Books from 2002 | Re-reading 7th Grade Favourites

[@jjcinnaberry]

kayla really started the vlog exposing her secret 7th grade identity.. we only know her as rose now.

[@FromtheDepthsofMel]

I also "changed" my name in 7th grade... Rose(also my middle name) would have been way less cringy than my choice. I changed the spelling of my name to Mulysa... because it's asylum backwards.

[@FromtheDepthsofMel]

Also, 7th grade was the year that my English teacher gave me her copy of How I Spent My Last Night On Earth... still not sure why that was her pick for me(or why she even gave a book to me in the first place).

[@ElectronikSoundtrack]

Omg, "Mulysa because it's 'asylum' backwards" made me laugh a lot, thank you for being brave enough to share your 7th grade antics!

[@Kittikee10]

😂😂😂 this is golden

[@Mrstwiligtloverlovet]

This is ICONIC. Wish I would have been that dramatic in 7th grade tbh

[@MaryJoHeadrick]

that is the most 7th grade thing i've ever read and i'm obsessed with it

[@taylorferguson7787]

Omg I lost it at... "I got a B!!" "I thought you were GOOD at it?!" 😂😂😂 that was perfect

[@allisonzhang8918]

Me, every time: How does she remember all of those things and how did she keep such good record of those materials??

[@AshleyZieman]

Me too!

[@ashleygates3588]

Her mom was probably like mine and kept EVERYTHING 🤣🤷🏼‍♀️ I was always annoyed by that but now I'm very grateful that she did that 🥰

[@BooksandLala]

@@ashleygates3588 hahaha I wish. My mom definitely didn't hold onto anything from my childhood. I just kept it all 🤗

[@northeastgirl100]

I'm wondering the same thing!! I have vague memories of middle school but couldn't tell you what happened in 6th grade vs what happened in 7th or 8th grade - they're all blended together!

[@leightontanner1978]

Instablaster.

[@jordanpearson9883]

12 year old Kayla (or Rose) read Ariel by Sylvia Plath, The Unicorn Club, and Misery by Stephen King, and that is what we call range.

[@ciinthiamk]

Will we get to the year when you met Robbie??? Like teenage favorites? We stan Robbie

[@BooksandLala]

Hell yeah we will!!!

[@ciinthiamk]

@@BooksandLala yaaaaas, this is my favorite series of yours✨💗

[@northeastgirl100]

What year was that??

[@deannamacdonald3357]

Lol reading a Barbie book and then immediately following it up with Misery by Stephen King. 7th grade Kayla had some chaotic energy haha

[@bts_vinyl]

i'm SCREAMING. i spent so much time doing those online dress up/dollmaker things lol

[@jamiemasters2464]

I always wanted the fairy wings that the one had 😂

[@manuelarobledo5405]

The video that we have all been waiting for since 6th grade!!!! Kayla: Basically in seventh grade I decided I was going to be famous, so I changed my name. A true queen!!!!

[@MikiBaka1]

love Liam's comment on your grades 😂 Kayla: "I got a B!" Liam: "I THOUGHT YOU SAID YOU WERE GOOD AT IT!" legit dead 😂 Liam: "wait... wait... wait... you said A in math?" : I THOUGHT YOU SAID YOU HATED MATH"

[@sofiastj]

"What's that game?" Me: "Oregon trail!" "Yukon trail." Me: "What."

[@Tarasreadingnook]

Yeah I was the same way... lol

[@reading_faerie]

Lolll relatable

[@mybookishdelights4767]

Lol I thought she was just remembering it wrong until she pulled it up. 😂

[@maiawithani]

LOL, SAME!!!

[@cvb4117]

MyBookishDelights same, I must’ve forgot she’s Canadian 😂

[@cinephial]

I think 7th grade was rough for all of us 🥴

[@marandapoe3474]

I’m always so impressed by people who have such vivid memories of their childhood. I have THE WORST long term memory. Like, friends will ask me if I remember someone or something that happened back during school and I never do. I’m also not someone that holds onto items, so I can’t really go back to remind myself lol On the other hand, I was a really weird kid so maybe it’s for the best I don’t remember

[@vanessagarza4139]

You’re famous in my house.

