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Double Date | Rosamond Du Jardin

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Gingham curtains. Malts at the drugstore. Small-town high school with hayrides and skating on the pond. Twins, Pam & Penny, move to a small suburb outside Chicago where Penny tries to become her own person and not just a twin copy of Pam, the more vivacious one. This book (and the other 3 in the series) are my comfort food right around the start of school. Nostalgia for a perfect 50s innocence that never existed, but that I always wanted to.

Leftcoastzen Oh wow ! Old library binding! Please tell me the page edges are silky soft from wear! 1y

Aims42 This sounds delightful! I live in the Chicago suburbs so I looked up the town the girls lived in. I wonder if the fictional Glenhurst is a combination of 2 actual suburbs of Glen Ellyn and Elmhurst 🤔 1y

dabbe @Leftcoastzen Oh yes, they are, and they have that ol' library bookish smell for real! It's the original version from 1951. 🤩🤗😍 (edited) 1y

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dabbe @Aims42 You are correct! She and her husband operated a bookstore in Glen Ellyn when their kids were growing up, and a school in Bloomingdale is named after her. 🤩🤗😍 1y

Aims42 @dabbe That is SO COOL! 1y

dabbe @Aims42 🤩🤗😍 1y

marleed This whole thread just makes me smile! 1y

Vansa These sound like Sweet Valley High for the 50s! 1y

dabbe @marleed 🧡💚🧡 1y

dabbe @Vansa Exactly! Just a different era. 🧡💚🧡 1y

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dabbe

Double Date | Rosamond Du Jardin

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@ShyBookOwl

“Penny Howard loitered self-consciously outside the west entrance of Glen Township High, waiting for her twin sister, Pam.“

After seeing all the scary movies from yesterdays #TLT posts, I had to read something tame and fluffy: hence my bazillionth reread of DOUBLE DATE, part of the Pam & Penny series from the 1950s by Rosamund du Jardin. I feel better now. 🤩

CBee Hi Denise! Did you get a package from me? It says delivered so I wanted to be sure it made it 😅💚 @dabbe 1y

dabbe @CBee It was hiding on my side hedge and not on our porch where stuff usually is placed! I would have never looked if you hadn't alerted me! I just posted about it! Thank you, my dear. I'm full of collywobbles right now! 🤩🤗😍 You made my day, week, month ... 💚🩷💚 1y

CBee @dabbe phew!! Glad it made it! Enjoy 💚💚 1y

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dabbe

Double Date | Rosamond Du Jardin

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Ah, yes, the 1950s ... such a wonderful time to be a woman: staying at home, keeping house, caring for the children. And what's a high school girl's dream? To find a man, of course! So that she can be just like her mother hanging chintz curtains in the kitchen window. I still love them, though, and I love the history that comes from them. Even if the history is a wee bit complicated. 😊

rubyslippersreads I have the same copy of Double Feature shown, but haven‘t read it. I‘m glad Image Cascade is reprinting a lot of these old titles. 2y

dabbe @rubyslippersreads These books are nostalgia in all positive ways for me, even with the 50s-wife-at-home expectation. 2y

Eggs Nostalgia Heaven 👌🏼 2y

dabbe @Eggs The book covers scream of it don't they? 🤣 2y

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Double Date | Rosamond Du Jardin

Reading The Holiday Swap had me thinking of this series I read as a teenager. Anyone else read these?

I remember Pam and Penny swapping places. And a vague sense of the 1950s - all girls are supposed to get married. Part of me wants to reread just to see how cringy they are now.

Ruthiella I know I read one book featuring twins when I was in junior high. I pre-date Sweet Valley High, so it might have been one of those! 3y

Crinoline_Laphroaig @Ruthiella I'm definitely Pre Sweet Valley High! I've been trying to remember the name of this series forever and finally Googled the right combination of words. 3y

LeahBergen These look fun! 3y

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