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Post by sparklymouse on Oct 8, 2012 20:39:55 GMT -5
Are you guys thinking they dried their hands on their bath towels, or are you suggesting that they should each have their own hand towel as well? Sixteen towels floating around the house at once is bonkers.
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Post by zoar3 on Oct 8, 2012 21:51:41 GMT -5
^Towels galore, yet I would hope they each had a wash cloth and bath towel of their own. Now that you mention it, would there really be a need for 8 hand towels? Maybe one or two per bathroom that got washed fairly often should suffice.
That brings me again to wonder how many bathrooms the Pikes had, upstairs. We can assume, Dee and John had their own. I would hope there were at least 2 others one for the boys and the other for the girls. Even that is an awful lot of stuff! I was thinking it would be whatever towel was closest to the door. I never, ever, imagined thinking so much about towels on Slate St!
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oldhickory
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Post by oldhickory on Oct 8, 2012 21:54:45 GMT -5
don't they have two bathrooms? five people per bathroom is still too crowded for me, but it sure beats all 10 people, and 20 towels, in the same room.
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Post by sparklymouse on Oct 8, 2012 22:13:36 GMT -5
^I lived in a household of five, and we only had one full bathroom with a shower/tub. (We had a half bath too.) We had one or two hand towels that we shared hanging on the bar next to the door. Everyone had their own bath towel (how could you not? Person number two would get a wet towel if you shared.) and we never shared or re-used the same washcloth twice without washing it. The main problem was having enough room to hang stuff up to dry. And that is more information than you all needed to know about my towel usage experience.
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Post by supprazz on Oct 9, 2012 0:56:49 GMT -5
they should have moved to watson's neighborhood
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Post by zoar3 on Oct 9, 2012 12:31:19 GMT -5
Lol, Sparklymouse, the only remaining question is did your towels have flowers that were blue with yellow centers or yellow flowers with blue centers? The only specific Pike house bathroom mention I can think of that might have said "the upstairs hall bath" was when the toilet was over flowing when the Hobart boys stayed the night in "Mallory Hates Boys and Gym." I don't remember if it was labeled that way or as the kids' bathroom when Claire had her shampoo or the Pikes were doing water experiments. I still think their rec room led out to the backyard though I also remember instances of the kids walking out to the yard from the kitchen. We know the kitchen is on the main level above the rec room. IDK, maybe the rec room had a half bath and 2 full upstairs, possibly if they were smart (Dee and John that is) they added a second half bath on the main level.
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Post by sillybillygoogoo on Oct 10, 2012 9:47:49 GMT -5
I liked parts of this book, but not others. Mary Anne was so obnoxious that I had a hard time sympathizing with her. I loved when Dawn switched Richard's socks! Too funny . Too much of the Pikes in this book... I would have liked to have read about some other families, rather than just the Pikes.
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Post by supprazz on Oct 14, 2012 7:54:19 GMT -5
lmao switching the socks was hilarious, cause i like richard
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Post by candykane on Nov 27, 2012 8:16:02 GMT -5
For some reason I woke up with this book on my mind. I was thinking it's unlikely that Mary Anne wouldn't have told any of the other girls about the "ghost" scaring her out of Dawn's room. I feel like she'd at least tell Kristy. Was she so mortified that she decided not to speak of it to anyone?
Plus, I think that Dawn's lie about helping out the sick Pikes that night would eventually be exposed. I can see Mary Anne saying to Mal, "How did things go when Dawn came over to help out the other night," and Mal saying she had no idea what Mary Anne was talking about, and boom, the cat's out of the bag.
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Post by charjo on Nov 27, 2012 9:52:05 GMT -5
Good point Candykane, Dawn would have been better off saying she was going to the library to work on some homework.
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Post by booboobrewer on Nov 27, 2012 19:51:11 GMT -5
Yeah, I would think the chicken bone and the silk rose that appeared and disappeared on her desk would be um, totally creepy? and worth retelling.
And yeah, Dawn's story definitely shouldn't have "involved" someone, especially a club member and her (large!) family.
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Post by supprazz on Nov 28, 2012 18:32:14 GMT -5
But Mrs. Kishi is home for dinner by then
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Post by charjo on Nov 29, 2012 22:08:52 GMT -5
But Mrs. Kishi is home for dinner by then That doesn't mean the library is closed though, the head of the library doesn't have to be there for it to be open.
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Post by supprazz on Dec 1, 2012 21:56:01 GMT -5
That's true too I guess
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Post by BuckinghamAlice on Feb 1, 2013 20:50:46 GMT -5
I just finished rereading this one for the first time in a LONG time, and I was actually complaining out loud about Dawn near the end. I really, really, really hate Dawn in this book. I may be the only one who felt this way, but the whole plan to scare Mary Anne out of their room was almost unnerving. Sorry not sorry, but those are not the actions of a rational person, Sunshine. And then to later have the audacity to say that she shouldn't confess to what she had done to spare MA's feelings and to insist that she had done the right thing was ridiculous. Unhinged much? When she goes off on this laundry list of things for which she wants to get revenge on MA, there was maybe one or two things I felt that she was justified in. Instead of this weird, elaborate plan to scare away someone you claim to love, be the mature person you'd like to claim that you are, man up, and deal with your problems. When she goes on at the end about how they need to be honest with each other and not pretend to like something just to be nice, I wished that I could stamp a scarlet "H" for hypocrite right on Dawn's forehead.
Mary Anne is not blameless, of course. I mean, she whined a little more than was probably necessary about having to leave her house (although, to be fair, I'd have probably felt the same way). And bragging about her boyfriend and belittling Dawn for not having a date for the dance was mean, unnecessary, and (dare I say) insensitive.
But still, I side way more with Mary Anne on this one. Sorry Dawn, but for my money, you're the wicked step sister here.
And as for the subplot, seriously, Mrs. Pike? You've got eight kids laid up at home and you've still got time to play tennis? There were some funny moments of the Pike Plague, but I do have to agree that having all of them sick at once is slightly on the side of unlikely.
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