[@BooksandLala]

I'm trying to decide if 7th grade me would be proud or horrified with what I'm doing on youtube hahaha

[@jenysamuel2780]

I think she would be proud

[@carrie6113]

omg DOLL MAKERS wow the nostalgia is hitting hard.

[@sofiastj]

Same!! I was born in '96 but loooooooved that site

[@carrie6113]

Sofia S i was born in 95 but my older step sister showed it to me and i loved it lmao

[@innocentthing4423]

I loved this!!

[@believeme6707]

Listen to Haiku World here kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWawgXt3r5J5r8k

[@Katesbookishnature]

I was born in ‘86 and we definitely played with doll makers. I think we called them Dollz 🤣

[@VictoriaBreakspeare]

I would 100% watch a GamesandLala youtube channel.

[@Anna-dp8ei]

watching this video reminded me of the iconic website "girlsgogames" which i completely forgot existed. I was OBSESSED with playing doll dress up games lol. I would sit at the computer for hours and make up stories in my head when i played

[@phantomgirlheart7035]

Same

[@HorseLover3061]

Makes me so upset and angry that you were bullied😔

[@racheltfisher]

Seems to be the norm nowadays, not that it is ok, I got bullied in year 7 (from the Uk) as I was a sweet and naive kid and was going into a new school, kids will bully you for anything now 😤

[@BooksToAshes]

I was bullied almost every year from grade 2-6 (which lead into why I have depression now/then). It's horrible. It literally destroyed my self esteem and made me think really dark thoughts as a child. Thankfully I'm better now as an adult but I still struggle with depression.

[@jessicamoore1289]

Your memories are impressive. I remember so little from my school years tbh. You make me want to keep all my daughters fave things. I just thought it was normal to have barely any memories lol. So thanks, my kid is gonna have more memories than me haha

[@blessedtobealive]

I think flowers in the attic speaks to a bigger and much sadder issue than incest. The absolute cruelty, depravity and greediness of the human soul. I didn't see this as a forbidden love story, I don't know why it says that on the front cover. I can't believe a mother would try to kill her own children smh.

[@x0dartron]

When I read this as a teen it was marketed as an adult horror. So I took it as that much. So Kayla's horrified reaction at the reread was my reaction at 12. So I found this discussion really interesting because I thought we all read it as a Horror story as a child....

[@wormdoodles]

I agree, and I always took Flowers in the Attic as a horror novel, too. Admittedly, that could also be because I read it as an adult, and I read a lot of books that examine the depravity of man from writers like Hubert Shelby Jr, Dennis Cooper, etc. Books without morals or happy endings, just a look at what we humans do to each other and how what happened to us as a child can impact who we are and how we see things as an adult. I also think that, while it wasn't intentionally marketed as a YA novel and though she wasn't a great writer, VC Andrews herself made a big impact on the YA world by breaking a lot of taboos about teen fiction and a lot of those dark realistic fiction writers like Ellen Hopkins (is she still popular?) owe their careers to VC Andrews.

[@blessedtobealive]

@@wormdoodles I would like to check out the the authors that you mentioned, what would you recommend by them?

[@wormdoodles]

@@blessedtobealive Hubert Shelby Jr's most famous work, Requiem for a Dream, is where most people start, but Last Exit to Brooklyn is better imo. The Room is good, too. By Dennis Cooper I'd recommend Frisk, which is sometimes known as the gay American Psycho. The whole George Miles Cycle is worth looking into, though. If you're interested further in transgressive fiction, Bret Easton Ellis and Chuck Palahniuk are must-read writers. Less Than Zero is better than American Psycho, but both are classic works of transgressive fiction. Palahniuk's the guy I recommend to transgressive fiction beginners because he's really easy to read. I wasn't crazy about Fight Club, but I was really into Invisible Monsters and Choke.

