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Sweet Valley Diaries

Marissa Flaxbart

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Comedy

Frequency: 1 episode/14d. Total Eps: 187

After years of wide-eyed blogging about the surreal 1980s perfection of Francine Pascal's Sweet Valley High book series (and the surprising psychodrama that lurks below the town's perfectly-tanned surface), host Marissa Flaxbart is now forcing people to read the series with her. But beyond its obsession with the ubiquitous-yet-obscure book series, SWEET VALLEY DIARIES is a podcast about nostalgia — '80s nostalgia in particular — and the ways this nostalgia can (spectacularly, hilariously) fail us. It's a riotous cultural conversation about which parts of the past we long for and which ones we want to leave behind for good. It's about friendship, honesty, and learning to speak your truth in the face of a boyfriend-stealing cheerleader or an evil triplet. It's all the life lessons you could ever hope to learn from two size-6, blonde-haired, aqua-eyed, identical 16-year-old twins. Strap in.

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🇨🇦 Canada - books
14/06/2026
#100

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Sweet Valley News & Help Rebuild the Palisades Library/Support LAPL Staff

vendredi 17 janvier 2025 • Duration 10:27

Support the Palisades Branch Recovery Fund

Support the LAPL Staff Emergency Support Fund

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Extra Drama #82: A Legend of Readin'

jeudi 27 juin 2024 • Duration 09:27

A correction email about ROSA'S LIE and truly the most epically hyperbolic Reader of the Month winner to date!

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Extra Drama #78: Jackson's Funtime Fashions

jeudi 19 octobre 2023 • Duration 20:42

Claire and Marissa explore the dreamworld of Jessica Wakefield. Plus, a particularly lyrical Reader of the Month essay. Come along, if you choose!

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Extra Drama #39: Flirty DMs for Science

jeudi 9 avril 2020 • Duration 13:16

Guest Megan Collier has probing questions, and Marissa has probing answers. With so much deep thought about the mechanics of Sweet Valley, this episode is a veritable "Sweet Valley University!" Err, no, that's already a thing. A veritable "Sweet Valley College!" Shit. No. "Sweet Valley Academy?"

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More about the Lex app.

InstaPsycho on Lifetime

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Book #39: SECRET ADMIRER

jeudi 2 avril 2020 • Duration 01:06:29

Not sure which Book 39 the rest of you read, but Marissa and her guest, Megan Collier, read the version where Penny Ayala has a crush on Elizabeth, Neil Freemount (FREEMOUNT!) has eyes for Kirk Anderson, and Jessica and Lila both learn their lesson for good this time. It's pure fantasyland over here.

Some music in this episode by Purple Planet. Thanks!

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Extra Drama #38: Time, Travel

jeudi 26 mars 2020 • Duration 14:40

Nora and Marissa talk about studying abroad, just to drive the gravity of Liz's mistake home.

Music credit: Meanwhile in Bavaria by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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Book #38: LEAVING HOME

jeudi 19 mars 2020 • Duration 01:05:42

Elizabeth Wakefield has the opportunity of a lifetime on her hands: get out of Sweet Valley and see the world (specifically, Interlochen, Switzerland). Obviously, she must be stopped. The only way out of Sweet Valley is if your parents move to Vermont, or in a body bag. Marissa is joined by Nora (Hanna) Bigelow to discuss this travesty. Also, Winston wins the lottery in this one.

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Extra Drama #37: Regency Rumours

jeudi 12 mars 2020 • Duration 08:51

Meridith and Marissa discuss the parallels between the Sweet Valley of RUMORS and the worlds of Jane Austen and Regency Romance. Somehow, the obvious comparisons to Emma go unmentioned. Also, serious question: Why didn't Mrs. Reister just tell everyone she was a widow?

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The Debutante Ball in the Age of Instagram

"The women can bring their own escorts, or if they do not, one is assigned to them based on height and dancing ability. No inquiries are made about sexual orientation."

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Book #37: RUMORS

jeudi 5 mars 2020 • Duration 01:23:08

Susan Stewart is somebody, but is she *a* somebody, or is she a nobody? Nobody knows. Until somebody shows up and shows everybody who’s anybody what it really means to be somebody. Meridith Halsey is our guest.

Murphy Brown and Dan Quayle

This episode features music from Purple Planet.

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Extra Drama #36: A Social Enterprise

jeudi 27 février 2020 • Duration 18:51

What is a social enterprise? What if your host had an older sister who was bad at humanities? Who is the bigger asshole in LAST CHANCE, Peter or Jessica? Though it may be hard to believe, answers to these questions AND MORE await when Marissa Wasseluk-Stuart returns for this bonus episode.