bsclover18
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Post by bsclover18 on Aug 29, 2008 12:55:15 GMT -5
Jessi does sound a little too good to be true. I don't remember anything she failed at-Oh wait, she didn't get Peter Pan's role.
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Post by candykane on Aug 29, 2008 14:32:04 GMT -5
Oh, yeah. I forgot about that one. How could I forget, seeing as how she made such a huge stink about it?
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Penny Lane
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Post by Penny Lane on Aug 31, 2008 12:40:24 GMT -5
i think that Jessi is just naturally athletic and talented; there are people like that. I kind of like to think that she was sort of joking about being "Practically bi-langual" in mexico; but I odn' tknow for sure.
I don't mind her being the best at sign language though because she has a background in expressing herself with her body already. I wonder if perhaps she's just extra good at communication because of her dance training.
Fortunately, Jessi can't sing, so shes' not good at everything.
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Post by sparklymouse on Sept 17, 2008 17:43:12 GMT -5
^Ha, well she definitely wasn't a good actress. How many times did Derek Masters try to get her into show business and she just didn't have the It factor.
She was a fairly good athlete. She was a strong swimmer who won a synchronized swimming gold medal after a few weeks of practice. I think in all the SMS school field/spirit day stuff she always participated. She wasn't ever in the anti-athlete group of Mary Anne and Mallory who dreaded stuff and faked injuries.
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supprazz
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Post by supprazz on Sept 18, 2008 8:42:38 GMT -5
Was it that she wasn't a good actress or she just found that acting is not for her and she wanted to stick with what she knows best: ballet?
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Post by wenonah4th on Dec 3, 2008 6:32:53 GMT -5
^That's probably more like it, IMO. You can't do everything!
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Post by toshemeup on Jan 1, 2009 7:03:16 GMT -5
Just finished rereading this one and I think I may actually hate Jessi after all. She was extremely pretentious in this book! "When I'm on stage, I am the dance." "I think a bomb could have dropped and caved in the theatre, and I'd still have been Swanhilda, dancing." Give me a freaking break!
I also call shenanigans on an eleven year old being given the lead role in this performance, it just isn't plausible.
All in all, not a bad book, just boring in general and ridiculous in parts.
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Post by wenonah4th on Jan 1, 2009 10:34:54 GMT -5
There aren't "junior" versions of ballets, after all.
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Post by toshemeup on Jan 1, 2009 15:42:40 GMT -5
Well, I'm sure it's a "junior" ballet since they're a school and not a professional troupe, but there's still more experienced dancers in the school who probably would do as well in the role.
Not to mention, this is a fairly professional performance they're putting on (selling tickets, performing for more than one night), it's not like a school recital. I just find it hard to believe that eleven year old Jessi is really that much better a dancer than other girls at the school.
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Post by wenonah4th on Jan 4, 2009 14:07:00 GMT -5
^Well put. I guess I didn't think it through too much. Sort of a dance-school answer to your basic high school play.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2009 1:44:42 GMT -5
I admit I got a little annoyed at Jessi at this book. I agree about the getting the part of Swanilda (or however you spell it) was a bit unrealistic. Jessi also seems a little "too perfect" in this book. I mean, first of all, she got the part and she's like the youngest and newest in class. Second, how on earth did she become an "expert" in ASL that fast?
Oh, but unlike most of you guys, I enjoyed the book. I knew a little about Sign Language ever since I was in first grade and it has always fascinated me. In the Elementary school I went to, my 1st grade teacher was very fluent in sign language (one time, she even invited a deaf friend over to our class) so she taught us one whole song in sign (though I don't remember it that much anymore) which we always signed and sang everytime all the grades would be together. We did this 'till 6th grade. Oh and in high school, I had a teacher who also knew sign language so she taught us the sign for the whole national anthem of my country. But I forgot it already though.
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celaeno
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Post by celaeno on May 31, 2010 20:53:34 GMT -5
In case anyone missed it, there's a really awkward error in this one:
I guess Jessi wasn't impressed that Matt temporarily gained the power of speech. Jessi would be all like "Sure, the deaf kid suddenly learned how to talk. But did you know that I became fluent in Spanish just by spending one week in Mexico on vacation?"
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Post by murderedmymuse on Jun 1, 2010 1:07:26 GMT -5
I really liked this book, with the sign language and everything.
When I was a teen I stopped reading the BSC at about book #40, so I don't know Jessi of the later books, but early Jessi was always one of my fave characters. And I found her to be mature (as well as looking older on the covers) so I just pretended she was 16 when I read the books - it seemed to fit more.
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Post by wenonah4th on Jun 1, 2010 15:16:00 GMT -5
I think it's so characteristic of Karen to jump on the latest thing the way she does!
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oldhickory
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Post by oldhickory on Mar 1, 2011 14:34:53 GMT -5
i'm really surprised to find that i like the book now that i am rereading. i love the part where jessi says she knows that her mom wakes up and listens to her practicing at the barre, and how it's an unspoken thing they don't talk about.
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