I looked something up on my website the other day and realised how out of date the episode guides were. I also had a load of fic and video recs hanging around, so it's now all updated.

I'm also down to just under 200 entries left to categorise and title. So I'm halfway there.

I spoke about childhood reads a while back. Since then I've found a few and read them, so I thought I'd write what I thought about them.

Sweet Valley High
This is actually just like I remember it. It's the OC, children only and a lot more vapid. I think that's the right word. It's amazing how little happens. I got through the whole book in an hour, which is fair enough because it's not that long. I also sat there for a whole hour reading it, so it can't have been that bad.

I'm still working on Sweet Valley University and I'm not planning on going back to Sweet Valley Twins. In the meantime I discovered there is Sweet Valley Senior Year. In High they're 16, in Senior Year they're 17. I wasn't keen on Senior Year though because they focused on a whole load of new characters. I don't care about new characters, only about Jessica and Elizabeth.

Cheerleaders
I managed to get hold of copies of both sets of cheerleaders - there's one group for about twenty books and another set, the following year, for the other twenty or so. It was weird, reading these, how much of what was in other books came back to me. Although that could have been because the books are apt to remind you. I preferred the first set although I think that's because I read more of those the first time round, so I remember them better.

Sadlers Wells
These turned out to be set in the 50s and written in first person, which I wasn't expecting. I absolutely loved them though. Each book introduces you to a new character but (so far) they're always someone who has been in a previous book, if not in a big way. They're quite old-fashioned in their thinking but it was still nice to read about english people, in contrast to the American Sweet Valley and Cheerleaders.

Gemma
This was okay and I really liked Gemma. I'm not so convinced about the rest of the Robinson family though, they are just so perfect. I can accept that they're all musical but not that they're all geniuses at what they do. Or just so nice, it grates after a while. And generally being happy and contented with their (small) lot.

The Demon Headmaster
I don't know how I didn't remember what it was about the Headmaster because I knew all the way through - although that's from remembering not bad writing. If you don't know then it's quite a good book, otherwise there's not much new in there. Being as it's about a girl who goes from a childrens home to be fostered I was expecting more about her settling in but then this is a childrens book and it is mainly about what happens in school, so I suppose it's not that unreasonable that it focuses on that.

After Sel's post on the Chalet School books I thought I'd try those as they seem to be popular and I've never tried any. I've only read a few chapters of the first one but I'm enjoying it so far.