#9, #10, #11 of 52 – 52 Books in 52 Weeks
I debated posting these as part of 52 in 52, but then I figured–well, they are books and I did read them a few days ago, so I’m counting them anyway!
When I was younger, I LOVED this series. When all the cool girls were reading The Baby-Sitters Club, I was reading Sleepover Friends. It’s a series about four best friends who have weekly sleepovers, and all the crazy situations they get into.
I’ve always remembered how obsessed I used to be with this series! (The Twilight series of my youth, if you will.) I took these books everywhere I went–in the car, to bed before I went to sleep, even once to church on Sunday. My sister caught me reading it and scolded me, saying she didn’t think I should be reading it right then, lol. I put it away, but promptly started reading it again in the car on the way home.
When I was young, I was extremely introverted–way more than I am now–and I spent a lot of time at home, usually by myself. Summers were the hardest, though I found ways to pass the time. Some days I would be in the den, playing on the ancient hand-me-down Atari system until my hands were sore from the crazy joystick. Other days, I would be in my room, reading book after book and feeling perfectly content to do so.
Reading these books again, as an adult, is kind of like stepping into the past–into the shoes of myself as a child, maybe. I’m surprised at the parts I had forgotten, and the parts that have been stuck in my memory all these years gone by. I’m thinking about rereading the rest of the series eventually, if I can get my hands on the rest of the books. After I moved out of my parents’ house, my mom asked me what I wanted to do with all my old books, and I told her that she could give them away. I’m pretty sure these are gone, but I’m going to look the next time I’m over at their house, just in case she held onto them for me.
I can really understand this! though I was definitely a BSC girl, like, waaay obsessed. I used to be able to name every book, in order, up through book #60 or so. I still have most of mine, and it is fun sometimes to get them out and read them – it brings back so many memories!
I read a lot of the BSC but didn’t get obsessed with it like with this series
That’s really good that you kept them! I hope I can still find mine…
I forget, was Sleepover Friends the series that had the girl who only wore red, black, and white clothes?
And was there a book where one of the girls might be moving to Alaska? And a couple of them had kittens and they’d bring them to the sleepovers? If so, I totally read the hell out of these books when I was a kid.
I read a lot of BSC and Girl Talk books too when I was a kid. Oh, the memories!
Not read these but if I see one I will give them a go. I was obsessed with The Chalet School Series by Eleanor Brent-dyer when I was growing up.
Aubrey: YES! This is the series you read
tandemsandy: I’ve not heard of that series before–might check it out now!