Gabrielle Moss: Paperback crush (2018)
255 pages
English language
Published March 19, 2018
"Every twenty- or thirty-something woman knows these books. The pink covers, the flimsy paper, the zillion volumes in the series that kept you reading for your entire adolescence. Spurred by the commercial success of Sweet Valley High and The Babysitters Club, these were not the serious-issue YA novels of the 1970s, nor were they the blockbuster books of the Harry Potter and Twilight ilk. They were cheap, short, and utterly beloved. Paperback crush dives in deep to this golden age with affection, history, and a little bit of snark"--
"Every twenty- or thirty-something woman knows these books. The pink covers, the flimsy paper, the zillion volumes in the series that kept you reading for your entire adolescence. Spurred by the commercial success of Sweet Valley High and The Babysitters Club, these were not the serious-issue YA novels of the 1970s, nor were they the blockbuster books of the Harry Potter and Twilight ilk. They were cheap, short, and utterly beloved. Paperback crush dives in deep to this golden age with affection, history, and a little bit of snark"--
A fantastic primer on YA fiction from the olden days of my childhood. Not gonna lie, feeling the urge to troll the used bookstores around here and pick up some old favorites.
A fantastic primer on YA fiction from the olden days of my childhood. Not gonna lie, feeling the urge to troll the used bookstores around here and pick up some old favorites.
