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Post by zoar3 on Mar 12, 2009 23:05:00 GMT -5
I got teary when MA cried at the end, too. So, very sad and poignant. I just wish this book had not been the end but a beginning of "better" (I am not a fan of the FF series) things to come. Definitely like a "Memory Book" as someone suggested. If this story had to happen might have worked better perhaps a month or so after Middle School Graduation and then "Everything Changes" would have been the perfect title for the transition between mid summer and start of HS.
I loved how the kids came together and wrote the contest entry--wish we could have gotten to read it! Also, found out that the BSc won! Also, like most everyone else, fire is one of my fears in fact I've never even liked fireworks!
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Post by tiff85 on Mar 16, 2009 15:43:25 GMT -5
I can agree. This book was a real shocker to me. When I first looked at the cover, I didn't want to believe that Mary Anne's house had burned. It was surreal to me. I never thought this would happen to Mary Anne. I can't even look at the cover. It's.... scary.
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Post by firecausesburns on Mar 29, 2009 7:50:40 GMT -5
I actually really like this book. I ebooked it (only one I've ever done), so for a while I didn't want to look at it, but that was because I'd spent way too much time with the thing, not because it really affected me. I think that was partly because since I hadn't been following the series from the start, by the time I started reading them it was already pretty late in the series, so it didn't signify the end of an era so much for me. I'm 18 now, I started reading the books in about 1996. That might also be why I don't hate Abby the way that some people seem to, she was already a part of it when, or not long after, I started reading. (I read them in a very disjointed order.)
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Post by tiff85 on Apr 9, 2009 17:22:38 GMT -5
I've been reading the BSC since first/second grade and it never get's old. The first time I read about Abby was when my friend bought me Abby's Twin as birthday gift. I personally like Abby. we have quite a few things in common.
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Post by mafan4life on Oct 28, 2009 13:11:58 GMT -5
It is pretty depressing. But what I kept thinking was can't the writers give Mary Anne a break? So many tough things happen to her throughout the series; I mean her Mum died when she was a baby, her Dad was pretty strict, he later remarried (Sharon) and she acquired a new step family and had to move out of the home she was raised in, her step sister/best friend (Dawn) left the country to be with her other family, she has boyfriend trouble in general, her friend at school (Amelia) was killed in a road accident, and now to end the regular series, a fire burns down her house and she loses all her possessions. It's no wonder Mary Anne went to see a therapist at some point in the series. I don't blame her! when did Ma see a therapist? I never read one with one in it. I did this one. FF: Poor Ma! Her father was super-overprotective again! I felt bad for her, thank god Sharon came to the rescue.
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Post by booboobrewer on Oct 28, 2009 17:39:39 GMT -5
Mary Anne's therapist shows up in Memory Garden, I'm not sure where else.
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Post by mafan4life on Oct 30, 2009 9:04:55 GMT -5
oh, i'll have to read that, i never knew that at all. I dont have that book.
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Post by zoar3 on Oct 30, 2009 13:48:32 GMT -5
Claudia recommends Dr. Reese to Sean in "Claudia and the Perfect Boy" and later to George? in "Live from WSTO." I WISH we had gotten to read about MA's initial visits with Dr. Reese during the time apparently right after she and Logan broke up.
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Post by alula on Oct 30, 2009 23:51:19 GMT -5
She first refers to seeing Dr. Reese in the Chain Letter book, so it's hard to tell exactly where it fits into the series.
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Post by mafan4life on Nov 3, 2009 10:01:40 GMT -5
I was just asking, so i can read that book.
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Post by helsieboo on Nov 3, 2009 11:06:19 GMT -5
I would have liked to read about Dr Reese too - I think it could have been a good storyline and it's a shame that it's only referred to.
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Post by mafan4life on Nov 3, 2009 16:07:45 GMT -5
I never read anything with a therpy.
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Post by anzuhana on Nov 8, 2009 12:35:08 GMT -5
I hate that Mary Anne's house burned down. I wish that the house was saved or that Mary Anne just had a nightmare about the fire. And yeah, the foreshadowing in Mary Anne Saves The Day about the wiring being up to date is freaky, even if it wasn't supposed to be intentional.
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Post by mafan4life on Nov 24, 2009 10:58:03 GMT -5
She did had the nightmare about it at the end and kept having it in Mary Anne's Revenage in the Friends Forever specials.
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Post by anzuhana on Nov 24, 2009 13:43:32 GMT -5
^ I know that Mary Anne had nightmares about the fire after it happened but I wish that the house didn't burn down and that instead she had a nightmare about the house burning down and that in reality, it didn't burn down.
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