[@bookedonafeeling]

Also the time of jeans that were so low they were under our hip bones

[@natasagajic1061]

I squealed at that Charmed opening clip 🥰

[@LaynasBookshelf]

"God... Christ... placentas..." lol i cracked up!

[@katl2390]

every tv show intro played had me feeling so nostalgic lmao also i had a massive magazine collection very similar to yours 😂 every time we went to the store i begged my mom for one i didnt have lol

[@bubblefaerie1]

When I read Flowers in the Attic, it was in the horror section and didn’t at all mention forbidden love. I read it knowing that it was supposed to be a horrible situation.

[@milagrosaquino9443]

When you said the Tony Hawk game, it made my eyes bulge out. Playing that on the game cube in elementary school at my cousins' during parties at Christmas was the best. Bruhh my sisters in 7th grade and did that same single thick braid in front today. The puffy hair gave me mad Jackie vibes from That 70's show.

[@Jordan-dv6tw]

Rob swinging liam around with the might of Zeus while you're giving the backstory of your name change is all I'm here to mention on this fine Thursday

[@forever_quiinn1324]

Flowers in the Attics was/is marketed as a middle grade/young adult?? The movies scarred me as a kid!

[@bookedonafeeling]

Also I think I was obsessed with Lizzie McGuire this year - because she was also in 7th and 8th grade. And I tried to do my hair in the same way Lizzie did on that week’s episode

[@Janella_Ice_Ice_Baby]

I was born in 84 and feel much of what you’re saying about technology and use and adaptability still rings true for me. Probably not AS much as someone born in 94 (😱 man I’m old) but even at 36, I’m still able to stay up on most things. Although, admittedly, I do not understand nor care about Snapchat or TikTok. Sooooooo there’s that. 🤣

[@FromJessToYou]

OMG .. I'm an 1984 gal too and I completely agree with this comment. 🥰😍😆

[@MandaisManda]

Ahh I’m even older born in 1981 😳 but still relate to what she says about being on top of technology. I’m so glad I did my growing up without social media! Plus I also have no interest in snap chat or Tik Tok or even Twitter 😂😂 showing my age there...I know!! 😁😁

[@withlovemeg2754]

Lala talking about her middle school trauma makes me remember my middle school trauma and just seeing her being so cOol and put together now I’m like “okay there is hope for me”

[@annaliviaconnor]

I’m 15 and I read Flowers in the Attic in 7th grade as well. I read it because I really liked Josie and Jack (which is about two siblings running away from their abusive father) because of the way Jack and Josie act/saw the world different because of the affects of their father. I read FitA because it was another sibling relationship caused through trauma type thing and I love delving into the psychology/mind of characters that have mental issues for whatever reason. I want to reread FitA soon because I haven’t read it in 3 years, but, from what I remember and what I currently think about, is that I liked it because it made me think about what would happen if that weren’t stuck there? What about their past effects them in that attic? How much probably what the children did was their subconscious doing things that their grandmother didn’t want them to do, and similar questions. I also was, and still am, very aware of the r*pe scene and I remember feeling so hurt and disgusted by the sister trying to justify it but I also was like “I hate this so much, but with everything that happens to them it makes sense this happened and the sister wants to say it’s okay.” I also saw it as a thing that happens a lot in the real world, women blaming themselves for what was forced on them when it wasn’t their fault. And I ESPECIALLY did not romanticize the relationship because I knew these were two kids with dwindling mental health in a violet environment. I think what I do with FitA and a lot of other books is see the horrible effects of abuse and mental illness and make the a reference from that to know how to stop it/help people through it and seeing way everything happened the way it did. I never saw the relationships between any of the characters good and that’s what I liked. This are horrible people doing horrible things and having horrible consequences. Im definitely not one for hyping this book, especially since it’s been awhile since I read it, but I just love character studies so much that Iiked in a way it definitely wasn’t meant to be liked I’m sorry if what I said was confusing, I just like reading about f’d up shit and looking into it way more than people were meant to. Love you videos and be safe in quarantine! - Annalivia❤️

