Penny Lane
Sitting For The Arnolds
The Girl With Colitis Goes By
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Post by Penny Lane on Jun 13, 2008 9:24:09 GMT -5
^#23, Dawn on the coast
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courtky10
Sitting For The Johanssens
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Post by courtky10 on Jun 13, 2008 9:34:03 GMT -5
That's one of my favorite books. Maybe all of them should've been ghostwritten.
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lyricalangel
Sitting For The Newtons
Logan's love-bunny
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Post by lyricalangel on Jun 13, 2008 19:05:17 GMT -5
^It's also one of my favorites. ;D
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courtky10
Sitting For The Johanssens
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Post by courtky10 on Jun 13, 2008 20:19:47 GMT -5
Anyway, back to Claudia's Sad Goodbye. I reread this book and realized I had forgotten all about the part in this book where Mallory said the triplets put a target on Claire's back, and threw things at her all day. They're always up to something, aren't they?
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Post by cokiemason on Nov 8, 2008 3:18:57 GMT -5
No, that was in Claudia and the Sad Goodbye... its after Mimi's funeral, when all the club members are hanging out in the Kishi's den and they are trying not to talk about Mimi.
I love this book. It makes me bawl. Every part of it. I love, love, love the part when Claudia sits in her moms lap, right when her mom tells her about Mimi. Its really sweet, because these girls ARE only 13 years old. They always act older than they are, so its nice to see a little bit of the 'kid' behaviour. I understood Claudia's reactions... being mad at Mimi for dying... Again, THIRTEEN! Just a kid. She is very upset, this is something she has never had to deal with before, and it is very common for people to be "mad" at someone for dying. LOVE the story about Mimi taking young MA, Kristy and Claud for Japanese dinner, then it being closed, and having to go to the high school pizza hangout in her kimono... LAWL x 10000!!!!!!
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supprazz
Sitting For The Newtons
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Post by supprazz on Apr 4, 2010 1:28:04 GMT -5
I just want to say I'm very disappointed with some of the responses. You have no idea how hard it is to be numb over a death, and yes selfish. It's the worst feeling in the world, even worse than crying. You want to cry so badly, but it's all bottled up inside and you start getting exhausted, or if you're fragile, body pain and migraines in place of the tears. Sometimes it takes triggers to get the tears coming again. I lost someone that was so important to me last year and beat myself up everyday for not crying enough though I would cry a minute a day. The body and mind goes into defense mechanism mode. I also discovered I couldn't admit who was in the coffin and thought the bloody prankster would come out laughing and it would be a joke, but it didn't happen. People thought something was wrong with me too. I found this book after over 10 years and read it today, it was so therapeutic. I could completely relate to Claudia, even at the angry parts, I know some of the stuff was rude, but at least she was remorseful about it and didn't feel good about it. And I felt anger and resentment too sometimes, it's part of the stages of grief. Denial, Bargaining, Anger, Depression and Acceptance, I suggest you read up on it. And no, I am not a teenager like her, I'm 27.
Also that's interesting what was being said about a kid theme with Claudia being on her mom's lap, I noticed that too. But I also noticed that the family leaving Claudia "in charge" of Mimi was very adult like too, treating the teens like grown adults, and I was sort of cringing when Claudia talked to Mrs. Addison, try that in real life and you're in for a cat fight. Mrs. Addison seemed like the type that smokes crack all day with her husband collecting welfare cheques or something and don't give a nuts about the kids. Maybe I'm wrong cause of them going to some fancy restaurant somewhere in the book, but that's how I pictured them.
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oldhickory
Sitting For The Arnolds
Heather Loves Boys and Gym
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Post by oldhickory on Apr 4, 2010 14:40:13 GMT -5
i'm sorry about your loss, supprazz. i think it's awful that people gave you trouble for the way you reacted. this book has always been hard for me to read, because i loved mimi's character. i loved everything about her -- not that there's anything wrong with my grandmothers, but she was always the grandmother i wanted. but to be honest, i'm glad that she wasn't around long enough for the ghostwriters to corrupt her.
