Comments on: The Popularity Plan: Not so much of a plan, more of an unrealistic delusion

By: Minx

Minx — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:54:34 +0000

I love when you cover books I swear no one has ever heard of except me!

I read this in junior high, and one of my friends at the time was named Francine. I showed her the back cover (which said something like “Frannie is so shy, she thinks she might make it through high school without ever getting kissed”) and she was all offended XD

From what I recall, being popular has a lot to do with blue eyeliner and peach lipgloss, which I thought was standard issue in the 80s anyway.

By: Sue

Sue — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:55:04 +0000

I totally remember this book, especially the stupid pencil dropping. What I remember most is thinking, of course she got popular immediately, the girl on the cover is adorable!

By: Roger Patman

Roger Patman — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:58:00 +0000

AHHH…Sweet Dreams..check out the SD ‘novel’ titled ‘Just One of the Boys.’ Am thinking that it came out around the same time as SVH #28 did because it is the exact same plot. You know, butt-ass fulgy girl who turns beautiful and then all the boys are triping over their penises to date them. Or perhaps the same ghostwriter was busy whoring herself out to both publishing houses.
Could you imagine what is was like in a YA editors meeting room?

By: Cassie

Cassie — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:54:46 +0000

I loved Sweet Dreams in my teens! One of the books inspired me to take a job as a check out girl because that’s how she found love (this did not work for me)!

Annakelly, I recently read How to be Popular – while light, it’s got so much of a better message than Sweet Dreams/SVUHbooks, Meg Cabot’s books are actually pretty feminist.

By: Anners, Lover of Chandler

Anners, Lover of Chandler — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:43:28 +0000

That was totally hilarious. They picked the right airhead for the cover.

By: Clancy

Clancy — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:21:30 +0000

I remember this book. There was another guy she dated named Cal, and on their date, he shot a bird in order to impress her. It really disturbed and saddened me.

By: Robyn J.

Robyn J. — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:36:13 +0000

i love these blasts from the past. sadly my HS life in the late 80′s was consumed by reading sweet dreams, svh, c. pike, caitlin, etc… they don’t write books like those anymore, that’s for sure.

By: sunstreakedblonde

sunstreakedblonde — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:28:19 +0000

There’s a character on Greek named Frannie. She’s supposed to be a hot sorority girl. I was like um… OK.

By: ihatewheat

ihatewheat — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:44:01 +0000

Oh because Frannie is now such an expert on popularity?

By: Lovey

Lovey — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:10:10 +0000

I will unabashedly admit to loving this book LOL. I recently re-read TPP, along with The Popularity Summer. TPS is a sequel where Frannie spends the summer with her cousin Jolene and reinvents her, while trying to decide if she’s had enough of Ronnie.

I recently bought a huge lot of Sweet Dreams from Ebay and am enjoying myself immensely re-reading these books.