[@nickywal]

Those early YA/middle grade series were intense, I was looking at the saddle club the other week so many books

[@katiedavidson7955]

I love how she was either reading really easy breezy Barbie books or Stephen King and dark poetry

[@basicbechreader1742]

This video was so fun and totally worth the full hour to watch. This brought back so much for me. Mary Kate and Ashley clothes and make-up lines, frosted looks, the doll maker sites, the shows and movies mentioned. Book wise none of these crossed over for me however I was big into sweet valley so I guess kinda and a little bit of the Babysitters Club. I was also big into Nancy Drew at this time. Amazing video and so much fun

[@littlebookowl]

OOFT I remember those doll makers! What a throwback Hahahha

[@Penelope222]

Flowers In The Attic filled a hole. Young Adult fiction seemed rather sparse - there was the Sweet Valley High style relationship books, but nothing like the YA genre we have now. So we read Virginia Andrews etc because it made us feel grown up but I’m not sure we were old enough to really get the concepts?!

[@wormdoodles]

I agree. In the eighties and early nineties what was considered YA fiction was really children's fiction or middle grade, and really juvenile middle grade at that. That was probably because you weren't really supposed to read something like The Babysitter's Club or Sweet Valley High into your high school years, you were supposed to mature into adult fiction by then. But there were a lot of kids who weren't ready for adult fiction but were too old to read the above-mentioned books, so that's where Flowers in the Attic stepped in.

[@nikoletanight]

The Zoey Fools around books...I read that first one while my much older sister went away to Woodstock 99 and I devoured it in basically one night and then became obsessed. For some reason I begged her to stay in her bedroom while she was away and that's the one book I went for. I had my own doll website that I spent basically every free moment working on, including creating my own pixel art for, I've never done anything so well in my life as that site. My dad also loved Bye Bye Boyfriend by Fefe Dobson and sang it ALL the time. This video really brought me back

[@megz_riley4264]

Sabrina! Charmed! The doll dress up games! The skinny scarves and frosted lids. Ugh love it! Oh my gosh the front braid! And sleeping in rags was my favorite lol

[@RadioGirLF]

That scheme you draw to show us who is who in the book - amazing!

[@pinkpeony4653]

I can’t believe how much you remember!! Everything pre-high school is a blur for me! Couldn’t tell you jack about my 7th grade 😂

[@amberinoface]

as someone whose only three years younger and in the us its so interesting seeing how many of our childhood favorites matchup (or dont!)

[@antonellazinniparis9742]

I didn't read Flowers in the attic but a few years ago Forbidden was a trend and when I readed I was shocked by the amount of effort the author put in the "relationship" and the sex scenes instead of talking of important subjects that the book has (like suicide) and the fact that everyone was screaming about how this book was got me more shocked 😂

[@lesliexreads]

Young me loved How to Deal so much and I've never heard anyone else mention it!! I'm feeling nostalgic.

[@ellenbosco-brennan7262]

I think about Manny Santos’ “I want to be hot. Not cute, not adorable, HOT.” line everyday. Absolutely iconic!

[@nathanielluscombe5277]

Your mom is so nice. 🥺 you’re lucky to have a great family

[@alexis-thenerdybruja3236]

I was born in 94 and everything here has me feeling nostalgic.....like a lot! My brain imploded when you brought up the doll maker site, I spent hours doing that,!

[@sarahteter6310]

Have you see the Netflix new Babysitter's Club series? I never read the books when I was younger, but I really think the new series does some great things.

