oldhickory
Sitting For The Arnolds
Heather Loves Boys and Gym
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Post by oldhickory on Jun 30, 2012 23:41:15 GMT -5
i'm not a very big fan of dorothy so i don't mind that they created mrs towne instead, but i do agree about wanting to know what happened at the reunion. it isn't stated, but i bet mrs towne knew dorothy from the shopping at the store.
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starrynight
Sitting For The Kuhns
The Royal Diner of Pizza Express
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Post by starrynight on Jul 2, 2012 20:05:43 GMT -5
I didn't care one way or another about Dorothy, and I don't really blame her for doing what she did. I probably would have done the same thing in her shoes. As for the reunion, I bet she and WIll got married and probably asked the BSC to plan the entire wedding. It's not as if anyone in Stoneybrook would use actual professionals for that sort of thing...
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Post by virgoscorpio on Jul 2, 2012 20:50:12 GMT -5
^ Hahaha! 13 year old photographers are soooo in.
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Post by zoar3 on Nov 19, 2012 20:57:52 GMT -5
This time around, I was more baffled by the bridge situation. I even went back and re-read. Ellen Miles didn't do to good a job (possibly intentionally) of clarifying that the van was trapped between the two bridges. It almost sounded like (at first) they had made it over both bridges and had magically gotten back over the second. They didn't, I just triple checked. All this starts, by the way, on Page 27. The other thing (besides Dorothy, still don't like her), is that it sounded like Charlie was driving the wrong way almost from the beginning. And, it was so strange and convenient, that apparently all the parents who had come to the game, had left, driven out of sight by the time the Krashers began heading home. I had never thought of that before but the time gap did not read all that big either.
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Post by wiggir13 on Nov 19, 2012 21:53:54 GMT -5
I still love this book and its creepy vibe. However, I stand by my statements about how selfish Dorothy was!
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scrounge
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Post by scrounge on Nov 20, 2012 0:43:45 GMT -5
I don't like the resolution of the mystery in this book but I love the idea of spending the night in a deserted house, so I kind of read that part and stop reading before the end of the book. Silly, I know, but it keeps me from getting mad at the ending.
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Post by zoar3 on Dec 3, 2014 11:34:00 GMT -5
I read this book last night while it was still raining (rained most of the day). It is a perfect wet, weather book for a cozy feeling, if I ignore the mystery. This time around I just felt horrible for Will. He loved Dorothy as did Dorothy's father love his daughter. It sure sounded to me as though Dorothy felt the same about both of the men in her life. There's just no excuse, IMO, for pretending to have drowned to begin with but then allowing that lie to carry on for 40 years. I just thought of this right now. Even if Dorothy was far away when her dad passed on and didn't know of his death until years later. Surely between then and the story when Kristy and co reminded her of Will, she must have (I would hope) have felt awful about leaving the way she had and have wanted to go see Will even if nothing else so that he could better live his life knowing she was alive and happy. Lighter and so much brighter, love Jamie in general, he is my favorite charge. So, so cute when he wants to be the cowberry lion and he sings "Somwehre over the rainbow there's a pie." Also I was reminded why I also love Mrs. Newton, she tells Claudia she put Lucy in her baby seat because she "didn't want to come home to a green baby." Truly friendly, funny, and caring in that she immediately asked if Claud wanted to go home and change. I wish charges parents, at least earlier on, Mrs. Newton, Mrs. Rodowsky, even the Pikes had been more apart of stories. My very favorite moment is when Kristy and Watson both have tears in their eyes when Kristy is able to call home, so touching and wonderful to feel how much they did care for one another. Oh and I do love getting to know some of the Bashers and will always wish they (at least Joey (not sure of his age), Jerry (9)and Patti who was 7 like Karen had come into another story. Patti could have even been in Mr. Berger's class. One last thing, this book always makes me hungry and Island Adventure, thirsty (for not drinking anything for a day, awful). Will reread again and just skim next time the mystery. ETA: I finally realized that the storm day was part of a Little House weekend. Karen may have ridden home in the van to yes celebrate with the Krashers but also because she was going to play with Hannie for a little while before her mom came to get her. That made more sense to me than wondering why she didn't just go home with her mom to begin with the way Nicky did his parents.
