tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27552471.post7304139849513230637..comments2023-05-22T01:25:48.778-07:00Comments on Simon Pulse Romantic Comedies: Milestone BooksJennifer Echolshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15757825467796917325noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27552471.post-72076666395958482032008-04-17T17:45:00.000-07:002008-04-17T17:45:00.000-07:00This is going to sound weird and seem like way too...This is going to sound weird and seem like way too much information for you, but my mom was also big into horror and I SO wanted to read her Stephen King library. Naturally, she wouldn't let me, but ever the wily one, I broke away from her one weekend library visit and devoured half of THE SHINING before we had to meet back up. I finished it two weeks later via the same ruse. <BR/><BR/>To this day I am a huge horror devotee, to the surprise of no one. <BR/><BR/>ps: Couldn't sleep for a week after I finished that book.Micol Ostowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00432601846296713150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27552471.post-52261522191385657142008-04-17T04:28:00.000-07:002008-04-17T04:28:00.000-07:00Growing up, I loved me some Judy Blume and Lois Du...Growing up, I loved me some Judy Blume and Lois Duncan. But when I read Paula Danziger's CAN YOU SUE YOUR PARENTS FOR MALPRACTICE, which is sexy (for eighth graders) and hilarious, I was absolutely floored. It was so good, it seemed wrong.Jennifer Echolshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15757825467796917325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27552471.post-59686591252589913382008-04-16T12:07:00.000-07:002008-04-16T12:07:00.000-07:00For me, the milestone book was EYES OF THE TAROT b...For me, the milestone book was EYES OF THE TAROT by Bruce Coville. (What? You were expecting, maybe, CATCHER IN THE RYE?) It was part of a collection called DARK FORCES, which was kind of like the Simon Pulse Ro Coms in that there were different authors writing a series under a theme, but this theme was horror. <BR/><BR/>EYE OF THE TAROT was the first mass market young adult book I ever read. It was 152 pages long! And there weren't any pictures!! It was also the first book I remember not being able to put down. AND the first time I ever got so into a book series that I would stalk the bookstores looking for the rest of the books while plotting out how to make the most of my allowance so that I could get them all. <BR/><BR/>I still have all 15 of the books in that series on a shelf in my office. I have no intention of ever reading them again, because I suspect that they would not hold up to the memory of them.P.J. Ruditishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13106368580291345510noreply@blogger.com