[@Victoria-ov9yw]

Your mom and dad's matching perms were everything! The clip of her doing your hair was so sweet

[@handmeanotherbook7640]

I want more of your poetry recitation. MOOOORE. love u kayla! Fan from Philippines here!😊😊

[@annarother7085]

oh my god i totally remember that doll maker website i'm cryinggg, i used to go on those websites either on my first computer or at the school lab when i was 11 (2003). also the way you described 'get over it' sounded like an original high school musical

[@wellwithmeri8222]

The rage of having to line up the clothes on the drag and drop dolls still haunts me

[@ronniebessling6802]

When you and Kayla did literally the same exact things in both Lara Croft Tom Raider and GTA Vice City lol. Never actually play just mess around

[@readbookswithclaire]

I love Liam's face when you got a B in English 😂😂

[@Libra_Venus_Reads]

Hilary Duff was my idol! I owned all her cds & movies! any magazine that had her face on the cover had to be mine 😂

[@racheltfisher]

Love her cd’s

[@Booksyl]

Shane West was also one of my all-time crush. And A walk to Remember remains one of my favourite movies. I was watching it daily for a while.

[@nathanielluscombe5277]

Grade seven was a huge reading year for me. I started reading during recess bc the only other thing was soccer... and kids made fun of me for being a nerd but I just played into it and really grew confident with being a reader and not a sports player

[@talentedreads]

I love these videos. I'm your age and looking at the fashion and the movies and the celebrities just bring back so much nostalgia. I remember in 5th - 8th grade at my school we used to have Scholastic Book Fairs, was that a thing in Canada? Weeks before the fair we would get like a paper Scholastic "catalog" of what was coming to the book fair and I remember going through that and marking what I wanted. I would pick up Animorphs, Baby Sitters Club, and California Diaries. Good times ...

[@Ketutar]

I wish I had some sort of notes about what I read and liked in 7th grade... :-( I think Michael Ende's Momo and Neverending Story would be on the list... and I think I read a lot of Agatha Christie and Nero Wolfe... Krabat might be there, too... And I was obsessed with the doll makers, too :-D And the "adoptables", especially magical creatures. My homepage was full of adopted dragons and stuff.

[@LuLuDaPotato]

You definitely unlocked all the nostalgia with fefe Dobson and skye sweetnam 😂😂

[@StoriesForCoffee]

I USED TO DO THE SAME THING FOR GTA WHEN I WAS LITTLE! I’d just take cars, pretend to do errands, and stop at red lights because I wanted to act like I was an adult

[@MandaisManda]

Ahhh My So Called Life....Jared Leto *swoon* still can’t believe this was only one season 😩😩 so glad I’ve got this on DVD to watch whenever I want to experience the nostalgia again! 😁😁

[@gabbisunshine]

Okay this entire video was my childhood. Even the plagiarizing for a school story I didn't have time to finish (mine was a TGIF on ABC movie). AHHH! I love it so much!!!

[@yvetteb.4549]

Get Over it was my movie back in the day lol. Also, I still randomly listen to FeFe Dobson to this day. Great vlog ❤️

[@ammalyrical5646]

Oh god, Charmed is that long ago? Ah, such good memories. For some reason, I link to the show Ghost Whisperer (probably because they were on tv around the same time in my childhood). In primary school, some friends watched Charmed too, and then in secondary school, I discovered that there was a book series based on the show. I never read those books, but my best friend more or less collected them. It's so fun to see what was happening and available for children across the pond when I was 10. Most of those children's books weren't available here as far as I remember but we did have a lot of similar books on the shelves of my library. Most of them weren't series either or series you could read out of order because the only thing of importance that was the same was MCs.

[@alwaysreadingseason]

This was soooo nostalgic. I'm 5 years younger than you so some of it I experienced later than 2002. But everything you mentioned just brought me back. All the TV shows, the butterfly clips, the doll maker game, Oregon Trail, all the fashion (Manny Santos!). I rewatched The Parent Trap the other day and it's still a fave.

[@SharonVictoria90]

Around this time I was the same age as you but as a Dutch kid I read different books. However, the movies, tv shows, celebrities and games you mentioned unlocked so much in my brain 😹 those doll makers! Skye sweetnam! Amanda bynes! What a girl wants is still one of my favourite feel good movies. What a time to be alive this was!

