THIS IS NOT A DRILL.

[promethia_tenk]

The Baby-Sitter's Club ten-episode series on Netflix tomorrow. (Link is Washington Post, in case you're conserving your articles for the month.) TL;DR: apparently it's great.

Plz to reply with your favorite character and what portion of your 10-year-old life was spent reading BSC books. (My answers are Claudia, and about 80%)

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[greensword]

Oh you poor thing. My parents basically only ever let me watch PBS with rare exceptions, but they let me read whatever the hell I wanted with nary an eyebrow raised. The result being I spent several years reading very little else, constrained only by allowance money and the selection at the local library. Then one day a neighbor had a yard sale and their daughter was getting rid of all of her BSC books and I got the whole trove (probably more than 50) for a couple of bucks. Best day of my life.

Oh man, 50 at once?? Tween me is jealous. (Adult me is a little jealous too tbh.)

My mom let me read whatever I wanted, but cared about the proportions. I could read any BSC book but only if I also read lots of other books. She was similar about video games - we had a Nintendo, and we could get any game we wanted, but we had to play through it before we could get another one. I think she just didn't want us to spend all of our time on videogames or these series-focused books.

I tried a tiny bit of Sweet Valley but it never grabbed me; my heart belonged only to the Baby-Sitters Club.

I read so many different series. BSC, Sweet Valley, Saddle Club, Animorphs, Boxcar Children, Wayside Stories, that book series about alien teachers. BSC was my favorite though.

[promethia_tenk]

I've started watching and it's pretty cute. They kept the title design from the books and it made me so happy, and the episodes are following the titles and stories of the early books, so now I'm trying to remember what comes next. (Though I think Mimi dies soon, and I'm not sure I'm ready for that . . .)

ETA: Oh! I think Kristy is probably one of the strongest actors. I'm enjoying how they're handling her.

Oh man, 50 at once?? Tween me is jealous. (Adult me is a little jealous too tbh.)
It was an embarrassment of riches. And at the moment I'm kicking myself for getting rid of them.

My mom let me read whatever I wanted, but cared about the proportions.
Sounds sensible. Though I think that would have driven me crazy! I have a very one-track mind for media; if I'm focused on one thing, it's agony to try to change.

I read so many different series. BSC, Sweet Valley, Saddle Club, Animorphs, Boxcar Children, Wayside Stories, that book series about alien teachers. BSC was my favorite though.
LOL. I can't say I recognize all of those. My younger bother and sister were in to Animorphs, but that was slightly after my time. Oh and Goosebumps! I didn't read a lot of those, but it's the kind of thing that takes me back when I remember it's existence.

[maia]

I have a very one-track mind for media; if I'm focused on one thing, it's agony to try to change.

Likewise, and I now recognize how grateful I should be that my mother always understood that (she is the same way).

[promethia_tenk]

I think my single-mindedness somewhat bemused my mother, but she is at least an introvert as well and thus couldn't really see that it was doing any harm and let me be.

Once I was a lot older I realized there were many things about my childhood that could have been very, very difficult for me in a different household but which my parents just saw as normal and a matter of course, and I am thankful for that.

[maia]

I think my single-mindedness somewhat bemused my mother, but she is at least an introvert as well and thus couldn't really see that it was doing any harm and let me be.

Once I was a lot older I realized there were many things about my childhood that could have been very, very difficult for me in a different household but which my parents just saw as normal and a matter of course, and I am thankful for that.

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