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Of course hardbacks are preferred for collecting and look so much nicer on bookshelves, but for practical reasons (cost, size, weight) I much prefer paperbacks.

#JulyJam @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @eggs
#PaperbackBookDay

🌸 Thanks for the tag @Sparklemn 🌸

I. I like both hardcovers and paperbacks (trade, not mass market). I probably have more hardcovers in my library just because I can be impatient when it comes to getting my hands on new releases. Tagged is a fun, nostalgic read about the paperback pre-teen series of the 80s & 90s.
II. Screened-in front porch when nice. Inside with a blanket and hot beverage once temps drop.
III. Fall

#WondrousWednesday
@Eggs

I finished both my #bookspin (tagged) and #doublespin (The Fortunate Ones by Ed Tarkington) today. Both were also #TBRDeckOfCards.

I LOVED the tagged book - so much fun! The other one had fantastic writing, but I hated all of the characters.

@TheAromaofBooks @Clwojick

I loved the 80s/90s nostalgia, as many of the books mentioned were staples of my preteen years. I loved the Nancy Drew reboot and the horror/thriller novels of Christopher Pike. My only quibbles are (a) there‘s so much focus on Babysitters‘ Club and Sweet Valley High, that one could almost think they were the only books written for the YA crowd, and (b) the book ends so abruptly that I thought my audiobook was abridged (it wasn‘t).

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I definitely enjoyed this book- so nostalgic! I‘ve been an avid reader my whole life so the author‘s descriptions of many of the YA books I read in the 80s and 90s brought a smile to my face

My review of this book can be found on my Youtube Vlog at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faI9tKj0OYs

Enjoy!

My finished soup—Chickpea Alphabet Soup, a vegan take on a classic. Lots of veggies, pasta & fun to eat. I paired it with a fun nostalgic book that I hope to do more than flip through soon. I‘m going to feel bad if the quarantine ends & libraries here reopen & I still have not finished the stack of books I checked out before things shut down. 📚📚😬📚Reading in general is such a struggle for me right now.
Link to soup recipe👇🏻

This book was so much fun!!!

So much nostalgia!! This covers all the teen fiction you remember from childhood.
All the 😍 for Sweet Valley and Judy Blume!

Daria! This was such a lovely surprise. 🥰 Thank you for the fun and fabulous #galentinesday gift. I hope you had a Happy Galentine‘s Day yesterday (such a great holiday, yes?) #kindlitsy 💜📚💜

Paperback #Crush was such a fun trip down memory lane! As an 80s/90s kid, I devoured The Baby-Sitter's Club, Sleepover Friends, the Camp Sunnyside Girls, and the Fear Street series like nobody's business. This book also reminded me of a bunch of fun one-offs that I wish I still had. Highly recommend the nostalgia! #FebruaryFeels @Eggs

Drumroll please! Paperback Crush is my last book of 2019. For a book I wasn‘t sure I was going to commit to at the moment, it sucked me in & was a delightful trip down memory lane, visiting the books & authors that solidified my life as a reader. The interview with Christopher Pike in the last chapter was intriguing.
My first book of 2020 is my January book club selection, The Tattooist of Auschwitz (unless a comic book sneaks ahead).

#lastfirst

Confession:
I was 10 when the first Babysitters Club came out. I gobbled up the series. We moved to a new neighborhood when I was 14. Lots of young kids. Inspired by BSC I made a sign with pull off tabs with my name & phone # & posted it at a nearby Convenient. I babysat almost every kid for blocks & had full time summer jobs for years. And since there were no other teens in the neighborhood, I didn‘t even have to share my profits with a club!

Too true. Too true. 🤣

I‘m not embarrassed to admit that Babysitters Club and Sweet Valley Twins & High were as much a part of making me a reader as Little House on the Prairie and Anne of Green Gables.
I‘m not sure I‘m going to commit to this book right now but I wanted to check it out. Love this highlight.

#selfimprovementsept

Thus far September has been a roller coaster so catching up on some photo prompts. Indulging today in some #selfcaresunday in my #favoritereadingspot

So much nostalgia!

This is a fun and nostalgic romp through the books that populated my pre-teen years. It‘s full of the covers of Sweet Valley, Fear Street, And Christopher Pike books. (To Name just a few!) The author discusses the different themes common in teen fiction, and reminds us of tons of our favorites.

I did begin to get bored with the plot summaries by the end, but to be fair, a lot of these books were pretty similar!

