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[sticky post] Admin: Recap List [Jan. 22nd, 2013|09:56 pm]

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I would like to find a new place to host the list of completed recaps because ours is now too long for LiveJournal, and we can't add to it. I was making additions on the website for a time, but that's gone now too.

Books that have not been recapped are just numbers, have not been done (To save space, since LJ has a limit, I removed the TV and misc recaps--they can still be found in our profile--and I have stopped linking additional recaps of the same books.)

Please let me know if I am missing any recaps you've done or read!

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SVU #51: Living Together [Apr. 24th, 2013|10:42 pm]

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So guess what, you guys? Jessica and Elizabeth are starting their sophomore year at SVU, despite the fact that there have been four summers since the damn series began. Yes, four summers. That's not my fancy, facetious way of saying that SVU went on  too long. There are literally four miniseries that specifically take place during summer. And a thriller edition that took place at the very end of one of the summers, but not the latest summer, because Jess was still living at the Theta house. Who knows, it could've even been a fifth summer!


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I like this cover. Jessica looks strangely like one of those overly made-up toddlers whose horrid mothers enter them in beauty pageants.  Liz looks hawt and not particularly toddler-like.

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Cover Model [Apr. 10th, 2013|07:35 pm]

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I had been looking through many of the SVT covers posted here, and I kept staring at the Wakefield twins, because I realized that I knew the model. Then I remembered that I went to high school with a girl named Kim Matulova, who was a couple of grades under me - and that she was the model. I'm proud of her! She's been modeling since middle school; we all knew she would do extremely well. So now I'm hoping to get my hands on the books that feature her on the cover.

These are some images I found via Google that most closely matches how she looks on the covers:







It's been a few years, but I'm glad I recognized her. She was always very good at "fluid" poses, like the ones for the Sweet Valley books.
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Sweet Valley Kids Super Snooper #3: The Case of the Haunted Camp [Apr. 7th, 2013|09:06 pm]

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I went to a library sale today and you'll never guess what gem I found. Please imagine that I am Barney in this gif and you are the gang:



IT'S SUPER SNOOPER THREE, Y'ALL!

But, wait. Maybe you're new to the community and you don't know what a "Super Snooper" is. Well, remember how SVH and SVT had random mystery books that often got weird?

The "Super Snooper" is the junior version of that. So the cases have to be even dumber and the parents have to be even more clueless. It is amazing. Once there was an alien princess, I kid you not. And often Santa is involved. (Yeah, apparently Santa loses shit left and right in Sweet Valley.)

Alas, this one doesn't have aliens or santa. It is a ghost story. The Case of the Haunted Camp. Insert spooky sound effects here!

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SVH Nails! [Mar. 17th, 2013|11:23 am]

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A wonderful, smart, creative Etsy user has made Sweet Valley High nail decals. So you can give Suzanne Devlin the middle finger!



I really think everyone should buy them!
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Tales of a Ghost Writer [Feb. 26th, 2013|09:48 pm]

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There's an article in the Kenyon Review by one of the ghostwriters of Sweet Valley High (Amy Boesky, author of What We Have).

My favorite part is when she admits she didn't know what a lavaliere was.

I would love to know what she thinks of "Rags to Riches" upon rereading it!
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Todd Wilkins on the new All My Children? [Feb. 25th, 2013|06:22 pm]

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"Ryan Bittle has been cast as JR Chandler in All My Children's Internet revival. Bittle previously appeared as Logan on AMC in 2010. JR was last portrayed by Jacob Young."
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"Bittle, meanwhile, joins All My Children with experience in several soapy primetime programs, including Buffy: The Vampier Slayer, Dawson's Creek, 7th Heaven, and Sweet Valley High. "

http://soapcentral.com/amc/news/2013/0225-bittle.php

I've not watched All My Children. Does JR frequently hit people?
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SVU #50: Summer of Love [Feb. 12th, 2013|02:30 pm]

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Truth be told, I went to retrieve this book from my local op shop for one reason and one reason only: I had to know how the ghostwriter was going to sum up the, er, events of the last book. I mean, Tom showed his undercarriage to a stadium full of unsuspecting Chicagoans, and I could simply not live another day without knowing how they were going to explain what they made him do. Spoiler: they don't explain, at all. Instead of rehashing all the crazy shit Tom did last time, they decided to just make him do more crazy shit in this one.

The thing that really pushed me over the edge is the blurb for the C plot: "Tom Watts and Todd Wilkins -- best buddies? Absolutely!" Read into that: Tom and Todd, the untapped comedy resource of the century, will be buddy-vibin' again in this book! Sold, Francine. Sold.


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That's Liz and (presumably) Sam frolicking up there on the cover. Bonus fact: I Googled Sam's Secret Love Diary to see whether or not they used the same cover model for both, and noticed in the image search that the picture they use for Jessica on her Love Diary is from this shoot. Having recapped a ridiculous amount of TV episodes, I'm an expert at telling the Daniel twins apart (also, they're not identical), and I've no doubt that it's Cynthia Daniel up there...which means that they put a picture of Elizabeth on the front cover of Jessica's Love Diary. Talk about a spotlight-hog.

Bonus fact #2: I went to the 1bruce1 recap of Jessica's Secret Love Diary to see if anyone else noticed, and apparently this is information I already knew:

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Weird. The Ghost of Hellobrisvegas Past would be terribly upset that I don't listen when she talks. Or even types.

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Anyone in LA? [Feb. 10th, 2013|05:30 pm]

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I read this article in The Atlantic about a young adult literature themed art show in LA. Apparently some of the art is Sweet Valley inspired.

The show runs until Feb 23 (which is my birthday, in case you want to get me anything) at 7020 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90038. Open Wed - Sun: 11 AM - 6 PM.

Can anyone go and report back?

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Don't eat meat, but she sure like the bone [Feb. 8th, 2013|07:19 pm]

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As someone who is both snarky and a vegetarian (a snark-a-tarian?) I am always amused by the portrayals of vegetarian characters in 80's and 90's YA Lit- I'm looking at you, Dawn Schafer!  Of course, they also made the Wakefield twins vegetarian in the SVH sitcom, which fans didn't care for, as it was yet another way in which the show deviated from the book series.  Which led me to think:  What if, for one book, they actually were veg?  The foolishness under the cut is what I think would happen.

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