tiff85
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Post by tiff85 on Apr 19, 2009 11:50:23 GMT -5
I really didn't like Mary Anne's bowl cut. She would look better with a chin length cut.
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Post by zoar3 on Jan 9, 2010 21:37:24 GMT -5
This book , imo was the most boring BSC story ever. It did not grab my interest at all! Even the Pikes at the Movies was so random (BTW why were Nicky and Claire left at home with Mr. Pike)? Tom and Gillian were more interesting and I particularly enjoyed reading Tom's talk with Kristy regarding absent parents, but otherwise, awful. Even Jessi and the Jewel Thieves, was a teeny bit better, I believe.
ITA about MA on the cover. The other thing, is this book keeps talking about the rain and how cold it is. If that is true, then why is MA wearing a cami tank top?!
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Post by booboobrewer on Jan 29, 2010 17:26:42 GMT -5
^Good point. I like this book a lot. I didn't appreciate it so much when I first read it, but it holds up (for me) on multiple readings. I just think it sounds like a lot of fun fixing up an old house and turning it into a cozy mystery bookstore
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Post by shannon86 on Jan 29, 2010 17:36:10 GMT -5
I really love this Mystery book! The cover is so beautiful.
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Post by anzuhana on Dec 29, 2010 10:41:48 GMT -5
Good point. But then the covers don't always match the descriptions in the book. (For example, on the covers Dawn's hair isn't to her waist.)
I liked reading about how the Cates were fixing the bookstore. I would've liked it if the Cates appeared again.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Feb 17, 2011 23:52:24 GMT -5
THIS IS MY FAVOURITE MYSTERY!
I also remember buying this book as a kid. I was with my Grandma at Zellers (a Canadian department store) and I can even vision me looking up at the book, what the bookcase looked like, where it was in the store, the lighting, etc.
I even gave to this sister to read today because, while watching the BSC movie a few days ago together, she commented that she wanted to read a BSC book. I was right on that! I gave her that one, since I had just finished it and I like it and I know she took an English uni class about Poe.
My sister said Mary Anne on the cover looked like how she had imagined her.
Also loved the thundery atmosphere!
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Post by zoar3 on Aug 17, 2011 11:23:32 GMT -5
I am big bookstore fan but still don't like this book. It was long and boring, imo. At least the "Poe" parts were. To be fair, aside from the ocassional "Bobbsey Twin" re-read, I'm not a "mystery" fan. I was also disappointed by this because the Ghostie was Vicki Berger Erwin who wrote a book I did like as a kid "The Dollhouse Murders." Creepy title and not something I expected to like but the characters were great and as a kid I did play with a dollhouse. Back to this book.
Wouldn't it have been more embarrassing for Tom Cates age 10 to be seen with a baby-sitter than the triplets' their mom? I still want to know why Mr. Pike, Nicky, and Claire stayed home.
It was great that finally, without the help of the BSC, parents in general took their kids to a movie and for pizza. Mrs. Pike and Mrs. Engle. ITA with others who said, reading more about Tom/Byron's friendship would have been cool. I always like seeing the triplets as "3 people" rather than "the triplets."
The best part of the book to me was Kristy's talk with Tom about her dad and his mom. Too bad he never came back so they could have talked again, become friends. I also thought MA could have also bonded (similarly) with Tom because although her mom didn't abandon her, when she was much younger and even as a she gets older, it might feel that way.
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Post by wiggir13 on Aug 17, 2011 12:32:49 GMT -5
I liked this one b/c I love Poe! I had to break out my book with his works after reading it. I did think that the "mystery" was really lame. Someone sets up some speakers and lets in a bird and suddenly the house is haunted - wtf??? I didn't really like the characters like a lot of you did, but maybe that is just because I have become so numb to new characters at the end who will never surface again that I don't pay them much attention.
I think it would be really cool to have some old victorian house and have a store on the bottom and an apartment on the top. Perhaps I could call it BSC and co?
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Post by zoar3 on Aug 17, 2011 15:02:09 GMT -5
BSC and Co! I love it! Can I help you run it? Maybe besides, of course, having BSC books, the store can have other "dibbly fresh" merchandise and music from the 80's and 90's.
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Post by wiggir13 on Aug 17, 2011 23:50:38 GMT -5
I like this idea! Perhaps some amazing 80s fashion - some sheep barrettes....
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Post by zoar3 on Aug 18, 2011 11:13:22 GMT -5
Let's do it! Maybe we could also have a line of snowmen stuff.
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Post by booboobrewer on Aug 19, 2011 1:43:11 GMT -5
I was also disappointed by this because the Ghostie was Vicki Berger Erwin who wrote a book I did like as a kid "The Dollhouse Murders. Betty Ren Wright wrote that
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Post by zoar3 on Aug 19, 2011 11:26:13 GMT -5
^Ooops. Sorry about that. It has been eons since I read it! Just "Googled" VBE and she did write a book I read that semi-relates to the BSC "Jamie and the Mystery Quilt." In this book's case "Jamie" (I believe) was a 12 year old girl. Substitute "MA" and there you have (possibly) a much better book than "Maid MA."
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Post by booboobrewer on Aug 19, 2011 14:47:09 GMT -5
ooh, interesting!
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Post by zoar3 on Aug 19, 2011 17:01:00 GMT -5
Here's a link to a picture of the book: www.goodreads.com/book/show/1294467.Jamie_and_the_Mystery_QuiltI re-read it not that long ago and sadly my childhood memories of it were better. Still it could have made for a interesting BSC story. IIRC, it ended with the villian either locking Jamie and the boy she liked in a garage or threatening to or something. That is reminiscent of poor Claudia in "Claudia and the Mystery in the Painting."
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