How Sweet Valley Affected My Childhood

[laurakate1986]

 Hey everyone! The alternate title for this entry is "How Sweet Valley Ruined Affected My Childhood."
My apologies that it's not a recap! But hey, with SV Confidential so close to coming out (51 days!) I thought some more reminiscing was in order.
First let me tell you a little about myself - I started reading Sweet Valley books at the tender age of

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[jedinic]

What a fun post! I really enjoyed reading it (and now I want to know more about the Unicorn club!)

PS: You forgot to do a lj - cut on this.

[katienat]

This entry is awesome. My mom was so suspicious of the SVH books, she thought they were so scandalous. SVH made me want to live near the beach, change my name to/pretty much be Lila, and have an annoying yet hilarious and protective older brother.

[myfavouritescar]

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Can I nominate this post for some kind of award?

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The last photo is amazing.

[lillysghost]

OH EM GEE this post is 137 kinds of awesome!...i think that number was used by jess in conversation all the time - can't remember any examples right now. i so remember being disappointed when i turned 16 and life didn't suddenly become awesome. i remember my mum would buy me sweet valley twin's books when i was about 8 or 9 but my dad thought i was to young...obviously he never read them lol. i bet even the kids from seventh heaven thought the kids from sweet valley middle school were sickeningly wholesome!!! i also started a unicorn club but i don't think it lasted very long! and because we had uniforms we found it pretty hard to wear purple every day, i think there were a lot of girl's in purple socks and purple hair scrunchies (don't judge me for my scrunchies...it WAS the 80's after all!) i know there's more but im pretty sure my brain has repressed it...

[imakittiecat]

My parents never bought me the SVH books... I think they just figured I had no interest in them, when at 12 I was sitting on the floor in my room reading IT by Stephen King.. (appropriate reading material what? huh? where?)

[lillysghost]

Haha i remember the first time i read a Carrie was in 6th grade, the teacher gave me strange looks for about a week before suggesting i finish it at home and bring " a more appropriate book" to school. So I took it home and the next day brought in Murder on The Line....thinking i was hell defiant for bringing another "scary" book. yeah i don't know how i put those two into the same category either...hey i was eleven, back then Flowers In The Attic was a work of staggering brilliance, with Virginia Andrews held in higher regard than Shakespeare (which i was also reading...wow my reading habits really WERE all over the place...still kinda are actually.)

[imakittiecat]

i read flowers in the attic when i was 9, and I still read it every year haha.