[@sorenkrane]

This was so relatable. 7th grade is tough. Don't worry about the Barbie thing... I played with mine until I was 16 or so. And finding books in a small town, where the library only has book 2 and 5 in a series, incredibly frustrating. Thank you for being vulnerable and sharing your stories.

[@verucasalt4535]

Loving this video! I was 13 or 14 at the time. I was reading Harry Potter, Flowers in the Attic & Lord of the Rings at this time. I was huge into Sailor Moon, Good Charlotte, Friends, Avril Lavigne, Degrassi, & Pokemon.

[@NotJenn]

Of all Lala's Re-reading favourties videos this one was by far the most nostalgic. I spent way too much time with those doll makers. I never did play Yukon Trail but I loved Cross Country Canada. I also remember a guy in my elementry school was in Honey, I think he got his shoes stolen on a train or something so we all got together to watch him in it.

[@crystalsbookishlife]

Man....these childhood reading vlogs give me allllll the feels 🥺❤❤

[@alyciaburns8430]

Okay, I adored the part with your mom! So sweet!! P.S. I want a version of this for when you met and dated Robbie! Like, what was that Kayla like and what was your history together? ❤️ Also, everything you said about the early 2000's is spot on. Lol

[@BetweenLinesAndLife]

There's SO much nostalgia in this, I cannot! These are so appreciate, Kayla!

[@gabbyreads]

I love these childhood videos so much they’re just so fun and nostalgic and you had such an interesting childhood!! 🥰😌

[@taylorgayhart9497]

OMG the Doll Makers!!!!!! I don’t even remember how we found them, but my bestie and I spent HOURS on them!! We would do things like make doll versions of the entire casts of our favorite movies and shows, or we would make up stories and then make dolls for those stories!!! Omg I’m feeling so nostalgic!!!

[@lisab5592]

Stardoll was my fave dollmaker site!! Also I'm American but I love tangled up by Skye and "kiss me fool" by Fefe Dobson because it was the backtrack to a john tucker must die compilation that I watched ALL THE TIME as a young teen Anyway I'm 25 (1995 bb) and love going back to nostalgic childhood things this series brings me life!!

[@emilyarmstrong9734]

This is intensely strange for me. In 2003, I was turning 2, so these fashion trends and movies were like all the things that I aspired to be growing up since they were like the late night shows and movies on Disney. But I couldn’t actually do that cuz it wasn’t popular when I actually had money to buy my own clothes.

[@GraceCC06]

The hair the clips, they are EVERYTHING! Brought back some major memories of my mom putting my hair up in buns with butterfly clips all over my head to curl my hair for school photos 😂

[@Randommusingsandstuff]

these videos always make me wish i kept some things! Love getting these peeks into your life and waves of nostalgia, omg tomb raider and gta memories

[@queen_kat1925]

I remember flowers in the attic alot better then how you're describing it... I read the whole series... and looking back at it I think like how u said I read it for that omg shock factor... it kinda makes me curious to re read it too see if now being 25 instead of a teenager I see it from a different perspective.

[@ashlyngreen7983]

So much nostalgia watching this video. How to deal was my favorite movie. (All the movies from 2002 2003 were epic) Manny Santos! I just bought flowers in the attic to reread. Now you have me scared. That’s not at all how I remember it. I love this series! Thank you for taking us down memory lane. Oh my god, the white/metallic eyeshadow. I lived for that!! ❤️

[@Hillary429]

So many memories unlocked!!!! Loved your explanation about how our generation grew up with tech/social media too, very well put

[@neontiger29]

Ooooo happy to see the How to Deal mention. I'm working on a video right now going back to the Sarah Dessen books that I loved back in 7-8th grade and re-watching the movie. Its taking me forever to finish editing so seeing this is kinda the motivation I needed😂😂

[@OneAndOnlyCaitie]

I saw your tweet for this video and was wondering why it didn't pop up in my sub box! I think youtube had a glitch and unsubbed me from the channel!

