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Post by claudiascandystash on Sept 27, 2006 14:50:11 GMT -5
Dudes.....DUDES- you have to get this book. If only to laugh at the pictures.
Karen is feeling a bit ugly, so she goes to a "lovely lady" salon to get a new look. What she ends up with is a massive mullet (or fe-mullet), and a larger inferiority complex, which she masks with bows, jewelery, and makeup (why no teacher said anything about a 2nd grader wearing sleeper-red makeup to school, I'll never know).
The topper- Hannie won't let her be in her "wedding" because she looks fugley- MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA.
Seriously- scour the secondhand stores......if you're going to get 1 little sister book, make this one it.
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Post by inge on Sept 27, 2006 16:16:22 GMT -5
Awww, I actually felt pretty bad for Karen!! She looked so ugly in the pictures.
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Post by wanderingfrog on Sept 27, 2006 19:27:37 GMT -5
I don't remember what any of the pictures looked like except the one on the cover. I'll have to take a look at them when I get a chance to unpack my stuff.
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Post by sotypical42483 on Sept 28, 2006 13:06:44 GMT -5
LOL omg I JUST read this last weekend. I was babysitting one of my nieces (a baby) and my other niece (her sister) has a bunch of Little Sister books (she's 7) and I found this one on her shelf and read it while the baby slept.
Anyhow yeah Karen's hair is really hideous in this. I did feel bad for her at the beginning when she was feeling ugly (pre-haircut) but the haircut was just hilarious. The pictures of her with all her jewelry and make up on are classic.
Hannie is a total b*tch in this though. I mean... Karen could easily pick on Hannie for being pudgy, but she doesn't.
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Post by claudiascandystash on Sept 28, 2006 14:40:00 GMT -5
^ total word. Or for her perpetual pigtails.
man, when I get a chance I am SO going to scan some of the pics from the book. Karen as mulletted sleeper NEEDS to be shared...
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Post by sparklymouse on Sept 28, 2006 22:39:40 GMT -5
Nobody ages in the land of Stoneybrook, but Karen got her full head of hair back by the next book. What a shame. I would have loved to hear what Pamela Harding would have thought of that haircut.
Seriously, to all those Karen haters out there, her first 15-20 books were pretty good.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2006 10:37:58 GMT -5
This was one of the first I read! I remember it being referenced in 'Mary Anne's Makeover' as well which was pretty cool. The all-time classic moment is when Hannie knocks a tooth out and is afraid her husband-to-be won't want to marry her because she's ugly. To which he says something along the lines of: "I'm not marrying you for your looks. I'm marrying *you*." Pretty profound words for a 7(ish) year old boy... my little brother is 8 and I can't imagine him having the mental capacity to come up with such deep, poetic words... and even then, he's an 8 year old boy and wouldn't waste them on a 'disgusting' girl!
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Post by aln1982 on Oct 1, 2006 15:14:12 GMT -5
This book was so funny! I've been laughing at this thread all day, too, because of a real-life experience. My aunt is having big problems with her eyes (a diabetic thing) and can barely see - enough blind so that she had to take early retirement (she's a high school english teacher). But she still thinks she can CUT HAIR! And she kept cutting hair even when she had to wear 2 pairs of glasses to see anything. I haven't let her touch mine for years but my parents aren't this smart. Last month, she took a huge gouge out of my dad's hair and he ended up buzzing off all of his hair. But my cheap-o mother (actually I think it's that the whole family feels sorry for the aunt) let my aunt cut her hair yesterday and needless to say, she has chunks gone. I keep laughing and saying "you should have known better than to go to "Gloriana's" I think that's my new name for my aunt. Moral of the story - don't let a blind woman give you a haircut
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Post by booboobrewer on Oct 1, 2006 18:03:03 GMT -5
In my top 5 Karen books. Her calling herself Tiffani, Krystal, Gazelle, etc., after the "trauma" - loved that since I used to make lists of what new name I would give myself if I had the chance. Karen was pretty brave, though, to "play up" her appearance and act confidently about it at that age. Although I used to wonder why her teacher would let a second grader get away with wearing all that makeup.
(Your Aunt Gloriana story is great, aln1982!)
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Post by aln1982 on Oct 2, 2006 14:54:26 GMT -5
I had forgotten about the names. I used to do that too. We have a video of me when I'm Karen's age saying "call me Jessica. I won't answer to anything else." I was obsessed with the character of Jessica in the movie The Man from Snowy River at that time so I guess that's where it came from. Agree about wondering about Ms. Colman and letting Karen wear the makeup but she probably didn't really have any control over it. Can teachers do anything about something like that? I know that there are some things with dress code but I doubt it covers something like that.
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Post by sparklymouse on Oct 2, 2006 22:21:33 GMT -5
^I think if it was disruptive to the class then she could have called Karen's parents, but generally teachers can't control it if their students want to come to school looking like a clown.
Isn't a gazelle a wild animal? Nice choice, Karen. Also I never really noticed until now how many Karen books and episodes of Full House have the exact same plotlines. There was one where Stephanie wanted to change her name. Maybe that's just a little girl thing to do.
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Post by claudiascandystash on Oct 2, 2006 22:31:57 GMT -5
WEll, in my elementary and middle school, if you came in wearing makeup, either the teacher would send you to the bathroom and make you wash it off, or you would get sent to the principle's office and they would make you wash it off. One would even go WITH you to the washroom to make sure all of it was gone. It was definitely covered under the dresscode- along with no "out of the ordinary" hair colours. And it's not like we would come in wearing Karen's harlot red lipstick either, lol.
I do think changing names is totally a little girl thing- when I was four, I convinced my kindergarten teacher that my name was really Sparky, and both she and all the students would call me that. Boy, were my parents surprised when they came in for the first parent-teacher interview, lol.
....and if I was changing my name, why the hell did I pick Sparky? My four-year-old self has some 'splainin' to do.
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Post by lilafowler on Oct 3, 2006 23:07:24 GMT -5
Ms. Colman probably felt sorry for Karen's fug self. I wanted to be Ashley. Clearly I was not an ~individual~ like Dawn
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Post by booboobrewer on Oct 24, 2006 22:25:39 GMT -5
Hahaha...one wonders what her thought process was on this one...
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Post by msstock87 on Feb 4, 2007 2:58:07 GMT -5
This was one of my favorite Karen books. I did feel pretty bad for her, and I remember feeling so mad at Hannie when she told Karen she couldn't be in her "wedding".
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