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Post by booboobrewer on Apr 30, 2012 22:56:37 GMT -5
^Just oj, milk, sugar, ice, etc. celaeno posted a recipe link upthread that's helpful. I want one now too
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scrounge
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Post by scrounge on May 30, 2013 0:34:57 GMT -5
Mrs. Porter was really nice to Karen in this one, showing her the photo album and talking about all the things Karen is good at. Of course Karen still acted like a brat in all the books that came after and said Mrs. Porter was a witch.
It seems really stupid to me that the photo album Mrs. Porter showed Karen was the same book Karen had seen in the garage when she and Hannie and Nancy cleaned it earlier. Who keeps photo albums loose in their garage? That's just asking for it to get ruined. Maybe Karen was mistaken and the book she saw in the garage was just a book. That would make a lot more sense.
I like the Doll Sisters subplot and the Musketeers really did work hard to earn the money for those dolls. I didn't even think Watson was being a cheapskate, because a doll is not like a properly fitting bicycle, so it's appropriate to let Karen earn money for it if she wants a particular doll and it's not her birthday or Christmas.
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Post by supprazz on Jun 2, 2013 3:14:21 GMT -5
Well I guess I can't relate and got many things I wanted, in addition to my birthday and multiple holidays. Sometimes I used allowance, but was mainly a spoiled brat who would get one thing I wanted, and then a bunch of things on my birthday. He could have just bought her the doll then and had her pay for half if not the full thing, she was just 7. But then again, I don't blame him for not wanting to pay for the other two girls dolls.
Maybe Mrs. Porter just did not want to think about her past anymore and kept the books in the garage for that reason. That's understandable, and I agree it was rude of Karen to still think she's a witch later on, though that could have been the fault of ghost writers.
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Post by scrounge on Jun 3, 2013 13:16:10 GMT -5
I'm not saying that Watson couldn't/shouldn't have bought her the doll. After all, they took the kids to the mall just for the opening of the new toy store, and then didn't get them a toy, seems almost mean. But of all the times Watson made Karen pay her own money for things (angel tree topper for the family tree, properly fitting bicycle, etc.) this one annoyed me the least.
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Post by supprazz on Jun 4, 2013 8:24:45 GMT -5
I forgot it was the opening of a new toy store. In that case, they all should have gotten a toy, and Nancy and Hannie's parents could have given them money to purchase something, and that's how they could have bought them on the first day.
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Post by zoar3 on Feb 1, 2014 23:53:10 GMT -5
I read this book last night before Karen's Valentine. Good thing, too because the other is definitely a whole lot more cheerful. I loved Mrs. Porter and her talk with Karen starting on page 78. Karen shares how disappointed she is in not being too good at cartwheels and seems to be feeling low. Mrs. Porter shows Karen some photos of her (Mrs. P) as a young girl skating. Mrs. P goes on to share how even though she was very good at skating, she wanted to be an actress but that didn't work out. At the end Mrs. Porter reminds Karen of all the things Karen can be proud of (softball team, business-woman, in this the 3 M's do odd jobs to earn money for the dolls, etc). She also reminds Karen that gymnastics can still be a fun thing for Karen to be a part of, she doesn't have to be the very best (naturally) at it. I liked that message. I do think Karen and Mrs. P could have shared a sweet friendship had Karen (and mostly the ghost-writers) allowed. I was never into gymnastics and preferred stuffed friends to dolls but I did love how enthusiastic Karen and her friends were about earning and caring for their doll sisters.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Feb 1, 2014 23:55:21 GMT -5
I really wish I had taken gymnastics in my youth. I think that it really sets up your body to be in good physical shape (kind of sets your body tone for the rest of your life, if that makes sense). Also, I feel like it's one of the more physically challenging sports.
