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Post by lovelylemontree on Jun 1, 2006 14:45:53 GMT -5
That definitely makes sense for why she would marry Jack, but that marriage fell apart because of those differences. Why would she turn around and immediately marry someone even more controlling and obsessively neat? Oh, wait, I know. Because Sharon's an idiot.
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Post by macca on Jun 1, 2006 19:22:27 GMT -5
^ I just wonder how she manages to hold a job for any decent amount of time.
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Post by lovelylemontree on Jun 1, 2006 20:43:31 GMT -5
I had actually never thought of that. How does she function in the workplace? No way her boss and co-workers find her scatterbrain tendencies endearing or only mildly irritating.
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Post by lilafowler on Jun 2, 2006 12:27:23 GMT -5
Remember (in some early Dawn book, probably #15 because Jeff was being portrayed as an ass here) when Jeff pointed out she spilled ink on her blouse and commented that everyone in the office was probably laughing at her? Sharon got pissed off, so he might have been right.
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Post by supernatural babe on Jun 2, 2006 12:49:01 GMT -5
This book was a let down. The title was misleading. I really was expecting Mary-Anne to be wicked.
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Post by greer on Jun 2, 2006 16:00:48 GMT -5
That's not oblivious or absent minded or scatterbrained. That's someone took too many drugs in college and it's a miracle her children turned out normal. That explains so, so much. Why else would someone put a high heel in the crisper?
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Post by macca on Jun 2, 2006 17:42:42 GMT -5
No way. Her scatterbrain tendencies are not mild by any stretch. The woman can barely function in her own household without her daughter's assistance.
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Amalia
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Post by Amalia on Jun 3, 2006 1:35:26 GMT -5
^ I always thought that Sharon tried very hard and made herself focus and concentrate on not being so absentminded at work or school because she knew that she could not screw around there. But it may be hard to put so much effort into that, so she takes a break from it whenever she's at home? Or maybe she does it to amuse Dawn? Maybe she thinks that Dawn secretly thinks it is endearing? And she does it in order to cheer Dawn up to make up for uprooting her life and dragging her halfway across the country?
I always chalk up incidents of Sharon's outrageous absent-mindedness to the exaggeration of 13-year old girls. If girls of that age are given the opportunity to narrate a story about their, then they might like to have fun in the process.
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Post by booboobrewer on Jun 3, 2006 4:02:14 GMT -5
Considering that Dawn is supposed to be this neat, tidy person when compared with her mom I found it funny that while MA is dressing for the dance and says she wants to look good for Logan, Dawn is like "I'd rather find a guy I can be a slob around."
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Post by ktag on Jun 3, 2006 5:36:51 GMT -5
I wonder whether Mary Anne semi-consciously knew or guessed that it was Dawn in the passage. Cause, seriously? Dawn was so d**n obvious. Yeah, let's throw a bunch of pine cones at the wall and make a bunch of noise all at once. Then she just walks in the house right after doing everything. Nope, not suspicious at all.
Mary Anne gets really nasty when she's not happy. "Don't think of yourself as someone who can't get a date, okay?" STFU, Mary Anne. Even if it is true that Dawn can't get a guy in Stoneybrook.
Why does Richard organize his shirts from light to dark, but his socks alphabetically? Also, alphabetically?! How can that possibly be intuitive? Did love Dawn switching them.
Why in hell is Mrs. Pike playing tennis with 8 sick children at home?
Also loved in the last chapter: "I'm trying to get smarter." Kristy's smart ass. "Is this how it feels to be a genius?" "NO!" Mallory's scars in "unmentionable places."
Charlie transports 8 members of the BSC in his car. 9 people?! I always imagined the Junk Bucket to be a Beetle or something, but now I'm hoping it isn't. Why are the parents okay with this??
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Post by macca on Jun 3, 2006 6:11:20 GMT -5
Bizarre that the stunning blonde bombshell is the one struggling to find a man, while the rather-more-average MA has the most sought-after guy in Stoneybrook.
That she felt the need to share with Jessi.
Ugh, that whole scene annoyed the F out of me, even when I was a little kid. I remember reading it and being like, huh? Wasn't Dawn supposed to be the "calm" in the storm of her mother's scatterbrainedness, the one who responsible for maintaining some degree of order in the Schafer household?
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Post by wanderingfrog on Jun 3, 2006 10:52:50 GMT -5
Actually, that could be possible. My brother and I were talking one day about how we didn't understand how our dad can possibly be a lawyer when he can't remember anything, and we came to the conclusion that all his brainpower goes to remembering lawerly stuff, which is why he can't remember anything else. Maybe Dawn's mom is like that. (Just for the record, although my dad is a lawyer, he is not named John. Or Richard. And he has never yet left a high-heeled shoe in the crisper.) I still think Sharon is too much of a fruitbat for her scatterbrained stuff to be explained by much other than a neurological condition, but she might be able to control it much better at work because she knows it's completely crucial to function more or less properly there.
If I had eight sick children, I'd take any opportunity possible to get out of the house as well. It might not be the most "motherly" thing to do, but taking a little break might keep you from going completely insane.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2006 11:46:55 GMT -5
Sharon's scatterbrain is just taken way too far. It's sort of like Claudia's spelling. I think it starts out pretty passable -- the woman is a bit frazzled and forgetful, she tends not to pick up after herself. But a pump in the crisper?! Some of the examples were just ridiculous.
I actually love the way there is no resolution or consequences to Dawn scarying Mary Anne. It's one of the best parts of the book. It's refreshing to see a BSC member to something so totally manipulative and wrong and not confess and apologize or something.
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Post by starrynight on Jun 9, 2006 12:29:44 GMT -5
Charlie transports 8 members of the BSC in his car. 9 people?! I always imagined the Junk Bucket to be a Beetle or something, but now I'm hoping it isn't. Why are the parents okay with this?? I always saw the junk bucket as some sort of big, old sedan that practically takes up two lanes all on its own. Even so, I definitely think they would have been squished. Can you imagine if they'd gotten pulled over by the cops with all of them in that one car???
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Post by Amalia on Jun 10, 2006 1:41:26 GMT -5
^ When has he been a control freak towards her? I thought it was only towards MA and his clothes.
I would think that he would try to treat her really well because he doesn't want her to leave him? He doesn't want to lose her like he lost Alma to cancer?
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