This thread prompted me to do something I've been thinking about for a while - I ordered several used Christopher Pike books ('90s cover artwork, too!) on Amazon.
Arriving soon:
Road to Nowhere Spellbound Fall Into Darkness Whisper of Death Die Softly See You Later
My favorite (modern) YA of all time is Mirror of Danger (aka Come Back, Lucy) by Pamela Sykes (1974). Never getting rid of my copy.
I have the entire Sunfire series, all 32 books, including the rare #3, Elizabeth.
The pp reminds me of a friend talking about Norma Klein a while ago, I think I'm going to have to check some out.
I swear that one of the Sunfires, Nicole, is basically the source material for the movie Titanic.
I don't even remember that one, I could probably recall the plot of maybe a third of them if I'm lucky. The bigger/earlier ones were better than the shorter/later ones.
There was a book series about 3 au pairs and the shenanigans they got into. One flashy girl, one "boring" girl, one mysterious/exotic girl. I cannot remember the series name though.
There was a book series about 3 au pairs and the shenanigans they got into. One flashy girl, one "boring" girl, one mysterious/exotic girl. I cannot remember the series name though.
Hmm. Melissa de la Cruz had a series like that but I was already an adult when they came out so like 2004-ish?
Post by shananagins on Feb 21, 2019 23:29:36 GMT -5
Babysitters Club fans, there is a new graphic novel series out based on the original books. They stick pretty close to the original books from what I can remember and are really fun. I read the first four one afternoon at work.
I swear that one of the Sunfires, Nicole, is basically the source material for the movie Titanic.
I don't even remember that one, I could probably recall the plot of maybe a third of them if I'm lucky. The bigger/earlier ones were better than the shorter/later ones.
I had only two of them, which is probably why I still recall it. Nicole's widowed mom spends the last of their money on first class Titanic tickets with the hope that Nicole will meet a wealthy marriage prospect who can keep them in the lifestyle mom has become accustomed to. Nicole does indeed meet a rich suitor onboard but ends up falling in love instead with Karl, a Hungarian immigrant from the steerage class, much to mom's dismay.
There was a book series about 3 au pairs and the shenanigans they got into. One flashy girl, one "boring" girl, one mysterious/exotic girl. I cannot remember the series name though.
Hmm. Melissa de la Cruz had a series like that but I was already an adult when they came out so like 2004-ish?
I was in college in 2004 so it might have been a different series. Off to google! Eta: sunset island series. First published in 1991. Lol
Hmm. Melissa de la Cruz had a series like that but I was already an adult when they came out so like 2004-ish?
I was in college in 2004 so it might have been a different series. Off to google! Eta: sunset island series. First published in 1991. Lol
I read this/these! I can’t remember how many of them, so maybe it was just one book. But I remember one of them was a former dancer at Disney or something and they ended up being backup singers for a band...and I remember that because in middle school I thought that being a backup singer was THE career to aspire to.
I tried re-reading the Boxcar Children series awhile back, but couldn't get through the first one. They're so terribly written. lol
Has anyone read The Twenty-One Balloons (William Pene du Bois)? I loved that book and all the fun inventions in it. I should get that one from the library to re-read.
Babysitters Club fans, there is a new graphic novel series out based on the original books. They stick pretty close to the original books from what I can remember and are really fun. I read the first four one afternoon at work.
My 6 year old is obsessed with these. Her teacher and I squealed over them when I bought them because my daughter isn’t technically old enough for BSC and really I bought them for me. I keep laughing because my daughter wants everyone to be a Mary Ann when no one wanted to be a Mary Ann when I was younger.
speaking of books to movies, i loved the Hallmark version of The Secret Garden. I hated the big studio version. Does anyone else remember the one I am talking about?
speaking of books to movies, i loved the Hallmark version of The Secret Garden. I hated the big studio version. Does anyone else remember the one I am talking about?
speaking of books to movies, i loved the Hallmark version of The Secret Garden. I hated the big studio version. Does anyone else remember the one I am talking about?
OMG yes!! This is the BEST movie version of this story. I have it in DVD and my mom still has our original copy on VHS.
speaking of books to movies, i loved the Hallmark version of The Secret Garden. I hated the big studio version. Does anyone else remember the one I am talking about?
OMG yes!! This is the BEST movie version of this story. I have it in DVD and my mom still has our original copy on VHS.
The girl they cast was perfect and I can remember feeling a chill the first time she spies the door, when the wind picks up, blowing back the vines.
These books are um, a lot different than I remembered.
Really? In what way?
The kids and I recently listened to James and the Giant Peach. The aunts are way meaner and abusive than I remember. The situation was darker. I may have fastforwarded the audiobook through parts of it that I didn’t really want them to hear. I loved his books but they are definitely from their time period. I haven’t read the other ones recently.
Bookmarking this thread. I would totally be down for a BC of old-school YA fiction.
I was (am) a huge fan of SVH, the Sunfire Romance books, the pre-ghost writer VC Andrews (well, at least the Dollanganger and Casteel series and the totally effed up stand-alone My Sweet Audrina), the Satin Slippers series (about a budding ballerina), and too many others to count.
Does anyone remember Norma Klein? LOVED her books, but a few months back, I re-read one I still have (Love is One of the Choices) where Caroline, a senior in high school, develops a crush on her hot, married chemistry teacher, Justin (how sad is it that I still remember their names?) and he RETURNS her feelings. When I was in highschool, having a hot history teacher, I thought it was all kinds of amazing but now?
SKEEVY.
Even though she's 18 before they have sex, still...teacher/student...shudders.
And just for fun, here's the cover:
The teacher/student sex in this was mind blowing to me when I read it. Even then I remember thinking it was so so wrong.