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Post by candykane on Aug 14, 2008 23:50:45 GMT -5
Does anyone else wish that Mary Anne's visit to Iowa had been written differently? I always wished that we'd actually SEEN her go to Iowa to meet her grandma, instead of just hearing about it in her letters to everyone back home.
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Post by toshemeup on Aug 15, 2008 5:16:41 GMT -5
candykane: We read about it more in Mary Anne's Portrait.
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Post by candykane on Aug 15, 2008 20:17:51 GMT -5
Thanks. I haven't read that book, now I'll have to check it out.
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Post by tiff85 on Mar 7, 2009 17:57:42 GMT -5
I also think this is one of my favorite mysteries. Mary Anne deserved to know what happened to her mother and what her life was like. I like to read things about Mary Anne's background. I was shocked myself when I first read about Mary Anne living with her grandparents because Richard wasn't ready to be a father.
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Post by starrynight on Mar 9, 2009 10:16:32 GMT -5
^ Actually, Mary Anne knew what happened to her mother all along. That part wasn't a secret. The only part that was a secret was her time with her grandparents.
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Post by oldhickory on Sept 12, 2010 16:00:26 GMT -5
i just reread, and i liked it a lot more than usual. the part with MA in the cemetary next to mimi's grave was so touching. i thought it was so sweet how she went looking for her mother's grave and found mimi's instead -- in a sense she did find her mother, because mimi was the only mother figure MA ever knew. i was crying like a baby.
even though it was kind of slow, the stuff about heritage day was cool. for once, it actually made sense why the main plot mirrored the subplot. there was no way the cutouts looked as good as the book said they did, but the festival sounded like a lot of fun. stoneybrook is a small new england town, and it seems like it would be so rich with history. (unlike my hometown, which is famous for its barbeque :] ) definitely a good read.
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Post by greer on Sept 16, 2010 1:40:14 GMT -5
Didn't Reese, ME do something similar in Baby-Sitters' Haunted House?
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Post by booboobrewer on Sept 16, 2010 11:15:55 GMT -5
Reese did a Founders' Day thing.
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Post by BuckinghamAlice on Sept 22, 2010 13:19:50 GMT -5
This was probably my favorite mystery of the few I've read. I totally understood why Mary Anne felt like she did, and I even understand why Richard did and said what he did. This was a good way of almost retroactively explaining some of that overprotectiveness he exhibited in MA's younger years.
That bit with Logan and his shirt was ridiculously cute.
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Sept 22, 2010 17:45:48 GMT -5
^ I would have been just as embarrassed at that age to see a boy without his shirt on as Mary Anne was.
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Post by booboobrewer on Sept 22, 2010 18:20:52 GMT -5
It cracks me up that while Mary Anne blushes, Kristy is like "Wooo Logan!"
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Post by greer on Oct 2, 2010 9:25:34 GMT -5
Hahahhaa. I probably would blush more at WOOO LOGAN than shirtless Logan.
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Post by anzuhana on Dec 10, 2010 21:08:19 GMT -5
I like the book but I found it strange that Elizabeth forgot about Mary Anne living with her grandparents until Kristy reminded her. It seems like something that one doesn't forget.
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Post by malloryfan14 on Jan 13, 2011 0:02:23 GMT -5
Did anyone notice that in this book Mary Anne's mother's name is Alma Baker, and possibly in the first couple BSC books, and yet most of the other times after this, her name is changed to be "Abigail"?? Huh? Did anyone else notice that Mary Anne's mom had been given TWO names? C'mon, Ghostwriters.
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Post by candykane on Jan 13, 2011 0:26:56 GMT -5
Actually, she was first called Abigail in Mary Anne Saves the Day, but I think every other book after that referred to her as Alma.
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