Buffy ,'Chosen'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I'll be 42 in January. Holy crap.
Same here. They started publishing in 84, so we were 15. Totally in the sweet spot (NPI). I was reading up, down, left, right and centre. Whatever I could get my hands on. I read Emmanuelle at the same time I was reading Nancy Drew, and years before SVH.
By the time I was 15 I was pretty much on a diet of straight SFF.
The Wakefields are aliens. Don't doubt that.
I'm 40 next week (eep) and they definitely weren't on my radar until I was past the age range (even if I had been reading appropriately to my age range).
By the time I was 15 I was pretty much on a diet of straight SFF.
Yeah, when the Sweet Valley High books were big I was reading about wars and group marriages in Heinlein books. (43, as of yesterday)
I'm 43 and I completely missed them. I feel old and square for loving and holding dear my Trixie Belden series, with a side of the Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, and Hardy Boys.
I also ready all the Perry Mason and Dorothy Sayers books voraciously.
Dana Girls Mysteries. I should try to find editions of the ones available when I was a kid, because they're a series that gets rewritten for each generation. Oh, how I wanted a spiffy roadster.
I was reading Agatha Christie and books with sex in them.
I totally read this wrong.
Never heard of Sweet Valley High, but definitely read most of the Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, and Encyclopedia Brown books.
Bizarrely, Flowers and the Attic et al came up during my last book salon (Russian authors).
I can't believe I was soaking myself in more teen Americana than you guys were, and I wasn't even living here. But you read what you can get when you're summering in someone else's house.
I read tons of Sweet Valley High. This even included Sweet Valley Saga, the series that traced their family through American history. There were flappers, and people in the San Francisco earthquake, and bootleggers, and some pioneers, and I don't remember who else. Probably some WWII stories. And their mother's ancestors and their father's ancestors kept meeting and falling in love and then being driven apart by tragic fate, until finally, their mother and father met at Berkeley in the sixties, or something like that.
I also had the Sweet Valley High board game.