An 8 year old's obsession with Jessica and Elizabeth
Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 10:21PM 
I think it was 3rd or 4th grade when I was introduced to the Sweet Valley High series. I remember reading that first book and being instantly obsessed. Desperately wishing I had an identical twin and wishing that I lived someplace as cool as Sweet Valley and since it was the height of the teen-driven 80's, wish SO BAD that I was in High School and drove a Fiat. I actually may go as far as credit my love of reading to this series. I do believe that they were the first books that I seriously DEVOURED - sit all day reading type thing. I even remember doing a book report on one of them using my Barbies as the twins in my 3-D diorama.
Now, these books have been updated to be more "relevant" to teens of today. Sigh, somehow its not that same if Elizabeth keeps a MySpace page instead of her diary..
But one question. Am I totally lame if I read the new versions.. just for old time's sake? I've totally held off on buying the Gossip Girl series! At least SVH has that special place in my heart.
Insanity 
Reader Comments (6)
OMG!! Just had a flasback to listening to wham! and reading SVH books. If you read them, you have to let us know!
i loved them! and babysitters club...funny they are being updated!
Ohmigod! I loved that series too. I loved the pencil drawings on the old covers - remember? Anyway, I few months ago I bought a bunch of the old books off EBAY for my niece and she devoured them, too. I love that these books do that with girls. I so wanted to live in CA! Anyway, now I think I might have to check out the new series - I can always tell the hubs it's research so I can chat with the niece, huh?
I wanted a twin with a match lavalier so badly!!
Loved Sweet Valley High! Also the Cheerleaders series! I now feel really old with them "updating" them.
You realize that the more this gets discussed, the more I feel the need to read them? I read mine until they fell apart.