supprazz
Sitting For The Newtons
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Post by supprazz on Jun 5, 2013 9:15:38 GMT -5
Sometimes it is I remember her wearing polka dots, but I don't think it was linked to any decades before her time. She just liked mixing different patterns.
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Post by anzuhana on Nov 26, 2014 11:17:49 GMT -5
The way Claudia remembered the groupings reminds me of how in elementary school, the first letters of the words were used. The one that I remember is the math equations (please excuse my dear aunt Sally, for the parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition and subtraction). There's supposed to be one for the planets but I don't remember it.
I still don't like Mark. I can't believe that people thought that he was cool and that he won king of the seventh grade. He just gets more annoying with every book I read that has him in it.
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Post by Sideshowjazz1 on Feb 23, 2016 16:24:17 GMT -5
My main problem with the book is that the other sitters think twelve-year-olds are SO beneath them. And when Claudia mentions that Mark is the same age as them and just got held back, they are like "Why didn't you say that before?" Maybe because there is NOTHING wrong with being a year younger? It doesn't necessarily make them less mature. Claudia's new friends aren't really mature, but then her eighth-grade friends aren't either. They have no right to tease her or make fun of people in her grade. I mean, if seventh-graders are so immature, then they probably shouldn't have let Jessi and Mal into the club at all.
Also, did anyone else pick up that Josh had a crush on Claudia at this point in the series? I thought about it, but decided he didn't when it got to Claudia/Mark. But I'm glad I turned out to be right in #113...and he was definitely a better boyfriend than Mark.
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lilafowler
Sitting For The Johanssens
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Post by lilafowler on Feb 29, 2016 20:57:08 GMT -5
Guys, Mark Jaffe is an attorney in Princeton, NJ. This is not a drill.
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Post by greer on Mar 1, 2016 6:06:38 GMT -5
^maybe he is Ann's childhood friend. Princeton also has a Stony/Stoney Brook River.
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oldhickory
Sitting For The Arnolds
Heather Loves Boys and Gym
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Post by oldhickory on Mar 30, 2016 11:35:43 GMT -5
It would be pretty funny if the real Mark Jaffe and Ann were friends, but she didn't paint him in the most flattering light. I liked the breakup at the end because it was pretty mature of both of them to recognize that it just isn't working and walk away, but before that Mark spends about 13 chapters being inconsistent and inattentive.
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Natasha
New To Stoneybrook
BSC Reread Update: no 115:Jessi's big break.
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Post by Natasha on Mar 11, 2018 9:28:40 GMT -5
Kristy needed to be slapped in this one! First she tells Claud not to let her friends tie up the phone. Um, hello? Its her phone! She can use it anyway she wants.
Then she tells Claud she's in the eighth grade not seventh and keeps repeating throughout the book. Claud is in seventh!
Sean really scared me in this one. Such a troubled kid using verbal anger as a way to let it out? That's even worse than burning books! The kid needed to be in juvie as therapy is clearly not working. :/
The Queen and King thing was stupid. Kind of pointless.
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livvy
Sitter-In-Training
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Post by livvy on Jun 28, 2022 13:57:51 GMT -5
Voting for a King and Queen at a prom is really stupid. I'm glad we didn't have that at schools in Australia. It's just such a dumb shallow tradition.
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livvy
Sitter-In-Training
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Post by livvy on Jun 28, 2022 13:59:51 GMT -5
He's a bit like a Pete Black character. "Okay, we've got a plot involving some creepy kid, who can we use? Oh, let's use Mel Tucker, it fits!" No he wasn't even around during that time.
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Post by oldmeanie on May 26, 2023 22:18:44 GMT -5
I oddly don't know if I read this one before or not. The text isn't super familiar, but I know what happens (mostly).
I actually kind of liked this one, even though it's... pretty dumb, honestly XD. I'm kind of weirded out by the 7th grade randomly having a prom and choosing a king and queen. Wtf?! Why? Middle School dances are NOT that big of a deal.
For some reason, the "dumb humor" kind of worked for me in this one. I don't know why, but this got me:
“Yeah, but it was more like, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if,’ not ‘Let’s do it,’ ” Mark said. “You know, hypocritical.”
“Hypothetical,” Mrs. Hochberger gently corrected him. (Personally, I thought Mark had it right.)"
There's a LOT of stuff like this in this book. I also thought that the Kindly Pass Claudia Oreos, for Goodness Sake was oddly clever.
So it's weirdly entertaining. Even the subplot is alright (I have NO IDEA what his parents were thinking allowing him to be home alone after the library incident! That's crazy. He's obviously disturbed), although it's still so stupid to me that 10 is super super immature (honestly, when I was growing up, that WAS old enough to be home alone. Not really to babysit, though) and 11 is randomly a mini adult. Lol wtf.
Also, I feel bad for Corrie. Does anyone else find it weird that she and Claudia bonded over art in #26 (and it was implied that Corrie was going to become Claud's "favorite" like Charlotte is to Stacey), then it was like... never mentioned again? It's not even mentioned in this book.
Mark is annoying, but he seems to be pretty realistic for a 13-year-old boy. I like Josh more, though, and it's obvious he likes Claudia in this book (maybe it's also because I know they end up together). Also, I HATE how the older BSC members, especially Kristy, act in this book. Do they realize how weird it is to tease Claud about hanging out with younger kids when Mal and Jessi are RIGHT THERE? And they tease her about possibly kissing a 7th grade boy, when Stacey has dated 15 and 16 year old boys before, which is MUCH more sus (imo, one year difference in middle or high school is no big deal. 3 years? Kinda weird).
Love how Claudia finally tells them off:
"When you make fun of seventh-graders, do you ever stop to think how it makes me feel? Not to mention Jessi and Mal? Well, I have news for you. Some of my seventh-grade friends are twice as mature as you. And Mark Jaffe happens to be just as cool as any eighth-grader I know.”
I guess I'd give this a 6. It gets some extra points for never being boring, but the premise just isn't great.
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