starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Oct 13, 2012 11:22:59 GMT -5
^ I always saw that Stacey moment as foreshadowing what would happen in #43. I don't really see Dawn's phone call as a way to make Travis feel bad. Like wiggir13 said, she just needed to get things off her chest. Seems to me like that was more important than Travis's reaction to it.
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Post by wiggir13 on Oct 13, 2012 13:34:38 GMT -5
They really build up Stacey's stuff! I mean its still a while off but the books keep eluding to her health not being well.
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Post by candykane on Oct 13, 2012 13:44:46 GMT -5
They did build that up quite a lot. Little things like "Stacey looks tired" or "is looking thinner" kept getting dropped in the books leading up to #43. I wonder if that was partly to make it less shocking for readers when she finally landed in the hospital.
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Post by zoar3 on Oct 13, 2012 16:30:13 GMT -5
Good point Starrynight. I never realized just how much time passes between her first "not feeling quite as well" (in either Mystery Diary or Great Romance," and #43. I still will never get (it's mentioned in Mystery Admirer" on page 17 that "there has been talk of her going to see her special doctor again)" that neither of her parents took her to see Dr. Werner or even Dr. Frank in the interim. I think if she had seen a doctor or if perhaps in "Older Boy" she had felt weak and needed to go home, the hospital would have made more sense. This way it's like there are little hints and then wham. I'm glad nothing awful happened, just saying it might have been less confusing/realistic if Stacey had seen someone. I would have loved hearing her call Dr. J for advice or even that nice sounding Dr. Graham from #3. He came across as a good guy. Since we really don't see much of Stacey talking with Dr. J, that would have been nice, too.
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supprazz
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Post by supprazz on Oct 14, 2012 7:47:19 GMT -5
Dawn was straight up with Travis and spoke her mind. The fact he either didn't get it or was insisting she was wrong and it's all in her head, so many guys do that to subconsciously guilt trip girls, trying to convince them they are great guys. I don't normally stick up for Dawn, but in this book, I will I don't recall the Stacey hints, but it makes sense
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Post by sillybillygoogoo on Jan 22, 2013 11:24:19 GMT -5
This book is really bizarre. I would still like to know what Travis's intentions were, if only for curiosity's sake. I like stories with a little bit more closure at the end.
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Post by oldhickory on Jan 22, 2013 17:58:19 GMT -5
i agree, and i wonder how sam and charlie reacted to the whole situation, since they were all friends. do they treat girls the same way, or did they get rid of their creepy friend?
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Post by supprazz on Jan 22, 2013 18:33:54 GMT -5
Did they even know what Travis was up to? I always wondered how he knew where she lived
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Jan 25, 2013 17:55:20 GMT -5
i agree, and i wonder how sam and charlie reacted to the whole situation, since they were all friends. do they treat girls the same way, or did they get rid of their creepy friend? If they knew about it at all, I bet they didn't care much either way. They're not bad people, but they ARE teenage guys. They probably still had a lesson or two to learn about women themselves!
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Post by zoar3 on Jan 26, 2013 17:56:10 GMT -5
^True. I would like to believe especially given their "dad" all three Thomas brothers would try to treat the women in their lives both romantic and otherwise right. I always did wonder though how Travis found Dawn unless he somehow figured out or over-heard her last name and looked up Sharon. Sort of creepy either way!
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Jan 27, 2013 0:05:47 GMT -5
^ It probably wasn't too tough. Everyone knows everyone in a place like Stoneybrook.
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Post by zoar3 on Jan 27, 2013 13:00:20 GMT -5
^That is true!
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Post by wanderingfrog on Feb 9, 2013 10:55:40 GMT -5
I'm reading New York, New York! and Rowena decides that her balloon is a dog named Travis Balloon. Heh, heh, heh.
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Oct 5, 2013 15:39:42 GMT -5
Read this one again last night, and I'm liking it less and less every time I pick it up. In fact, I think my opinion of this book has changed more than with any other. I loved it back in the day; it had shopping, boyfriend stuff, borderline makeover stuff, grilled cheese sandwiches. What wasn't to like? Now, though, I spend the entire book wanting to punch Travis in the face and wondering if the ghostwriter had ever met a 16 year old boy, since they never act that way in real life. Hodges clearly hadn't met one, judging by the middle aged man on the cover....
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Post by candykane on Oct 5, 2013 20:31:53 GMT -5
^ Scott on the cover of Boy-Crazy Stacey also looked way older than a teen! Is this the book with the subplot of the Hobart boys and Perkins girls putting on a play? I can't remember what the play was about but I remember Chewy was in it. Someone said "that dog probably can't even act" and Myriah defensively said "Yes he can! He just doesn't feel like it." It amuses me now because I could see myself making an excuse like that for my own black Lab. He's just so darn cute, it's hard not to excuse his behavior sometimes
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