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Post by anzuhana on Feb 2, 2012 12:31:30 GMT -5
It's another inconsistency.
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Post by booboobrewer on Feb 2, 2012 14:13:01 GMT -5
Same thing in Dawn and Too Many Sitters, Carol calls upstairs asking what Dawn and Jeff want for breakfast.
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Post by anzuhana on Feb 2, 2012 14:18:08 GMT -5
So I guess we should assume that Ann decided that Dawn's house in California is two stories instead of one.
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Post by greer on Feb 2, 2012 14:28:13 GMT -5
So I guess we should assume that Ann decided that Dawn's house in California is two stories instead of one. I always chalk Dawn's house being two stories as a mistake and prefer the original description of Dawn's house as canon. I don't think it's that common for houses in Southern California to be two stories unless you're really rich, or maybe I'm just confusing it with South Florida.
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Post by psychoseal on Feb 2, 2012 14:38:55 GMT -5
Or maybe they built the second storey while Dawn was in Conneticut
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Post by virgoscorpio on Feb 2, 2012 14:53:39 GMT -5
I always chalk Dawn's house being two stories as a mistake and prefer the original description of Dawn's house as canon. I don't think it's that common for houses in Southern California to be two stories unless you're really rich, or maybe I'm just confusing it with South Florida. This really bothers me (the 2 story thing). How often are we told that Dawn's cali home is a bungalow that's really spaced out -- with skylights everywhere.
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Post by greer on Feb 2, 2012 16:08:19 GMT -5
I always chalk Dawn's house being two stories as a mistake and prefer the original description of Dawn's house as canon. I don't think it's that common for houses in Southern California to be two stories unless you're really rich, or maybe I'm just confusing it with South Florida. This really bothers me (the 2 story thing). How often are we told that Dawn's cali home is a bungalow that's really spaced out -- with skylights everywhere. Well, it wouldn't be a bungalow--that's a very specific thing. It was described as a Spanish-style and in a U-shape around a courtyard, which is not a bungalow. Bungalows are like, the house Mildred Pierce lives in the beginning of the both the movie and the miniseries. I really like them: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_bungalow
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Post by virgoscorpio on Feb 2, 2012 16:39:29 GMT -5
^ In Canada, tough, we call homes with only one story bungalows (even if they don't have an attached veranda).
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Post by greer on Feb 2, 2012 16:46:22 GMT -5
^ In Canada, tough, we call homes with only one story bungalows (even if they don't have an attached veranda). Ahh. Here it's a specific architectural style, as outlined above.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Feb 2, 2012 16:48:39 GMT -5
^ And it's outlined in the article you mentioned. So basically you're right about what you're saying. I think "we" just took the word and made it more generic. I can't think of another term for a one-story home besides bungalow
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Post by greer on Feb 2, 2012 18:26:46 GMT -5
^ And it's outlined in the article you mentioned. So basically you're right about what you're saying. I think "we" just took the word and made it more generic. I can't think of another term for a one-story home besides bungalow in the US there's "ranch," but I'm not sure if that applies to, say, cottages.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Feb 2, 2012 18:44:51 GMT -5
That sounds like a very southern term to me. We'd never say ranch to describe a house unless it was, well, an actual ranch!
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Post by greer on Feb 2, 2012 19:33:30 GMT -5
That sounds like a very southern term to me. We'd never say ranch to describe a house unless it was, well, an actual ranch! They're very mid-century. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranch_house Think of a typical suburban home from the 60s or 70s and you'll probably picture a ranch in your mind.
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Post by BuckinghamAlice on Feb 2, 2012 20:38:16 GMT -5
I try to ignore inconsistencies like that. I prefer to think of Dawn's CA house as ranch style. They're very common in SoCal. Where I live (which is more or less SoCal, though considerably farther north than where Dawn lived), there's a good mix of one story and two story places, but it seems split level is most common.
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Post by zoar3 on Dec 30, 2012 11:49:42 GMT -5
This one really does take (save Farewell Dawn and the flying cup) the love-hate between MA and Dawn to new levels. But first, top of page 110, why was Jack's wedding Dawn's special day? It read from the get-go that was how Dawn indeed felt so hey maybe it made sense that MA would too? I did like though when MA said something along the lines of being glad to see Dawn happy (finally) that her dad was so happy. I did like Dawn's "toast" and Carol's very sweet reply on page 160. In fact, I have to agree with others up-thread who have said Carol came across as more endearing than Sharon. I would have enjoyed seeing more of her especially had she again gotten cotton candy at some event (she did at the carnival in Dawn and Whitney). she just sounded like a very nice lady. My favorite part of this is still along with others, Jeff's list and his interactions with Mrs. Bruen. Now there's an "under-developed" relationship I would have enjoyed reading more of had Jeff factored into more stories, of course. I still wish he had spent "a semester" in Stoneybrook as he contemplated at the end of the book and lol preferably without Dawn! Not one of my favorite books at all but there were some sweet and cute (Suzi's cookie trail) moments.
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