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Sweet dreams and sweet valley high

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mrmump · 08/12/2009 16:00

i spent my early teenage years reading these. i honestly believed dating and falling in love would be as twee as in the sweet Dreams stories. Does anyone else remember them and why aren't they popular today?

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DLI · 08/12/2009 18:08

i loved sweet valley high, me and my friends all read them. not sure if i read sweet dreams

Lifeinagoldfishbowl · 08/12/2009 18:10

I loved Sweet Valley high and also Babysitters club Life was so easy wasn't it and everything seemed to resolve itself within 90 pages or so.

DLI · 08/12/2009 18:22

babysitters club, had forgotten about those, teenagers nowadays don't know what they are missing out on. i think schools need to do more to encourage reading.

HohohoBumperlicious · 08/12/2009 18:42

Erm, I just bought 10 SVH books at a Christmas fair last Saturday for 20p each . Can't wait to reread them!

Mistletoesnowman · 08/12/2009 18:45

I'd forgotten all about them but I loved collecting them. Loved the front covers and the names of some of the girls (had never heard of the name Meredith until I read these books)!

SecretSlattern · 08/12/2009 18:47

I loved SVH as a teen but it was soon ruined when they put it on the telly

HohohoBumperlicious · 08/12/2009 18:54

My daughter is named after a key character in SVH - well, not named after, I'm not that sad but I remembered the name when I was pg and liked it, despite the character being a spoilt bitch! The one beginning with 'L' (don't say it though!)

nighbynight · 08/12/2009 18:55

Bumper, you are not alone - I bought one at a booksale recently.
I was just too old for them, but in my late teens, used to read bits of them in the bookshops - they were a new genre then, so seemed like the literary equivalent of pink candyfloss.

SmoothCriminal · 10/12/2009 09:57

Oh I read them all. I'd get three new ones from the library every fortnght. I also loved babysitters club and Point Horror.

PurpleEglu · 10/12/2009 09:59

I loved those books when I was younger. Would love to read them again

nikki1978 · 11/12/2009 15:16

I was a huge SVH fan. I had everyt single book up until abot 110 or something then I lost interest due to the teenage years etc. Kept them all for ages then for some mad reason I sold the lot for £20 at a car boot sale a few years ago. Should have kept them for DD really

Aren't they popular anymore? What do teenage girls read nowadays anyway?

kittykate · 31/12/2009 20:15

Twilight I think!

I read so many SVH and Sweet Dreams. Loved them ...!

WorrisomeHeart · 31/12/2009 20:20

Oh I had completely forgotten about Point Horrors and Sweet Dreams! I used to devour those books in single sittings, loved them. Life was so much simpler when all you had to do was have a snowball fight with your older brothers best friend, then wait for him to ask you to the prom ...

GibbonInARibbon · 31/12/2009 20:24

Oh yes SVH...what was that other book called? Was a rite of passage to read it? SVH but a tad racier.

kittykate · 31/12/2009 20:28

FOREVER by Judy Blume? Also ARE YOU THERE GOD, IT'S ME MARGARET ...

GibbonInARibbon · 31/12/2009 20:31

Forever! Thank you kitty, I was going half mad here trying to remember

kittykate · 31/12/2009 20:38

I so loved those books. Read over 100 Sweet Dreams and about 30 SVH, all the Judy Blumes, then those brilliant short Jilly Coopers (Constance, Prudence, Octavia etc) before moving on to Judith Krantz and SCRUPLES. Hooray for trashy teenage reading!

WorrisomeHeart · 31/12/2009 20:49

Brilliant!! Am having mega teenage flashbacks now, and may have to find a secondhand book shop that will be open on NY day so I can stand in the corner speedreading Octavia - we had a copy which was bright pink with a trahy 80's chick on the front, i thought she was so cool!

Don't think I ever read Judith Krantz, but how about Charlotte Vale Allen?

nymphadora · 31/12/2009 21:06

Dd1 is reading sweet valley twins atm

satc2bringiton · 02/01/2010 10:18

Oh god I loved SVH and SD books, must of read at least 50 altogether in my teens.

I remember my parents to me (14) and my sister to Florida for the 1st time (they saved for ages) and I was only interested in reading my SVH books

They are the books that got me into a life-love of books / reading though.

JaneS · 03/01/2010 15:12

Oh, I loved these books! My mum forbade them and would have been shocked at the amount I managed to get from the mobile library and read during silent reading hour. I think it's when I really learnt to speed-read.

I think I enjoyed them most because they were banned by mum, you know? Mind you, she was right to disapprove because I still love the crappy chick lit

(Btw, you know how it always reminds you that Elizabeth and Jessica were perfect size 10s? I vividly remember feeling shocked when I realized that was a UK size 14! How very unfeminist of me ...)

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