[@encyclopediaofelizabeth]

I love how you make the outfits in these videos. Also, 7th grade was the year I stopped using the library because the books were not difficult enough for me. I read The Earth's Children series by Jean M. Auel and I got so far ahead in geography that my teacher let me read everyday and I changed her bulletin boards for her. I always read, but 7th grade got me reading much older books and never picking up short books.

[@haleyray6747]

Its so crazy to me how I relate to a lottt of what you talk about, in this one especially, even though in 2002 I was only 5, i still grew up with the movies, colorful computers, and same cheesy 90s girly books, just a few years later on down the road!

[@narflet]

OMG, your Making Out relationship map was incredible. 😂 The Making Out (and the Making Waves) books were some of my faves and I had the same covers you did. I was off the age where I could go WH Smith’s (newsagents in the UK) every month and buy the latest in the series for £2.99. They felt like graduating to grown up books after reading Sweet Valley Twins. I think the Sweet Valley University books we’re coming out at the same time too and I bought those every month too. I still have all my copies! Unlike you, I loved the handwritten parts so much. I recently found out that the republished ‘Islanders’ versions have been updated so the references and time period is more relevant, which sounds weird. And while there were about 28 books or so in the series only the first 8 were actually written by Katherine Applegate and Michael Grant (or Grapplegate, as they’re known), the rest were ghost written. They also didn’t really end, the series just sort of stopped and it was weird. 😕

[@SomeBunnyReads]

Your 7th grade life is MY 7th grade life... and omg those doll makers what a throwback!!! I thought I was the only one playing with them xD

[@yogiwithabook]

I had that same Mary Kate and Ashley game! The challenges I remember best were trying out for the cheer squad and playing mini golf. You won a piece of a note that was tapped to someone’s locker asking the twins to go to a ... dance maybe?

[@greendayfanatic17]

I work at a bookstore and one of my first memories of working there was seeing a copy of Flowers in the Attic come in that was not only branded as YA, but the cover was straight up a stock photo of Cathy and Chris almost kissing. Never been more disturbed by a cover choice.

[@KaitlynMayReads]

The amount of work and dedication you put into your videos is so amazing! I love your creativity

[@kiwistars]

wow that mary kate and Ashley cover really gave me a flash back

[@agameofpages9818]

Ahh the nostalgia! Get Over It is one of my favvv movies and I’ve never heard anyone talk about! 💓

[@Neverrgreen]

2 minutes in and wow your school was high tech, with actual library cards that also had bar codes

[@Neverrgreen]

Omg the flash backs...yes I remember fefe dobson

[@charanasaurr]

This was such a wild ride! Thanks for the nostalgia trip :) Im now going to spend my day watching old tv/movie faves starting with Honey!

[@paigeabel65]

You literally make the most amazing content 🥳🥳

[@HMSShadow]

I got to be honest. I just read through the Flowers in the Attic links. I read the entire series when I was about 13. (I'm 19 now) I loved it. I loved how taboo the topic was and that I was reading an adult book with adult themes. Looking back now at some of the excerpts I realize just how, unsettling(?) the books topics and messages were. I don't know if I'd ever recommend the series to anyone to read for fun but I think it has its merits to show harmful or problematic behavior/thoughts/phrasing. On a brighter note I loved the video and I enjoy learning about you as a person and how books and things you've done have influenced your present tastes.

[@zibbernautinbookspace]

I'm not sure what it is about band students, but I can usually guess what instrument people play based on their personality. And you playing the flute is sooooo fitting, omg

[@Azlanta]

The playlist 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾 I feel like I was a major Sweet valley high stan, I read the twins series the Jr high series and the senior year one. You mentioning the making out series sent me back, I only read one of them and I have no idea where it went but I now want to find. Also Tatyana Ali was such an icon of mine. Honestly this series of trips down memory lane that you've taken are iconic. They have me wanting to dig up my memories. Although you weren't feeling the hairstyles I loved the looks!

[@alliprokop8615]

omg you are bringing me back with the doll makers!!! I totally forgot what they were called I was obsessed!!