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Post by spazgirl on Feb 12, 2006 10:20:01 GMT -5
I just started this one last night, and I had to comment on the hideousness of the outfit Stacey puts together at Zingy's for her dad's special, CORPORATE dinner. Ahem... "A hot pink (fake) silk jacket which fell to my knees, new black leggings, pink-and-black socks, and a new black body suit. I planned to wear the outfit with black flats, and to dress it up with some jewelery and maybe a couple of barrettes in my hair." What the... ew. I bet she pushed the sleeves of the jacket up to her elbows and teased her hair out a good 10 inches. The subplot about the Pike's ordering spree is kinda cute though.
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Post by macca on Feb 12, 2006 17:03:04 GMT -5
You're not wrong about Stacey's outfit. Disgraceful. Hee! She probably looked like one of the Go-Gos. Or the Bangles. Totally inappropriate for anything corporate. Her dad should've been more angry about that than anything else.
Really, I didn't get the whole dilemma of this book. Stacey's dad said he was going to organise the nurse to come over while Stacey was in NYC. That should've been the end of it. Stacey didn't have to run around playing super-daughter. Ugh, unnecessary dramas. I hate Stacey's parents.
This was probably one book where I actually enjoyed the subplot more than the main plot. It seemed a little sad when they all kept receiving their moondust.
I think Stacey's Choice was one of the last books actually written by Ann herself. Sad.
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Post by jen on Feb 12, 2006 22:01:26 GMT -5
Well, Mrs McGill approved of the outfit... I loved that whole shopping trip! The BSC shopping are some of my favourite moments in the books. I'd love to see Stacey's outfit. Any fan artists around?
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Post by buffykay70 on Feb 12, 2006 23:02:10 GMT -5
i like Staceys Choice, but ur right, that outfit sounds horrendous even by 1993s (or whenever the book was written) standards.
and staceys dad was such a jerk in this book. i felt sorry for poor stacey, and her mum too
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Post by Amalia on Feb 13, 2006 1:56:07 GMT -5
The thing I kept wondering was how come someone (Claudia) would need all of those headbands.
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Post by jen on Feb 13, 2006 2:22:34 GMT -5
Well, she has a lot of hair...
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Post by Amalia on Feb 13, 2006 2:34:05 GMT -5
the thing I thought was sort of funny was that she collapsed in the middle of an interview and then got the job. Was it pity?
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Post by jen on Feb 13, 2006 3:47:44 GMT -5
She didn't get the job that she fainted at! She never made it to the Bellair's interview, just told them that she was laid up forawhile, and then didn't expect a call back. But then she got one!
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Post by Amalia on Feb 13, 2006 3:56:01 GMT -5
ok, you're right. But she got a job before she even went in for the 2nd interview.
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Post by spazgirl on Feb 13, 2006 8:30:53 GMT -5
another thing about this book... The neighbors! Okay, I don't know about everyone else here, but if my mother suddenly became ill I dont think I could call up a bunch of friend's mothers and mothers of kids I babysat for and ask them to come over and watch her. She barely knew these people and they were all up in her house giving her mom pills and stuff. What a magical place this Stoneybrook is...
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Post by macca on Feb 13, 2006 16:25:43 GMT -5
Stoneybrook really had an outdated "village" community where everyone was tight with their neighbors and you could always count on them in a crisis. Their habit of inviting extended family members to move in and help raise the kids is a fairly outdated one as well. Not many people have an aunt or grandmother willing to move in and take care of their children full time. In a modern world (at least where I live) Squirt and Emily Michelle would've been placed in daycare. It's sad, really.
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Post by Amalia on Feb 14, 2006 0:25:50 GMT -5
It seems as if they are a tight-knit, trusting community. Remember when Abby moved in here? Kristy's mom invited the Stevensons to eat dinner and spend the night at her house just so they wouldn't have to sleep in a hotel.
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Post by macca on Feb 14, 2006 17:03:57 GMT -5
^I don't remember much about Abby (I'd lost interest in the books before she joined the BSC ) but that does seem typical of the Stoneybrookites. And I remember Mallory being shocked that the neighbors hadn't made an extra special effort to welcome the Ramseys when they first moved in, by baking casseroles and offering help. Heh. We moved three months ago and still haven't met our neighbors. And we're not even black!
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Post by jen on Feb 15, 2006 4:07:25 GMT -5
*laughs at macca's comment* Heh, I agree. The most contact I have with my neighbours is waving to them from across the street (these are the across-the-street-neighbours... I've never talked to the next door ones).
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Post by macca on Feb 17, 2006 2:05:19 GMT -5
We live in a set of townhouses on the same block and I wouldn't recognise my neighbors if I passed them in the street. Occasionally I might smile politely at them, but that's it. Hell, we used to live in an apartment block and so our neighbors were in effect living in the next ROOM and we didn't associate with them (other than the occasional "hi") ... I would never in a million years have asked them to watch a sick family member. And if they'd bought a casserole to welcome us... well, I'd be appreciative, but I'd think it was incredibly (dibbly) weird.
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