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Post by sparklymouse on May 20, 2009 16:42:18 GMT -5
^Karen Brewer managed to have two birthday books, one for her 7th birthday and one for her 7 1/2 birthday.
I wish Jessi had turned 12, making Mallory feel like the biggest baby/loser ever. Not that she needed more help with that.
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Post by candykane on May 20, 2009 19:50:53 GMT -5
Ha! Now I wish Jessi had turned 12, too. Mallory was always moaning about being a baby and a freak, and Jessi turning 12 would have just added more fuel to that fire. Mal would be wailing constantly about being the youngest member of the BSC, on top of not being allowed to wear sparkles! Oh, the horrors!
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Post by wenonah4th on May 21, 2009 12:45:22 GMT -5
That would be so funny! I wonder how it would have been if Mal had turned 12 and Jessi hadn't.
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Post by Penny Lane on May 21, 2009 13:27:03 GMT -5
^Jessie would still be more mature.
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on May 21, 2009 16:33:56 GMT -5
^Karen Brewer managed to have two birthday books, one for her 7th birthday and one for her 7 1/2 birthday. I liked the half birthday book but I had no clue why there needed to be a book for one. I never celebrated my half-birthday as a kid; nobody I knew did. I think the book was written because they ran out of ideas. They should've skipped it and wrote a book about her 8th birthday but the LS characters never aged either.
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Post by sparklymouse on May 21, 2009 16:57:26 GMT -5
^Oh, they definitely ran out of ideas in the LS series. I think some of the later ones had a main plot, sub plot, and mini sub plot because they couldn't think of a plot big enough to fill a whole book. Along the same lines as Mal/Jessi, they should have had Hannie, Nancy or David Michael turn 8 and have Karen feel inferior to them. (I don't believe Karen would feel inferior to anyone ever, but anyway...) OR! Let poor little "four going on five" Andrew Brewer have a birthday. He put up with Karen for 20 year. Let him be one whole hand in age.
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Post by sillybillygoogoo on May 21, 2009 17:19:22 GMT -5
Andrew turning five would be a cute book. I never celebrated my half birthday either, nor do I know anyone who did. But Karen loved a celebration, didn't she?
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Post by Kylie90210 on May 21, 2009 22:10:01 GMT -5
I so have to agree Sparklymouse... what harm would it have done to make Andrew five, really?
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Post by sillybillygoogoo on May 22, 2009 14:34:32 GMT -5
I never noticed how nice Kristy was to Karen in the BSC regular series, and how mean she could be to her in LS. In LS, she is characterized as an awesome big sister by Karen, but she really wasn't that nice in some books.
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Post by starlett2010 on May 22, 2009 17:14:50 GMT -5
I would have LOVED to see Jessi turn 12. You know, I think that even though they were best friends, Jessi would have easily outgrown Mal. I think that although they had some things in common, Jessi was more friends with Mal out of desperation.That sounds mean, but besides reading and being responsible they didn't seem to have too much in common. Jessi was pretty level-headed and laid back, and if the ghosties hadn't made such a big deal out of her being black and if the series had continued, I can see Jessi becoming popular. She was athletic, easygoing, friendly and confident whereas Mal was always worried about what others thought. I just think that Jessi would eventually drift away when she didn't need Mal so much anymore (which always happens in fan fics). I can't remember what book it was, I think it may have been Jessi's Gold Medal, where Jessi herself actually says that Mal's whining gets annoying. Imagine if Jessi turned 12-she would have never heard the end of it from Mal!
Also, I haven't read too many LS book, but judging from the ones I have read Kristy is portrayed as pretty grumpy around Karen. In the BSC Kristy has much more patience with Karen than in LS. But then again, maybe Kristy is just always grumpy in Karen's mind.
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Post by greer on May 22, 2009 19:17:00 GMT -5
It happens in Jessi's Big Break.
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on May 26, 2009 17:06:12 GMT -5
^Oh, they definitely ran out of ideas in the LS series. I think some of the later ones had a main plot, sub plot, and mini sub plot because they couldn't think of a plot big enough to fill a whole book. Along the same lines as Mal/Jessi, they should have had Hannie, Nancy or David Michael turn 8 and have Karen feel inferior to them. (I don't believe Karen would feel inferior to anyone ever, but anyway...) OR! Let poor little "four going on five" Andrew Brewer have a birthday. He put up with Karen for 20 year. Let him be one whole hand in age. Yeah I think that was the point they were trying to make in the half birthday book, with Karen feeling inferior because she's the youngest one out of her classmates who are almost eight (hence the idea of the half birthday party because she is now closer in age with her classmates). But they should've handled it differently and just had someone actually turn eight instead (it annoyed me so much in the Three Musketeers SS when Hannie and Nancy both said that they were seven and three quarters or something like that. I mean, just turn eight already or say that you are! lol ;D). Hannie and Nancy probably wouldn't make a big deal about turning eight, at least not in front of Karen because they were her best friends and would consider her feelings because she would then be the youngest one. But what would've made for a good book would be one where they celebrated David Michael's 8th birthday and he rubbed it in Karen's face and she would have to be forced to deal with the fact that she's now younger than him and would have to come to grips with that until her own 8th birthday. Would've been a better read than the half birthday book. Now I really wish there had been a book about Andrew's fifth birthday. I didn't much care for him either way because he was mostly just in the background or mentioned in chapter 2 but that would've been a cute book too .
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Post by supprazz on May 30, 2009 10:45:49 GMT -5
After grade 6 and so on, I was criticizing the books and my interests changed, though I still did like them.
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Post by anzuhana on Nov 25, 2009 20:19:22 GMT -5
Before I came onto the boards, I never thought about Richard possibly being David Michael's father since David Michael's name is of two words as well as Mary Anne's or because Patrick never acknowledged David Michael as his son in Kristy's Big News. Nor have I thought about the possibility that Logan and Byron were gay and that Abby and Kristy were lesbians. Also, I never noticed what a big deal was made about Jessi being black.
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Post by Honeybee on May 3, 2010 15:56:50 GMT -5
See, it occured to me that the kids were unusually close in age and I thought they should've been more spaced out so that Mallory could've had an infant sibling and a toddler sibling, but it never occured to me how ridiculous it was that Mrs Pike got knocked up almost immediately after having triplets and even THAT wasn't enough to put her off, because she was pregnant with Nicky not long after Vanessa's arrival!!! Because we met the Pikes when the kids were school aged, that's how I always thought of them, I guess. I notices this, anytime I read the Pike family. Mr & Mrs. Pike like to have sex together. Since, their children are so close in age. Mr. Pike: Time make other baby. *goes to the bedroom.* Mrs. Pike: Yes, dear. *Follows him.* Mallory: *thinking.* My parents spend mostly in their bedroom. Maybe that's why, we don't read more about the parents their either doing it or @ work.
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