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starrynight
Sitting For The Kuhns
The Royal Diner of Pizza Express
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Post by starrynight on Apr 5, 2010 16:46:13 GMT -5
I just want to say I'm very disappointed with some of the responses. You have no idea how hard it is to be numb over a death, and yes selfish. It's the worst feeling in the world, even worse than crying. You want to cry so badly, but it's all bottled up inside and you start getting exhausted, or if you're fragile, body pain and migraines in place of the tears. Sometimes it takes triggers to get the tears coming again. I lost someone that was so important to me last year and beat myself up everyday for not crying enough though I would cry a minute a day. The body and mind goes into defense mechanism mode. I also discovered I couldn't admit who was in the coffin and thought the bloody prankster would come out laughing and it would be a joke, but it didn't happen. People thought something was wrong with me too. I found this book after over 10 years and read it today, it was so therapeutic. I could completely relate to Claudia, even at the angry parts, I know some of the stuff was rude, but at least she was remorseful about it and didn't feel good about it. And I felt anger and resentment too sometimes, it's part of the stages of grief. Denial, Bargaining, Anger, Depression and Acceptance, I suggest you read up on it. And no, I am not a teenager like her, I'm 27. Also that's interesting what was being said about a kid theme with Claudia being on her mom's lap, I noticed that too. But I also noticed that the family leaving Claudia "in charge" of Mimi was very adult like too, treating the teens like grown adults, and I was sort of cringing when Claudia talked to Mrs. Addison, try that in real life and you're in for a cat fight. Mrs. Addison seemed like the type that smokes crack all day with her husband collecting welfare cheques or something and don't give a nuts about the kids. Maybe I'm wrong cause of them going to some fancy restaurant somewhere in the book, but that's how I pictured them. I know this post was from awhile ago, but I just wanted to say that the depiction of Claudia's reaction to Mimi's death was one of the best things about the book. Ann actually let her grieve normally, instead of having her bounce right back.
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supprazz
Sitting For The Newtons
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Post by supprazz on Apr 9, 2010 15:18:28 GMT -5
A lot of people were supportive to my surprise, but a few of them didn't get it, or were worried because I wasn't crying cause of the shock I felt that wasn't wearing off. And yeah, Ann's writing is amazing in the book, even from the beginning of the book with how Claudia and Mimi were drinking tea.
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scrounge
Sitter-In-Training
Boo and bullfrogs!
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Post by scrounge on May 11, 2010 1:04:08 GMT -5
I've been thinking about this book lately and one of the things I keep coming back to is that it must have been very hard for Claudia and Janine to make the phone calls telling their friends and relatives about Mimi's death. Claudia goes up into her room to call her friends and it says in the book that she had a hard time repeating the words because she still didn't quite believe it herself. That's the part that gets me, because in some ways you almost feel like if you never say it out loud, it might not be true. Or at least that's how it has been for me. Claudia also seems to echo some of this feeling at the service and later on, by throwing herself into her other activities.
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Post by candykane on May 14, 2010 13:18:31 GMT -5
I've been thinking about this book lately and one of the things I keep coming back to is that it must have been very hard for Claudia and Janine to make the phone calls telling their friends and relatives about Mimi's death. Claudia goes up into her room to call her friends and it says in the book that she had a hard time repeating the words because she still didn't quite believe it herself. That's the part that gets me, because in some ways you almost feel like if you never say it out loud, it might not be true. Or at least that's how it has been for me. Claudia also seems to echo some of this feeling at the service and later on, by throwing herself into her other activities. I felt bad for them having to make the phone calls, mostly for Janine having to call the relatives. It makes sense that Claudia would call her own friends, but I think it would have been really hard for me to call my relatives to spread that kind of news when I was Janine's age.
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oldhickory
Sitting For The Arnolds
Heather Loves Boys and Gym
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Post by oldhickory on May 15, 2010 19:13:42 GMT -5
^ when you think about, that's a huge responsibility for a kid, and janine really was just a kid. i doubt any of us would be able to handle that even now that we're in our 20s.
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Post by zoar3 on Nov 21, 2010 23:51:19 GMT -5
I wish Mimi had been healthy throughout the series. I did love the pizza memory and also very much admired Kristy for her Corrie speech to Claud. Unrelated to Mimi, but is this book the only recount of Nannie moving into the TB's or does it actually happen "live" in a LS book?
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Post by sparklymouse on Nov 22, 2010 17:12:18 GMT -5
No, Nannie and Emily Michelle were already living in the big house when LS started.
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Post by zoar3 on Nov 22, 2010 17:45:47 GMT -5
Okay, so maybe Nannie moved in sometime after Kristy and the Mother's Day Surprise and this one. There's no mention of Nannie living with the TB's in Mary Anne and the Search for Tigger or in Baby-sitters' Summer Vacation. This was the only recount as I said. Anyway, thanks Sparklymouse. Edited to add that I, too, thought it was truly rotten of Ed McGill not to accompany Stacey and Maureen to the funeral. As others have said, he knew Claudia was Stacey's closest Stoneybrook friend and that Stacey would want to lend Claudia all the support she could. He (Ed) should have done the same for his only daughter.
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