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Post by msstock87 on Feb 2, 2014 1:21:19 GMT -5
I read this book last night before Karen's Valentine. Good thing, too because the other is definitely a whole lot more cheerful. I loved Mrs. Porter and her talk with Karen starting on page 78. Karen shares how disappointed she is in not being too good at cartwheels and seems to be feeling low. Mrs. Porter shows Karen some photos of her (Mrs. P) as a young girl skating. Mrs. P goes on to share how even though she was very good at skating, she wanted to be an actress but that didn't work out. At the end Mrs. Porter reminds Karen of all the things Karen can be proud of (softball team, business-woman, in this the 3 M's do odd jobs to earn money for the dolls, etc). She also reminds Karen that gymnastics can still be a fun thing for Karen to be a part of, she doesn't have to be the very best (naturally) at it. I liked that message. I do think Karen and Mrs. P could have shared a sweet friendship had Karen (and mostly the ghost-writers) allowed. I was never into gymnastics and preferred stuffed friends to dolls but I did love how enthusiastic Karen and her friends were about earning and caring for their doll sisters. I loved Mrs. Porter and her talk with Karen too. She gave Karen some good advice in this one. I think seeing Karen and Mrs. Porter could have had a cute friendship too. I will have to re read this one soon.
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Post by booboobrewer on Feb 2, 2014 12:51:06 GMT -5
I always liked their talk too and the illustration of them sitting under a tree.
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Post by zoar3 on Aug 24, 2014 17:32:40 GMT -5
^Me, too Boo Boo. I picked this to read last night because of its mention in "Karen's Wedding." Now, I'll have to read about Marilyn and Carolyn being gymnasts briefly in Dawn and the Surfer Ghost (I looked that up)I'm not much of a gymnastics fan so also preferred the doll subplot though Karen wanting to perform at the mall made me laugh to think of the "Teeter Streeter" from Mallory on Strike. Back to this LS story, :, I had forgotten how much I enjoyed this book. One of my other very favorite parts is that at the mall Karen wants cotton candy. Did she (in any book) ever get to have any? I still love how she wanted to rent a cotton candy machine in "Karen's Carnival." I am hoping to get to Disneyland in December and will be so happy to have fresh from a machine cotton candy again and I will think of Karen. I used to also love the orange creamsicle popsicles and orange juliuses were good, too.
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Post by booboobrewer on Aug 24, 2014 18:57:50 GMT -5
^the treats are good in this book, haha. The mall trip chapter was probably my favorite scene from a Karen book as a kid. I remember on ice cream day in elementary school, those orange creamsicles were called Dream Bars and I thought they were sooo good. But my usual weekly choice was a fudge bar
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Post by zoar3 on Aug 24, 2014 19:36:05 GMT -5
^Smart lady, nothing like chocolate. Apparently, I went to the wrong school--cute ice cream day. I just remember always at day camp, we always had popsicles at the end of the afternoon. The mall trip really was fun. I know the storyline was all about the Three M's finding the dolls but there was not one word from Emily, Andrew, or David Michael, all of whom, went to Toy Palace the first time. That reminds me it would have been cool had "Toy Town" in "Stacey and the Mystery at the Mall" been "Toy Palace" instead to show some extra connection between LS and BSC.
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Post by CharlotteTJohanssen on Aug 24, 2014 19:47:13 GMT -5
This is one of my favorite purely because of the subplot. The doll sisters were cute and I like how they earned all of the money themselves.
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Post by Honeybee on Sept 28, 2014 22:05:59 GMT -5
I like the mall scene. That was my favorite chapter. Those doll sisters, sounds like good doll to have. I was suppose do gymnastics, when I was little. But, they weren't cheap. Since, I was flexible.
Who names they're dog Station Wagon? Was the puppy born in station wagon or likes to ride in a station wagon or bark at the station wagon. No wonder, I forgot the name of that poodle.
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Post by zoar3 on Sept 28, 2014 22:48:31 GMT -5
^Wasn't Holly's (from Snowbound at Jessi's Dance School) named Caboose? Maybe Station Wagon and he are friends as are their human owners? I'm ETA having checked page 122 of Snowbound. Caboose is Holly's doll. Tattoo is her dog. I had the right vehicle just wrong namesake. I probably have trains on my mind having just read the scene in Abby and the Notorious Neighbor where Adam Pike wants to name the triplets' go cart team, "The Pike express," and Jordan says that sounds too much like a train--it does, but still was a cute name.
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