Froedrick has decided it‘s time for a break from reading. Okay buddy, I can give you a little lovin‘s now.

I think when two of your Litsy friends send you “book nerd” book marks for your birthday, it must be true. 💕 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks and @Mitch

Currently reading for #LLB2019, #LittenLoveBingo2019, for the prompt “picked by @LibrarianRyan

I devoured this one with the same dedication and fever I devoured these tweenybopper books of my youth. So much fun!!

#nonfiction #BooksAboutBooks #LitsyLovesLibraries

I've been reading the tagged book (it's bringing back lots of memories of awesome and some less awesome 80s/90s teen fiction), and found a new book for your tbr @TrishB

I never read widely in the genres covered in this history. But it was interesting learning where the books that made up such a big part of Children‘s Department of the local library of my youth came from, what forces created those pastel covers.

This was a fun, nostalgic history of those popular mass produced paperback series geared towards teens in the ‘80s and ‘90s like Sweet Valley High, Goosebumps, etc. I remember reading a lot of the books mentioned. It‘s organized by genre and there‘s lots of cool vintage covers to look over. I just wish it had an epilogue at the end to wrap things up, because it just sort of trails off.

This was a fun bit of nostalgia.

Some nostalgia and #Litsylove to end the day. ❤️

Paperback Crush is entertaining, funny, fun, nostalgic, and critical, and it is all of these things in the best possible way. This was a great exploration of teen fic from the 80s and 90s and I had a ton of fun walking down memory lane with that critical eye and sense of humour Moss brings to the book. Definitely recommended!

I'm about halfway through this one and it's so fun! I remember reading soooo many of the books mentioned! I'm really enjoying this so far.
#CurrentlyReading #Nonfiction

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This book was a fun flashback to so many books that I loved while growing up. It reminded me of so many books and memories I had during that time. I recommend this to anyone who always wanted to be in the BSC, to live on Fear Street or wanted a twin like the Wakefields.

As if I was walking out of the bookstore without this book today! I wish there was one that looked at books from the 1970s, but still....nostalgia!

If you were a Scholastic book fair lover in the 80s and 90s like me, this is the book for you! Extremely well researched and very hilarious, Moss takes a look at the gamut of YA/MG novels available to tweens and teens in that era. Love the color covers in the ebook.

I had Baby-Sitters Club 1-88ish plus the Super Specials, and my mom gave them away about 15 years ago. But these Gymnasts books remained!

#somethingyoupick #nonfiction2019

How did I miss this book!? 😵😵😱😱😱

Guys! GUYS! There I was, reading “Paperback Crush,” about the teen fiction I grew up reading. Then I find out... WE‘RE BRINGING BACK THE BABYSITTERS CLUB 🎉🎊💫
Nine year old me is losing her fucking mind. Now give us the Sweet Valley High movie, you cowards.

Look what I checked out for funsies! I hope it is nostalgic as it sounds!

As seen on the library shelf tonight. How did it take so long to write this? A nostalgic trip down memory lane including Babysitters Club and Sweet Valley High. I didn‘t get it tonight but I‘m sure to be back for it.

#libraryloot!

Is the pinnacle of book obsession? Reading a book about books? 🤷‍♀️ #paperbackcrush

This was more of skim, but I‘m counting it. 😂🤷‍♀️

Ready for all the nostalgic feels with this one. On to book 2! #24in48 #readathon

Nostalgic and wonderful! Brought me back to my Junior High-High School Days, when I had a paperback with me at all times. #24in48 #youngadult #yalibrarian

#24in48 is underway!

Getting ready for #24in48. Excited to curl up with a good book.

Presently reliving my teenage years! #ya #yabooks #80skid #90steen

What a fun wander down nostalgia lane! I have fond memories of many of these books and appreciate the various asides like the above discussion of creating covers and the interview with Christopher Pike. I think anyone who enjoyed 80s and 90s YA would get a kick out of this book.

I read SO many of these Sunfire books! I don‘t remember them as romances, just as historical fiction featuring a teenage girl, and I thought of them as the “name” books. I loved them.

This book is already a fun romp down memory lane.

Amy thanks so much for this amazing #giveaway. This book is so great! It is bigger and more beautiful than I even expected. Thanks for all the extra goodies-love those fuzzy socks, sticky notes and bookmarks. Thank you so very much! 💜😊💜