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The theme for last week's media consumption: nostalgia. I enjoyed all flavors of Sweet Valley when I was a kid/teenager, and while Sweet Valley Twins was my favorite series, I had the first few Unicorn Club books and adored them. I thought it was my favorite, but in the reading I've been doing I have discovered that actually I just had the ones that were really good.

Also, whenever I return to Sweet Valley in these last few years I think how fun SVH-era Jessica would be to RP.

(Also also, have a cracky crossover OTP: if you don't ship Jessica Wakefield/Sebastian Moran by the end of this sentence, you are wrong.)



Week of March 4:

Books/Short Stories:

The Unicorn Club #1: Save the Unicorns!, Alice Nicole Johansson (created by Francine Pascal)
The Unicorn Club #2: Maria's Movie Comeback, Alice Nicole Johansson (created by Francine Pascal)
"The Lottery," Shirley Jackson
"The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas," Ursula K LeGuin
The Unicorn Club #3: The Best Friend Game, Alice Nicole Johansson (created by Francine Pascal)
The Unicorn Club #4: Lila's Little Sister, Alice Nicole Johansson (created by Francine Pascal)
The Unicorn Club #5: Unicorns in Love, Alice Nicole Johansson (created by Francine Pascal)
The Unicorn Club #6: The Unicorns at War, Alice Nicole Johansson (created by Francine Pascal)
The Unicorn Club #7 : Too Close for Comfort, Alice Nicole Johansson (created by Francine Pascal) (In which the Sweet Valley franchise experiments with science fiction, catapulting us into an alternate universe in which it was Mandy, not Mary, who dated Rick Hunter in book four. Also, German measles is a minor illness and not at all something vaccinated for as a matter of course when children are small! Man, I don't exactly expect sterling research or continuity in Sweet Valley, but that is below even my rock-bottom standards.)
The Unicorn Club #8 : Kimberly Rides Again, Alice Nicole Johansson (created by Francine Pascal)
Addicted to Scientology, Vance Woodward