And now for something more wholesome than blah-blah "news" about the former guy and other fascists... How about "Sweet Valley High"?

Title: My Erotic Awakening in the Pages of ‘Sweet Valley High’
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/03/opinion/sweet-valley-high-childhood-awakening.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AU4.Wb-f.R-8NU9ADj37P
(Non-paywalled link!)
#books #bookstodon #SweetValleyHigh

Francine Pascal, the creator of the "Sweet Valley High" teen series, has died at age 92. The first book about identical twins Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield was published in 1983, and 180 more were produced over the following 20 years, plus spin-off versions. Here's more from the CBC. Tell us in the comments if the series was memorable to you, and why.

https://flip.it/_Qx3GD

#SweetValleyHigh #FrancinePascal #YA #Books #InMemoriam #RIP @bookstodon

[article changed to one that referenced Francine Pascal's ghostwriting team]

Francine Pascal Dies: ‘Sweet Valley High’ Book Series Creator Was 92
#Books #News #Obituaries #FrancinePascal #Obituary #SweetValleyHigh

https://deadline.com/2024/07/francine-pascal-dead-1236026371/

Francine Pascal, ‘Sweet Valley High’ Creator, Dies at 92
#Variety #Global #News #SweetValleyHigh

https://variety.com/2024/tv/global/francine-pascal-dead-sweet-valley-high-creator-1236089816/

Sweet Vader High and other Hair Wars YA novels were popular with a hair-obsessed, mostly white demographic, apparently.

Through the lens of #dalle #aigenerated teenagers

#80snostalgia #sweetvalleyhigh #starwars #hairwars

Wrote about how bad/cheesy/just plain weird creativity shows that ChatGPT is very, very far from being able to replace human writers.

https://unsettlingfutures.substack.com/p/ninja-turtles-sweet-valley-high-and

#chatgpt #sweetvalleyhigh #tmnt #AI

Best friends.

Dynamic duos.

Sisters.

There are two sets of Twins in town. Liz and Jess are virtuous. Nora and Margo are vicious.

Meanwhile, the madness-haunted Dr. Frederick Edison seeks the essence of Good and Evil.

He has kidnapped one of each pair.

Now, one sister of Kindness and one of Cruelty must join forces infiltrate Edison's mansion, home to his strange family and bizarre experiments.

Enter the world of...

...THE SWEET VALLEY HEIST!

#SweetValleyHigh #ManiacMansion #LucasArts

Just found out about the #SweetValleyHigh books where the twins are stalked by evil twins identical to them.

The stalkers want to steal the stars' lives, but can't decide who gets who!

A: "I will destroy you and assume the place that should always have been mine!"

B: "*You'll* take her place? We talked about this. You get the other one."

A: "Sure, we talked. All you ever do is talk. If I'd kept talking to you about it, we'd never get around to destroying *anybody*."

#books #YA