SVH Super Edition: Winter Carnival

[hellobrisvegas]

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

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[etinterrapax]

No, no, the most unbelievable thing is that there's someone at SVH, who is reputedly a huge gossip, who doesn't know the twins all that well.

I actually remember reading this when it was first published. And I liked it. I wasn't even suffering from a head injury or anything. Not before I read it, at any rate.

[nicolars]

I remember reading (and liking) this when it was first published too, now it sounds unbelievably dumb and irritating even by SVH standards.

[posh_tas]

Oh - me too!!! Loved it when it first came out! Now it doesn't seem so clever.

[hellobrisvegas]

Sorry to spoil all your fond memories! I think I'd have liked this book a lot better if all of this crap had at least happened while they were in the mountains.

[versipellis]

Hey, at my university we had a winter dance called the Snow Ball. It's really not that bad.

Also, WHY DID LIZ NOT JUST GO ON HER DATE AND BE ALL "*shrug* it's not my turn to make the salad"? WHY?! And WHY does she continue to trust Jessica with anything, at all, ever?

And seriously, a week-long dream sequence? That is cheap.

[kakeochi_umai]

Also, WHY DID LIZ NOT JUST GO ON HER DATE AND BE ALL "*shrug* it's not my turn to make the salad"? WHY?!

THIS. It's really not rocket science.

[hellobrisvegas]

Also, WHY DID LIZ NOT JUST GO ON HER DATE AND BE ALL "*shrug* it's not my turn to make the salad"?
Because she's Saint Elizabeth of Sweet Valley. Martyrdom calls, and Liz answers.

[versipellis]

*headslap* MY MISTAKE.

[mocha_latta]

Maybe Enid thinks that the dance being called Snow Ball if funny because in some vernaculars, it means a cocaine party, or another term for a speedball, which... Enid would know about, wouldn't she?

[hellobrisvegas]

I actually thought of this, but then I remembered that it's Enid. And this is Sweet Valley. Cocaine doesn't exist there for another few books.

[esc_key]

SVH books totally count as "classic" novels. I deem it so.

[kakeochi_umai]

Yeah, if anyone tries to tell you that magical vodka and Crazy Margo aren't classic, send 'em here!

[hellobrisvegas]

Funny you should metion magical vodka specifically, because the Tuesday before, I'd brought A Night To Remember to work with me...

[kakeochi_umai]

Because...making salad is such a time-consuming activity? She can't do that and make her date with Jeffrey? It's an effing salad, Liz, not duck a l'orange.
Hell, making a salad in our house consists of "put lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, dressings etc. on the kitchen counter then tell everyone to grab what they want." And, I mean, it's not like Ned and Alice are even telling Elizabeth to do Jessica's chores for her. It's not like Mallorella where Mallory couldn't sit down for five minutes without her parents demanding that she wipe her siblings' asses for them. Elizabeth's just being a martyr for no good reason.

which is totally possible because Todd Wilkins always takes the high road. As long as that high road leads into Punchy Town.
HA!

On Border Security the other day, they showed a coyote skin that someone had shipped to Australia. I'm thinking I know what happened to those attack coyotes after they'd served their purpose.

Also, this book belongs in this video.

Jeffrey and Jessica are there, I guess just watching her sleep?

[nearthosy]

Jeffrey and Jessica are there, I guess just watching her sleep? That's normal.
-Jeffrey is Edward Cullen?

OH GOD NO. Bite your tongue!

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I quite enjoyed this recap. Especially that line pointing out Alice buying something for Jessica and not Liz. For pete's sake, Alice, you've had twins HOW long? Did the terrible twos/threes stage not drill it into you that buying stuff only for one is unfair? I have twin nieces, aged 5, and they were fighting over stuff at like a year and a half. Even if the twins are 16 now and a little above fighting over things, she should at least have recognized Liz's less out-there personality and bought her a bookmark or a purse or SOMETHING rather than rubbing Jess's suit in her face.

[hellobrisvegas]

^THIS.

I especially love how Alice comes home and excitedly shows Liz the ski suit that she bought for Jess, talking about how wonderful it is, and then just sort of shrugs and is all, "Oh, they didn't have anything for you." I used to get pissed when my mother bought stuff for my brother and not me, too, and we're not even twins.

[kakeochi_umai]

Yeah, especially as Jess already wheedles more allowance/credit card use/etc. out of Nalice while also doing a tiny fraction of what Liz does around the house. So I'd find that ski suit thing pretty galling if I were in Liz's shoes too.