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Post by wenonah4th on Feb 10, 2015 13:53:27 GMT -5
The resolution, of Dorothy still being alive and nearby, reminds me of some other book- I don't think it's BSC- but for the life of me I can't think of what it is!
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celaeno
Sitting For The Papadakis's
I have to share a room with Vanessa
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Post by celaeno on Feb 10, 2015 17:29:05 GMT -5
I bet that's a type of ending that's appeared in numerous children's books!
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Post by wenonah4th on Feb 11, 2015 7:15:49 GMT -5
It's as though there's a direct quote from some book on the tip of my tongue and yet I cannot place it.
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Post by zoar3 on Feb 11, 2015 19:49:56 GMT -5
^I think, in Boxcar Children Book (I have not read this in ages) Mystery in the Hidden Painting, someone form the past involved with the painting is sill living and in Greenfield.
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Post by wenonah4th on Feb 12, 2015 11:45:16 GMT -5
That's one I haven't read so it wouldn't be that book.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Jan 31, 2016 12:32:50 GMT -5
Poor Will! I felt really bad for him! Must be terrible to live your entire life in mourning for a woman who was only about 30 minutes away, living a new life. I don't get how Dot eventually thought, "Oh ya, Will! I will go see him someday!" I did like the idea of the haunted house - it sounded beautiful. I also liked the scene where the BSC members have a pizza party and toast with their pizza slices, tips out. Also when they described the toppings each sitter likes to eat. I also remember how bad the storm was when Mary Anne sticks her hand out in the rain and rain cascades down onto it.
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livvy
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Post by livvy on May 15, 2022 13:39:43 GMT -5
The safest place to be during a storm is not in the car. What if it crashed? What if a tree was struck by lightning and it fell on it?
Also the girls were overreacting a bit too much. I mean they didn't have to call the hospitals because even if they were in a hospital they had phones and I'm sure Kristy or Charlie would have called their mom from there anyway. They kept calling each other which annoyed me. They shouldn't be tying up phones unnecessarily.
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Post by oldmeanie on Oct 21, 2022 13:00:00 GMT -5
I kind of binged this one last minute because the wifi was out and I was feeling stupidly panicky (anxiety is fun) and this was the only thing that was calming me down.
I really like this one and always have. I don't really think anyone was overreacting- I would probably be just as freaked. I do think they should've stopped calling each other asking for news. Um, wouldn't the person getting the news call you? I do think it makes sense for the other girls to just sleep over at Claud's at that point.
I liked the descriptions of the house, Kristy admitting she's afraid of lightning, admitting she's still shy around Bart, and being nervous about Dorothy's potential ghost. I feel like Ellen Miles does a pretty good job of writing Kristy as a more well-rounded character, because she also wrote Missing Child and I really liked Kristy in that book as well. It just feels like there's more little details like this than in books by other ghostwriters.
I love the description of Claudia's outfit with the tie-dye staining her white clothes, but is that realistic? Despite being practically a hippie, I've never tie-dyed clothes lol.
This one doesn't really have a subplot and I think it works. I think it would've felt tacked on.
I do like this mystery a lot, but what Dorothy did is really... awful if I'm being honest. Really, she practically faked her own death (leading her father and Will to be heartbroken and her father died 6 months later) just so she could travel the world? Look, I'm totally for women (everyone, really) choosing the kind of life they want to live, but this just seemed so messed up and selfish. I think maybe if her father's strictness was more developed her actions would be more understandable. But I don't really understand why she also felt stifled by Will. It's a pretty complicated story that was summed up way too quickly. I kept thinking, the book is almost over, how is that possible?!
Like Dawn, I'm sort of disappointed that it's not actually haunted, but I did like the actual story and explanation.
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