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Any Sweet Valley Fans Out There?
Did any of you spend your teen years obsessing about the Wakefield twins? Because I did! I was a massive fan of the Sweet Valley series - Sweet Valley Kids, Sweet Valley Twins, Sweet Valley High, Sweet Valley University - I loved them all!
The first book I read was Power Play and I was addicted from that moment on. I was thrilled when my library got the latest Sweet Valley book in, and was always borrowing them from my friends. Oh, and at school we used to discuss the characters as though they were real people. We were obsessed all right! Over the years, I've built up a small collection of books which I still have at home. Sweet Valley High was definitely a big part of my teen years.
Although I now know it's not necessarily true for every American teenager, but I'd read Sweet Valley High books…
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Any Fans Of The Roommates Series?
Does anyone remember a book series aimed at teens called Roommates? The books were written by Susan Blake and Alison Blair, and it had the tagline, "College life the way it really is." I believe there were twenty books in this series but I only read perhaps two or three, with the first one I read called Final Exams. I enjoyed these books and wish I'd read more but I'm guessing this series wasn't very popular in the UK which is why it wasn't so easy to come across them.
This series dealt with some pretty heavy topics: eating disorders, contraception, depression, suicide... and that's just from the books I've read so goodness knows what topics the others dealt with! Not really selling college life here! But it really was a good, thought-provoking read.
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DonnaBella
Jan 10, 2022
I remember reading one of the books in the Roommates series but I can't remember which one. I know that I enjoyed it and wouldn't of minded reading more but it wasn't very well known back in Britain, unlike Sweet valley High which was very well read among the kids I went to school with, so getting hold of the books wasn't always easy.
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Some good points raised, Judy. I think with Jessica, she was just your average spoilt, bratty teen. I don't think her parents thought there was anything seriously wrong with her behaviour and probably thought she'd just grow out of it. But I'd be horrified if my own daughter behaved like Jessica.
As for the feminist aspect, well who's to say that the Wakefield girls weren't feminists? Mrs. Wakefield raised them to follow their own paths without either parent imposing their ways on the twins. Just because Jessica's life revolved around boys and make-up didn't necessarily not make her a feminist!