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Post by booboobrewer on Nov 10, 2007 17:09:46 GMT -5
except this family had a father around (was there a Mr. Cheplin? I don't remember one.) I was going to ask the same thing. I think Mrs. Cheplin says something about her husband when Stacey first meets her but I could be wrong. It kind of reminds me of Mrs. Lowell, another difficult mother - she mentions her husband, but we never see/hear from him. Hmm...
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Post by aln1982 on Nov 10, 2007 17:23:07 GMT -5
^ I always assumed there wasn't a Mr. Cheplin. Now I'm curious if he was mentioned. ;D
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Post by scrounge on Nov 10, 2007 21:33:29 GMT -5
I'm not at home so I can't grab the book to check, but I'm pretty sure Mrs. Cheplin is divorced, because at one point the kids mention to Stacey that they'll be going to their dad's for part or all of the summer and she has to mentally recalculate how long it will take her to earn enough money for a convertible when she turns 16.
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Post by aln1982 on Nov 11, 2007 0:47:28 GMT -5
^ I think I remember that, too. I definitely remember the part about the convertible. ;D I feel the same sort of hunger for more money as soon as I have a little - just like Stacey in this book, so I can relate.
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Post by janey83 on Jan 11, 2008 9:27:59 GMT -5
The subplot was awful -- Jessi is downtown with Becca & Charlotte, and they see Logan and Kristy in a store, where Kristy is helping Logan pick out a ring for Mary Anne, and like, all the kids take it upon themselves to get involved. I would have been so mad, Kerry even cancelled the dinner reservations that Logan had! Even Claire comes in calling Logan a "two dimer!" Mary Anne thinks the whole thing is sweet, and then the kids want to make a fancy dinner for them -- Vanessa's the main server, I think. And poor overworked Stacey ends up in the kitchen cooking up hamburgers. When I got to that chapter, it was like the charges were popping out of the woodwork; Jenny just happens to be in the kitchen and Becca was doing something, Matt Braddock was setting the table -- too too much. It was kind of funny to see Kristy get threatening letters, and she assumed they were from the Bashers.
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Post by aln1982 on Jan 11, 2008 11:31:51 GMT -5
I wasn’t a huge fan of the part of this subplot where the kids get mad and Kristy and Logan, either. But it does sound like something I would have done as a kid so I can’t judge them too harshly. ;D (even though now it annoys me). I had forgotten the "two dimer". ;D I do feel for Stacey when she ends up cooking the dinner but like that part pretty well, mostly because I always enjoy reading about the charges cooking, serving food, etc. Not sure why I do – maybe because it brings back good memories of when my cousins and I were “servers” at some church dinners as kids. I always loved doing those types of things. ;D
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Post by greer on Jan 12, 2008 12:36:54 GMT -5
the necklace robert gave stacey always sounded really pretty to me
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Post by aln1982 on Jan 12, 2008 17:41:35 GMT -5
^ To me, too. I can't stand Robert but at least he gave a good gift. ;D
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Post by mckay on Jan 12, 2008 18:30:21 GMT -5
I don't remember that bit - what did it look like?
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Post by booboobrewer on Jan 12, 2008 18:52:41 GMT -5
I think it was a necklace with a prism looped on it.
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Post by sugarmonkey on Feb 18, 2008 18:13:43 GMT -5
I would have been angrier with the kids for ruining v-day. And all the kids in the neighborhood getting together is something that would only happen in a BSC book (which and be good or bad depending on how you look at it.)
I would've set clear guidelines with Mrs. Cheplin from the very begining. Stacey did say that the kids would come first, she could've used that as a main point. I do like how Stacey recognized that Mrs. Cheplin was going to keep her on continuous probation so that Stacey would have to keep proving herself. It could've also been thrown in that constantly paying more was also a way of baiting Stacey into putting up the job.
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Post by starrynight on Feb 20, 2008 15:09:26 GMT -5
I'm not a big Cheplin fan, but I could identify with Stacey and her calculations of how long it would take her to save up for a car. Even now, I do that when I think of another place I want to go, or something big I eventually want to get.
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Post by aln1982 on Feb 20, 2008 17:16:02 GMT -5
^ I do stuff like that, too. And it seems like the more I make, the more I want to make. ;D
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Post by Penny Lane on Apr 18, 2008 15:44:05 GMT -5
Stacey was kind of selfish in the beginning when she was all "My Job! I'll take it. No, don't split it up, i want to work every day after school for 2 hours". I mean, she didn't even offer to see if any of the other girls wanted to take different days or anything.
Then Kristy got mad because she was going to be late to BSC meetings because she was working? What was that about? And Kristy wanted Stacey to turn the job down? Since when do the BSC turn down clients?
Mrs Cheplin was a real pain in the ass. I mean, what was she thinking when she called the Baby-Sitters Club? And why would a high school girl be more responsible? I stopped being responsible in high school. Also, someone in H.S. probably wouldn't have had dinner in the oven and the kids working on activities and homework either.
I totally get the money thing.
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Post by sparklymouse on Jan 9, 2009 21:20:52 GMT -5
I laughed at the sophisticated gifts these kids got each other. Tickets to a Broadway play? A ring at 13? I liked how Mrs. McGill asked if Logan and Mary Anne were going steady now since he bought her a ring and Stacey pointed out that they had already been going steady. How did Mrs. McGill not know that Logan and Mary Anne were practically an old married couple by then?
Didn't like the Cheplins. Stacey had to do laundry almost every day. How many outfits did these people wear each day? There were only three of them. Adam should have been taught how to start straightening his room up on his own so it didn't have to be done by the baby-sitter all the time. I would have preferred if Dana faked illness because she was afraid that she couldn't do those physical activities with her friends rather than her just being a brat who wanted things her way.
I did like Kristy getting hate mail from the kids. I loved how it was some bad rhymes and Mallory was immediately like "Vanessa, what do you know about this?"
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