Random memory: Sweet Valley High

[pne]

When I was in 11th grade, or thereabouts, our school library started a "Middle School" section with books geared towards pupils in grades 6–8. (Up till then, there had only been "Junior" (K-5) and "Senior" (6-12) sections.)

Those books included the Sweet Valley High series of books. For a lark, I started checking those out and reading them.

By the time I got to book 5 or 6, the librarian (who knew me fairly well; I spent a lot of time in the library) asked me not to read them any more :) I think it was something about "can't you read anything better? That's not really appropriate for someone like you", or along those lines.

I thought it was funny; I considered my reading them a kind of meta-joke, given the intended readership. I did quit after book 15 or so, though.

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[pne.livejournal.com]

I suppose they weren't particularly high-brow reading (nor the sort of thing one wants one's friends to find out about, if one is male), but I got sucked in for a little while...

Oh, yeah! For just having something to read, they were great fun.

Though given that I tend to read for pleasure, not usually for exercising my brain, I didn't mind the low-brow.