but what happened to Lila?

From Trashionista: Francine Pascal is expected to release an adult Sweet Valley next spring.

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Now with this striking new adult novel from author and creator Francine Pascal, millions of devoted fans can finally return to the idyllic Sweet Valley, home of the phenomenally successful book series and franchise. Iconic and beloved identical twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield are back and all grown up, dealing with the complicated adult world of love, careers, betrayal, and sisterhood.

Quimby alert

In the spirit of Oscar night -- and no, I don't want to talk about Sandra Bullock or her win for a movie that looks like it should have debuted on the Hallmark channel -- I offer some book-to-movie updates.

Big news: Ramona Quimby is going to the big screen! With none other than Aidan Shaw as her dad. I mean John Corbett. No, I mean Aidan Shaw.

We remember Ramona Quimby, Age 8, yes? Yes!

No new news on Diablo Cody's Sweet Valley High project. But, it looks like we'll see the twins in their 30s next year?

Meanwhile, this movie appears to have nothing to do with Christopher Pike. Harrumph.

"stick to your ribs"

So, I wasn't actually a big fan of Little House on the Prairie.

Weird, right?

I was all over Nancy Drew and Anne of Green Gables and Little Women, so you would think Laura Ingalls Wilder would have been right up my alley. Totally wasn't, though.

Anywho, I nonetheless find the idea of this cookbook intriguing.

(More nerdery?) I just love how books are snapshots of how lives were lived. For example, the clothes Jessica and Elizabeth wore in the original Sweet Valley High series tell us a lot about what was cool in the 1980s. Or, Judy Blume's adult novels highlight times when hippie-chic was chic....

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With its famously Size 6 twins, who loved to shop, date and drama-up their lives, Sweet Valley High was never exactly a down-to-earth vision of life among lockers, teachers and text books.

But if the Fug Girls are to be believed (and they are, they always are), life in Sweet Valley got a little bit sadder. Obviously this is an attempt to style-up Jessica and Elizabeth in a world where catty Gossip Girl is cool. But there was something to be said about vintage Sweet Valley, a world where books are for reading, not for catalogue shopping.

toil and trouble

R.L. Stine is back, people.

That's right, the king of the blonde-girl-screaming-as-she-runs-away-from-scary-thing-that-could-be-a-ghost-or-could-be-in-her-head story is returning.

Not with the kind of books I used to read, though. I was too old for the Goosebumps series by the time they came along. I read his squat paperbacks for teenagers, feeding off a monthly diet of Sweet Valley High, R.L. Stine, Christopher Pike, book for school, and back to Sweet Valley High. The thing about the popular, non-school books, was each week a new one arrived at the local pharmacy. (In small towns, one often buys her books from the pharmacy.) It was like Archie's Digest, but with depth. Like, maybe a whole inch of depth.

On nostalgia alone, I have to say I'm pretty excited. Not 90210 is returning excited, or even New Kids on the Block are reuniting excited, but pretty gosh darn excited.

In other news.... um, what the hell?

high school, anyone?

I had a basketball game tonight. The other team.... smelled like alcohol. Which didn't prevent us from losing 48-32, sadly.
They reminded me of this.