no boys allowed in the room!!!!

I just always felt smarter/superior bc I didn't have to work as hard lol.

yeah i think that is probably related! also, harbl you seem v accomplished, especially for someone who is five years old!

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I just always felt smarter/superior bc I didn't have to work as hard lol.

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i kind of have swings of this sometimes, it goes back and forth but i think they reinforce each other

like when people say "aren't you gonna study" and i'm thinking fuck that who cares and then i do fine and i subsequently feel like an impostor

yeah, i think the apologizing thing, at least when i do it, is a mix of superiority and insecurity. the superiority comes from secretly knowing that you're not as dumb/insecure as you've made yourself sound by apologizing.

girls only thread causing me to overshare.

I never really feel impostory but sometimes I would get pissed off if someone I thought was dumb or had stupid ideas/projects got a better grade than I did even if they put more time into it which I guess is silly but maybe not because more time spent on a project does not necessarily mean better quality but whatever that's life I guess.
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people i think are dumb often get better grades than me but that's what happens when you think everyone is dumb

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I just always felt smarter/superior bc I didn't have to work as hard lol.

that was me, too ... until I got to college.

i felt smarter for other reasons

i think i thought i had extrasensory perception or something

(read too much "girl with the silver eyes")

omg that book!

did you love it?????????????

books

girl with the silver eyes +
karen kepplewhite is the worlds best kisser +
all rl stine and christopher pike trash +
otis spofford et al +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

actually cant think of any stupid YA book that i didnt like at least somewhat

argh i can't find the cover from my old copy on GIS, but even just the cover is super-evocative.

xpost it obsessed me! so scary/awesome!

karen kepplewhite is a fave!

girl with the silver eyes +
karen kepplewhite is the world best kisser +
rl stine = chris pike +++++
is otis spofford one of the beverly cleary characters?

i wonder which cover you had. i have a collection of different editions lol.

i had this one:

http://logan.com/loganberry/solved-girlsilvereyes.jpg

im so glad you knew karen kepplewhite

yes! otis spofford was the redhead who lived in the shitty apartments, the "working class" one. he was probably my favorite though i loved them all. he loved ellen tebbits and so did i

the one i had was all blue + purple and the "girl" on the front barely looks human? spooky.

xpost oh ellen tebbits! loved her! some cleary books i loved, but some have not stuck with me.

when I was in 4th grade my favorite books were Harriet the Spy and The Spy's Guidebook ... I figured that utilizing the professional techniques described in the latter book that I wouldn't get caught like Harriet did. In actuality, no one really paid any attention whatsoever.

harriet the spy got me into tomato sandwiches.

+ is a great book.

How do you guys feel about sweet valley high and the babysitters club?

i definitely loved them in fourth grade; SVH in particular--so racy! though i have tried to reread the babysitter's club when a mood for YA fiction comes on me a couple times and those books are so boring!

the beginning of all those SVH books is weirdly mesmerizing, with the details of how Jessica and Elizabeth have identical dimples and identical lavalieres that were given to them on their sixteenth birthday. i was never clear on what a lavaliere was.

I know what a lavalier microphone is. It's the kind that clips onto your collar.

All the YA novels I read made me want to live in NYC - those girls were always going to museums, and literary circles, and doing investigative reporting or something exciting, and had cool boys that liked them even if they were pudgy and plain. For the life of me, I can't remember a single title, but I want to say they were all from the 70s.

paula danziger wrote books like that, sarahel!

yeah i read like a hundred babysitters club books and i always skipped chapter 2 because it was exactly the same in every book. not sure what i got out of them at all--they were mega boring. sweet valley high were better i guess but i don't remember them.

http://jezebel.com/assets/resources/2008/02/catgreen022208.jpg

^^ Yes! Thanks!

though i wanted to read what boys were reading in 4th-5th grade so i read goosebumps more, even though my teachers hated them for some reason

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51N9SNK8SBL.jpg

this cover is wack, though

i vividly remember this
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n2/n11692.jpg

looooool that is not really a "saying," r. l. stine!

xp harbl - I got in a fight with my bff at one point because I liked boys' sci-fi stuff and she liked Anne McCaffrey girly dragon sci-fi stuff, that just seemed to me like the girls-with-horses genre but translated into sci-fi/fantasy. Our relationship never completely recovered after that, though we're now pretty good friends on facebook.

i forgot:

http://mrselderkinsclass.com/images/Basil_E_Frankweiler.jpg

A++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

that is one of the best books ever tbh

i was into SVH for sure, but it was a completely voyeuristic thing, like look at these girls who have everything i'll never have and who are completely perfect and enviable but essentially unrealistic

babysitters club were trash but i read all of them anyway! i remember one of the special edition ones (double thick) that was about going away to camp that i liked in particular. they hiked and stuff throughout, maybe thats why i liked it.

ive got to reread it!!! xpost

i remember that one and the one about winter vacation that was really thick. i dropped it in the bathtub.

i am about to go find my copy because i'm trying to remember a scene where claudia gives jamie a list of instructions for their plan to runaway and he reads it and then eats it! because he "likes complications," i think? <3 <3 <3

also maryann was the only one in the club with a "steady boyfriend" (age 13)

claudia kishi had some clothes

i know i read all these high-quality YA books but i can only remember babysitters' club

yeah stacey was diabetic

jessie was black

yes, and stacey had curly blonde hair and was sliiightly chubby iirc?

claudia kishi!!!!

was one supposed to be kind of the main one, the alpha girl, the standard?

if so was it kristy

claudia kishi was the best one. she had, like, three-tiered socks!

xpost yeah that was kristy. she was a jock + bossy + the president

i forgot about claudia and her wacky clothes, she was totally my favorite and i started stacking my socks to look like that too!!

http://whatclaudiawore.blogspot.com/