Below you'll find all my writing tagged with the word Sweet Valley High. The posts are listed in chronological order. Click the post title to read more.
It’s taken me over 72 hours to find the words to explain what happened on Thursday. Thursday started out like most any other day — peanut butter, apples, a little work, a little bit of “Roseanne.” But then the afternoon came and while trolling through the Google Reader I tripped over a link to Sweet [...]
First, you should know, I have a tag called inappropriately named electronics. Sometimes I surprise myself. Now, on with the show. I got my first computer sometime in the mid-90s. It was a Circuit City special HP and I think it cost something ridiculous like $1300. As soon as I brought it home and set [...]
When I first heard the news that Diablo Cody was going to write and produce a movie based on my beloved Sweet Valley High books I was incredulous. My first thought was, “if she turns Jessica into Juno, I’m gonna have to cut a bitch.” As Barrett so kindly pointed out on Facebook, Cody’s project [...]
Yesterday in the midst of cleaning the Fortress of Solitude I decided that after nearly fourteen years in hiding that my Sweet Valley High books should come of the dark and take their rightful place on a bookcase. It’s so deliciously nerdy. Every time I catch a glimpse of that shelf out of the corner [...]
A good part of nearly every Saturday of my childhood and early teenhood were spent at the Snyder’s Drug store in Blaine located in the little mall within walking distance of our house. Generally my sisters and our friends spent our money on 99-cent Wet n Wild lipsticks, Maxi-to-go eyeshadows, and $1 grabbags from the [...]
Sweet Valley High’s Fashion Face Lift. [via]
The Dairi Burger, wherein a 29-year-old woman rereads all her old Sweet Valley High books. The awesomeness is unquantifiable.
Last week, Sister #2 sent the sisterclub an e-mail telling us how she had to buy Jaycie her first stick of deoderant and that after they left Target they went to the library where Jaycie checked out the first Sweet Valley Twins book. While the rest of the stinkies e-mailed back and forth about inheriting [...]
kelly has asked me to take part in a fun little book meme. fun! how many books do you own? gee, by my best guess right now i have about 400 on the bookshelves. you can look at old pictures of my shelves from 2 years ago. plus theres the 100+ Sweet Valley High Books [...]
a few weeks ago my pal tim listed his five favorite fictional characters, now NPR has listed the 100 Best Fictional Characters Since 1900, because you are all dying to know what this tallbooknerdygirlie thinks, here’s my list of most memorable fictional characters from a book: 1.) Owen Meany 2.) Mickey Sabbath 3.) the narrator [...]
I fell in love with books at an early age. Allegedly my favorite book when I was three was “Goldilocks and the Three Bears.” I memorized it. Of course I say allegedly, because I don’t remember this. I think my book tastes developed normally. I fell in love with Beverly Cleary’s Ramona in grade school. [...]
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