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!
― horseshoe, Sunday, 28 June 2009 21:55 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 28 June 2009 21:57 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― fistula pumping action (sarahel), Sunday, 28 June 2009 21:58 (fifteen years ago) link
paula danziger wrote books like that, sarahel!
― horseshoe, Sunday, 28 June 2009 21:59 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― harbl, Sunday, 28 June 2009 21:59 (fifteen years ago) link
http://jezebel.com/assets/resources/2008/02/catgreen022208.jpg
^^ Yes! Thanks!
― fistula pumping action (sarahel), Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:00 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― harbl, Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:00 (fifteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51N9SNK8SBL.jpg
this cover is wack, though
― horseshoe, Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:00 (fifteen years ago) link
i vividly remember thishttp://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n2/n11692.jpg
― harbl, Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:01 (fifteen years ago) link
looooool that is not really a "saying," r. l. stine!
― horseshoe, Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:02 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― fistula pumping action (sarahel), Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:02 (fifteen years ago) link
i forgot:
http://mrselderkinsclass.com/images/Basil_E_Frankweiler.jpg
A++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
― carpathian florist (roxymuzak), Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:06 (fifteen years ago) link
that is one of the best books ever tbh
― horseshoe, Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:07 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― carpathian florist (roxymuzak), Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:08 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― harbl, Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:10 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― horseshoe, Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:10 (fifteen years ago) link
also maryann was the only one in the club with a "steady boyfriend" (age 13)
― harbl, Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:11 (fifteen years ago) link
claudia kishi had some clothes
― horseshoe, Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:11 (fifteen years ago) link
i know i read all these high-quality YA books but i can only remember babysitters' club
― harbl, Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:12 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah stacey was diabetic
jessie was black
― horseshoe, Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:12 (fifteen years ago) link
yes, and stacey had curly blonde hair and was sliiightly chubby iirc?
claudia kishi!!!!
― carpathian florist (roxymuzak), Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:14 (fifteen years ago) link
was one supposed to be kind of the main one, the alpha girl, the standard?
if so was it kristy
― carpathian florist (roxymuzak), Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:15 (fifteen years ago) link
claudia kishi was the best one. she had, like, three-tiered socks!
xpost yeah that was kristy. she was a jock + bossy + the president
― horseshoe, Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:15 (fifteen years ago) link
i forgot about claudia and her wacky clothes, she was totally my favorite and i started stacking my socks to look like that too!!
― carpathian florist (roxymuzak), Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:16 (fifteen years ago) link
http://whatclaudiawore.blogspot.com/
― horseshoe, Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:16 (fifteen years ago) link
mary anne was shy and had glasses aka who cared about her, no one
"She always wears the trendiest outfits. For instance, at our last meeting she was wearing layers - a shocking-pink tunic over a white shirt with pink and yellow umbrellas printed on it. Over the tunic was a wide, low-slung yellow belt with a pink plastic buckle. The shirt, but not the tunic, was tucked into a pair of black knickers, and below the knickers were yellow stockings."
― horseshoe, Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:17 (fifteen years ago) link
"Same old Claud, I thought as we trudged up our front steps. Her hair was flowing down her back, pulled away from her face by a headband with a huge pink rose attached to it. She was wearing a long, oversized black-and-white sweater, skin-tight black leggings, pink-and-black socks, and black ballet slippers. Her jewelry was new, and I could tell she'd made it herself. You know those things about a best friend. Her necklace was a string of glazed beads that she'd probably made in her pottery class. And from her ears dangled an alarming number of plastic charms attached to gold hoops."
― horseshoe, Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:18 (fifteen years ago) link
so cooool
― carpathian florist (roxymuzak), Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:19 (fifteen years ago) link
dawn i always pictured being beautiful, didnt she fall in love with her own brother or something
It's her clothes that amaze me, though. (I think they amaze everyone.) Claud mixes and matches the weirdest stuff and comes up with the coolest outfits. Like a loose blouse with a fake coat of arms on it worn over a very short black skirt. Around her waist, a scarf. On her feet, short black boots. Dangling from her ears, dinosaurs. And her hair might be piled on top of her head and held in place with hairpins that look like seahorses. She combines all this stuff - and she looks fantastic."
^^Mary Ann's POV. i like how she's amazed by black boots. "get this, on her feet---BOOTS!"
― horseshoe, Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:20 (fifteen years ago) link
haha mary anne was younger though, she probably wore, like, keds
― carpathian florist (roxymuzak), Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:22 (fifteen years ago) link
wait i was thinking of mallory
and she had a really strict dad who wouldn't let her pierce her ears, i think.
xpost yeah mallory was younger, mary ann had a strict dad.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Totally stacked socks after reading bc!Xpost
Gah I can't keep up on fone :(
― tehresa, Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:23 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i15.ebayimg.com/01/i/000/c9/b6/d0c1_1.JPG
this is i think the one i loved
― carpathian florist (roxymuzak), Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:24 (fifteen years ago) link
hang up u call imo
3. Mary Anne's Big Break-up - Mary Anne decides to break up with Logan due to their growing incompatible interests and values.
hahha, namely that he was gay
― carpathian florist (roxymuzak), Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:25 (fifteen years ago) link
i am going to reread these
haha i totally wore cutoffs over black tights because of kishi on the cover of the new york special edition
― carpathian florist (roxymuzak), Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:27 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n31/n155634.jpg
some jealous hoes imo
― carpathian florist (roxymuzak), Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:28 (fifteen years ago) link
ha totally! they don't have old mary anne to kick around anymore.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:29 (fifteen years ago) link
sorry i got beautiful and stole u BFs bitches
― carpathian florist (roxymuzak), Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:29 (fifteen years ago) link
*quits babbysitters club
― carpathian florist (roxymuzak), Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:30 (fifteen years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YNT6kBPnhgg/SVL5yEZL9vI/AAAAAAAAALc/PM-2yuTtlZY/s400/claud.jpg
haha claudia being welcomed to womanhood imo
― carpathian florist (roxymuzak), Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:32 (fifteen years ago) link
oh good! i couldn't remember claudia having a boyfriend at any time and i was wondering wtf was wrong with those boys anway.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:34 (fifteen years ago) link
remember when dawn found a secret part of the underground railroad in her parents' house? also she moved to california for a while. i think they called it "sunny california"
― harbl, Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:42 (fifteen years ago) link