I don’t usually blog on weekends. But like OMG. From this place, by way of these people:

The relaunch of Sweet Valley High.

You MUST have heard about this.

I read about the relaunch a while back, promptly forgot* about it, and then received review copies of the first two in the mail yesterday. I read the first chapter of the very first book. (That was all I could handle at the moment. I’ll go back for more later.)

They may have changed some things — the Wakefield twins are no longer “a perfect size six”, now they’re (get ready…) “a perfect size four”** — but wow, they haven’t changed Jessica Wakefield. She’s still a bitch.

Why I have I not received copies of these? I got Dr. Laura’s new book, for eff’s sake. I am on the wrong publishers’ lists.

Re: the slimming down of the Wakefields, one Slog commentor notes;

To be fair… in the past 10 years companies have gradually changed sizing so that what was a size 6 10 years ago is now a size [4]. So, actually the Wakefields stayed the same height and weight, but Gap just changed their sizing.

Also, since this IS a Girls Only post, I am at Tiny’s at the people at the table next to me are having a blind internet date. Hee hee.