alternate dimension to the regular SVU series. The first book, Beauty and the Beach, has ( Read more... )

So guess what, you guys? Jessica and Elizabeth are starting their sophomore year at SVU, despite the fact that there have been four summers since the damn series began. Yes, four summers. That's not my fancy, facetious way of saying that SVU went on  too long. There are literally four miniseries that specifically take place during summer. And a ( Read more... )

Truth be told, I went to retrieve this book from my local op shop for one reason and one reason only: I had to know how the ghostwriter was going to sum up the, er, events of the last book. I mean, Tom showed his undercarriage to a stadium full of unsuspecting Chicagoans, and I could simply not live another day without knowing how they were going ( Read more... )

So this book is the second in the Road Trip miniseries, which sees the Wakefields join an Amazing Race-style televised competition across America in Winnebagos full of college students from all corners of the country. This is the miniseries that introduces us to Liz's new love interest/worst enemy Sam Burgess, and also Jessica's fabulous gay best ( Read more... )

100% brutal honesty: this post happened by accident. It happened because I got drunk with some friends and we watched The Breakfast Club. Watching The Breakfast Club (which takes place almost entirely in a school library) made me think of that One Tree Hill episode where Jimmy shot up the school and Peyton and Lucas hid in the library. Thinking of ( Read more... )

Today's episode comes from season four, and you know why? Because it's one of the many episodes to come that are based on my personal favourite SVH book miniseries, the  Betrayal collection with the Sweet Valley/Palisades brouhaha. Or as I like to call it, the Let's Call Each Other Absurd Names, Beat The Crap Out Of Everyone And Then Die From A Pool ( Read more... )

So I'm going to be doing Meet Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield, which is sort of a SV sampler type book. It's alternately narrated by Elizabeth and Jessica and spans the four basic SV series(es?): Sweet Valley Kids, Twins, High, and University. Loved the hell out of this one as a kid for the same kind of reasons I loved lining up SVK, SVT, SVH, and ( Read more... )

I've had this book for years but have never read it for some reason. I actually brought it to work with me, because Tuesdays are a particularly slow day where I work, and I have this nice little plan to start a classic novel every Tuesday. At some point, it went from "classic novel" to "just any book" to "pages with words on them," so that's how I ( Read more... )

Alright, here it is. The detailled, in-depth recap of SVC we've been waiting for. It took me forever to finish this, because the book is really long and the tenses and POVs jump all over the freaking place. (I've put the flashback parts in a different colour, just to make things easier.) Because the book is long and hard to follow, the recap might ( Read more... )

Ahhh, this is the one where Will get's crushed, I mean literally, crushed. It's awesome. I'm just tickled when bad things happen to Will and Melissa.

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