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Post by arnell24 on Dec 26, 2007 15:42:26 GMT -5
what is a ebook
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blossom114
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Post by blossom114 on Dec 26, 2007 18:07:29 GMT -5
i have it as an ebook helsie... want me to send it to you?
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Post by arnell24 on Dec 26, 2007 19:52:27 GMT -5
Yes please.......
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Post by aln1982 on Dec 26, 2007 20:31:22 GMT -5
That's great you have it as an ebook, blossom. I have it but haven't read it for a while so don't remember it well enough to give a good summary. It is a good one, though. Definitely worth the read as a summary wouldn't do it justice - especially the climax with getting the kids out of the house. Still makes my heart speed up. ;D
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Post by helsieboo on Dec 27, 2007 4:23:39 GMT -5
Hi Blossom, if you could, that would be wonderful! My email is helen_tamblyn@hotmail.com.
Thank you! x
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Post by arnell24 on Dec 27, 2007 22:14:26 GMT -5
this a really good book....thanks for the ebook blosson do u got claudia and the friendship feud on ebook
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blossom114
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Post by blossom114 on Dec 27, 2007 22:17:55 GMT -5
no all i have are the ones i pulled off of the LJ site.
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Post by firecausesburns on Dec 28, 2007 7:59:40 GMT -5
This is probably my favourite BSC book, and that's saying a lot because it isn't one of the ones I've had since I was a kid and read a million times. I skip over the whole St Patrick's Day parade thing, but I've read the rest of the book more than once. I think it was a really good way of dealing with something so heavy - there are plenty of times they've tried to write something heavy but failed, but this one really worked. I kind of wanted to give both the boys a hug.
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Post by aln1982 on Dec 28, 2007 16:59:20 GMT -5
^ Cute avatar. ;D I also really like this one and the way it deals well with such a heavy issue. Glad to hear I'm not the only one who wanted to hug the boys. This probably sounds extreme, but I've actually wanted to get inside the book and hug them and keep them safe somehow. This one really effected me.
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Post by janey83 on Feb 4, 2008 10:59:05 GMT -5
At the beginning of the book, Claudia is totally hogging her cousin, Lynn. Did she learn nothing from the time Lynn was born?
The shamrock parade was a bit much. And the grand marshall had an obvious Irish name -- Maggie O' Meara -- not every Irish surname starts with an O'. Anyway.
I thought that it was good that one of the babysitters actually went to an adult -- Mrs. Kishi handled the situation very well, and it wasn't something that could have been accomplished by an emergency BSC meeting.
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Post by aln1982 on Feb 4, 2008 15:46:00 GMT -5
^ I also really enjoyed the Kishis in this one. I just read World's Cutest Baby and think that Claudia doesn't even realize it when she's hogging Lynn. She gets so excited that her brain kind of shuts off (more than usual ;D)....
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Post by booboobrewer on May 14, 2008 17:51:08 GMT -5
I finally read this one, and I thought it was really well-written. I l liked it a lot. Agreed with everyone who said they wanted to give the boys hugs I felt awful for them the whole time. I liked how it was mentioned at the end that Mrs. Nichols' sister had a puppy, as Nate said he would take good of one if he had one and "always be nice to it." I didn't really mind the St. Patrick's Day parade. I laughed when Margo or someone needed to put a sign that said "I am a shamrock" on her shamrock costume I thought Claudia hogging Lynn in the beginning was totally sweet. She just adores her cousin.
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Post by starlett2010 on Jun 18, 2008 17:40:34 GMT -5
Whew! Agree with everyone else, this book was pretty good with dealing with sensitive issues. So many of the later books fail at that and I was pleasantly surprised when I read this one. I sort of wish that instead of Abby they would have made Erica the new member of the BSC. She seemed really nice in this one.
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Post by lilafowler on Aug 16, 2008 15:13:34 GMT -5
I just read this one for the first time, and I have to agree with everyone that the issue of child abuse was handled surprisingly well for a BSC book. Snaps for Ellen Miles! (I seriously shudder to think what Peter Lerangis would have done with this plot.) Seriously, I teared up at like five different points in the book -- in particular, when Claudia wishes Mimi could have lived long enough to see Lynn and then when she thinks that Nate isn't much more than a baby.
This is probably horrible, but I couldn't help but laugh at AMM's end-of-book note about child abuse -- which is then followed with "Happy reading". I know it's how they always end, but the incongruity of it after "if you know a child who is being abused" made me giggle.
And, yeah, the St. Patrick's Day parade subplot was lame, although I suppose it was necessary to not completely depress the hell out of the target audience. The part about the float with the pageant winners made me wonder if the older, Carlos-dating Sabrina Bouvier was Miss Teenage Stoneybrook.
I thought it was especially creepy that Mr. Nicholls called Claudia's line, rather than the Kishis' family phone number. I mean, it made sense, but...creepy!!!
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Post by helsieboo on Aug 19, 2008 2:55:21 GMT -5
It really was creepy!
I felt so sorry for Claudia and for once, the BSC handled it in a realistic way by getting the adults involved. The book was done very well. It was also probably the hardest to read, as it was so sad.
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