just when you thought it was safe to read my LJ... it's another Twilight post
Instead of the writing binge I'd hoped to start, apparently I'm on an organizing binge, though now I'm working on the computer rather than the CD pile. This has been on my hard drive for a while. At one point I said I'd make another post about Twilight and my religion before the next movie came out. Uh... does posting this before the third movie
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Really. Seems odd to me now but then I just accepted it was like a public library. I had read a lot of what the school library had so I tried these. I remember being bored and thinking, "Why not?"
And I've thought I could write that as well.
Hey, could help you pay your mortgage. :-) I'm just sayin'. And you might write better stories too. In fact, I know you would.
Yes, I remember that as well!
Yeah, I don't know what was up with that. In hindsight and after I moved on to bigger and more flowery explicit romance novels (HP being my gateway into romance novels) I realize I was glad that the stories had been so vague. It was was I was ready for at that age and I wonder if they did that on purpose. But times have changed at HP, I suppose.
I don't remember Loveswept. I didn't think about misogyny in the novels back then, of course. I still think that Sweet Valley High was more fail for me than Harlequin Presents. Harlequin Presents were usually about adult British women far away in the UK. In the U.S. I was a young girl trying to identify with Jessica or Elizabeth Wakefield or other young teens on the covers of Wildfire YA novels or other YA series books. There was so much wrong with the formulas of those novels and I was young enough to think that life out there was supposed to be like in those books. And those were books directly were directly marketed to young girls. I really think they were really, really wrong in a lot of ways. Now I just read snark about the twins on Sweet Valley Diaries. (The site is down at the moment but will be back.) The reviewer describes the novels' fail much than I ever could and she's funny to boot. :-)
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No, me neither. I was just automatically more drawn to the option that had the women doing more exciting things.
I never read the Sweet Valley books--not a single one. I much preferred dragons and stuff to 'realistic' fiction, unless it was funny.
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