Aren't the photos so retro?

after reading a post on kikay.exchange.ph and coming across http://thedairiburger.wordpress.com/category/sweet-valley-high/, I was reminded on how I went gaga over SVH and all its permutations circa 80s.  As in I can finish a book in an hour and I used to drop by National Bookstore in Quezon Ave. every week to buy an entire stash of the latest SV something (i.e. kids, twins, saga, high school, special edition etc., name it, I had it)  in grade school and high school (I started in third grade, I think) half of which I now gave my younger cousins with the other half being donated to a public school.

Come to think of it, Sweet Valley was the reason I was provided with a headstart in speed reading, haha. I read - no practically devoured everything I could get my hands on so much so that it started my love affair with the written word until I progressed into classics, encyclopedias, novels and now Gloria stuff, hehehe. I think when I was eleven I wrote my own series based on the stuff with a heroine named Courtney and a jock named Jake...hehehe ang chaka... Nevertheless, it gave me the push I needed to move on to more serious stuff :)