Sweet Valley High has returned to bookstores today with a where-are-they-now sequel, Sweet Valley Confidential. Read the full post.
Mar 31
2011
01:45 PM ET
'Sweet Valley High' returns: Or, why nostalgia trumps taste
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Back when I was younger, we were having a community yard sale and my sister and I were sold our old books. All of our books except for the Sweet Valley and BSC books were fair game. I think they might still be in a box in my parents’ attic.
I will have to check this out, as I too was obsessed with these books in the 80s. I love the inside cover that has the original Double Love pictures of the girls. Another book I’m excited about is the continuation of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants when they are older.
I am downloading this book immediately.
These were some of my favorite books when I was middle school. By no means great literature just the perfect idolized high school experience that I couldn’t relate to but loved.
I totally loved the SVH books. And the SVTwins and SVUniversity!!! I use to wish I had a twin so we could have adventures just like them. I was so annoyed when my little sisters sold them at a garage sale when I went away to college! Ugh! Now I want to get everything all over again!
Sweet Valley High is back OMG!!! I have to run to a books store just to see if I could find some now…Its been a ages since I read one…all my collection was gone…now I will be very happy to collect again… I remember sitting on a library reading while my group making some book report…
loved this books….remember my self reading on a library SVH…
SVH got me reading again when I was 13. I owe my love of books to Francine Pascal, Jessica and especially Elizabeth. They were great friends once upon a time. I can’t wait to break the cover on this one!!!!
The books were educational, too. Before I read them I had no idea that a “lavaliere” was a “necklace” or what a Spider automobile was.
Totally agree. I remember once asking my parents what a Fiat was as well. And I was convinced that Sweet Valley and Costa Mesa were actual towns in California.
Ummm, Costa Mesa is an actual town in CA.
I wish Francine Pascal would contine Fearless. I miss Ed!
I’ll one up – I started with the Sweet Valley Twins book, and ‘grew up’ with them to SVH. (in the year or so I read them all in.) BSC, too. I can close my eyes and still see my pink room, covered completely with NKOTB cut outs from any possible magazine. I can’t decide if I’m horrified or amused anymore!
So fun! I read these books in Jr High. I was allowed to read SW twins, but SVH was a little risqué in my house. (I borrowed them from my friends.) I wonder if there’s a way to get a refresher course in SVH. The names are familiar but storylines are hard to remember. I’m glad to know I wasn’t alone in my love of BSC as well.
I’ve read the book, and it’s kinda weird that it’s set in present-day and not the nineties. I really love the cussing, which coupled with the sex (non graphic), is about the only reason this book seems any different at all from the original series. I was increadibly bummed that Todd Wilkins hadn’t died in some firey auto accident after college… and the sad things that happen to Winston as he’s quickly written off the SV universe. But I really enjoyed the book, it entirely brought me back to my childhood and I really hope there will be more to come.
I am still reading SVH and bsc,although I am way too old to read them,of course I read other, more adult books too.I was about 17, when i read my first Svh book I am rereading Jessicas ´Secret diary 3 now.I want to read Sweet valley Confidential, but I am worried, that ruins my Image of sweet valley and is not at all the way Iimagined it would in ten years later.