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Post by Honeybee on Oct 21, 2011 16:15:00 GMT -5
I agreed Karen was mean in this book. Waston, should explain to Karen more about the pin. Why he give Kristy the pin not her.
I love the baby shower surprise for Ms. Colman. That was nice of Ms. Coman's students.
When did Karen & Andrew start living once month? In this book, they stayed at their dad's house in January. Move back to their mom's house in February. Cause, I thought they live with their mom. Stayed over their dad's every other weekend.
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Post by andrew on May 22, 2016 0:53:32 GMT -5
Agreed that Karen seemed a little too spoiled and bad in this book, taking the pin easily (although I guess the idea that Kristy wouldn't wear it would make sense to her and a lot of other kids) and then not feeling too sorry for losing it. I could easily see Watson and Elizabeth thinking they're all one family, not real and step, and Karen seems to generally feel that way too so her insistence that she was the real daughter was particularly mean. It might have read differently if it was published early.
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Post by CharlotteTJohanssen on Jul 1, 2016 0:07:57 GMT -5
I really enjoyed Kristy and Watson's relationship in the book. Wish we saw them act more like this in the regular books.
Also, both Karen and Kristy look adorable on this cover.
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Post by booklover85 on Apr 21, 2017 23:36:37 GMT -5
I thought Karen was wildly out of character in that book. Up until that point, she loved and worshipped Kristy and loved having her as her big sister.
I can picture the pin incident happening when Karen is just entering her teens and Kristy has graduated from high school and Watson gave her the pin as a graduation present.
Subconciously,as Karen grew older, she became more resentful of the Thomas' family for taking her father's time. She tries to hide the resentment and jealousy, but when Watson gave Kristy that pin, she snapped...
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Post by andrew on Nov 13, 2017 10:29:05 GMT -5
I have to wonder if Karen liking as Kristy and Ms. Coleman as The Best is partly because she has little to compare them with but still has a hyperbolic personality.
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Post by Sideshowjazz1 on Jan 18, 2019 5:00:44 GMT -5
I don't know if this was just me, but I didn't like Kristy or Karen in this book. Even though Kristy had a right to be mad at Karen, she showed her feelings in a very childish way. While in the original series she can do this, it's weird to see her doing it from Karen's perspective, since Kristy is almost grown-up in her eyes.
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Post by LadyDru on May 20, 2020 8:22:32 GMT -5
I need to reread this again as I only remember certain details but I have to say it is amazing how time can change a person's perspective..like when I read it in 6th grade I had originally thought Kristy was mean for not lending Karen the pin, though stealing it was not cool..thought the "you are only his step-daughter" bit was savage but still understandable.." but now as an adult, I speak as a person who absolutely can't stand when my stuff are touched without permission, especially if I said no..if a person did that and then lost it/messed it up, I would have held a grudge for a VERY long time. On the other hand, I still find it unfair that when Karen has legitimate reason for not sharing something, she gets in trouble, but when Kristy and her brothers don't share, they get off scott-free.
Agreed on wishing the pin was found right after Karen panics and she is like "never mind, whew, that was close"..then we wouldn't have a story, would we?
Also think Watson should have talked to Karen.
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Post by sparklymouse on Feb 18, 2022 14:05:55 GMT -5
Wow, I think think I'm the only one that felt sorry for Karen in this book. ;D I just read this one and I can understand her jealousy, although I agree that taking the pin was wrong. I really wish that Watson had talked to her and explained why he was giving the pin to Kristy. I had to laugh at the note Karen wrote to Kristy though: Kristy, I am sorry I lost the pin. You should have let me borrow it. Sincerely yours, Karen P.S. I am attaching the paper pin I made in case you want to wear it. (See, I let you borrow my things.)I liked the note and the fact that she wrote it in gold marker. "I wanted the note to be written in gold letters in memory of the pin." Ah, yes. That will help numb the pain. Nobody has mentioned the fact that some distant relative that Watson barely knew sent a pricey family heirloom to him in the mail. Like, regular old mail. Not even a signature required? Kinda funny how Karen had the angel and the devil on her shoulder twice. (She didn't call it that.) The devil won both times, lol. I thought it was interesting how Karen tried to give Kristy a bracelet from Lisa's family and didn't understand why Kristy wouldn't take it. I always thought Ms. Colman was in her 50s, but here she was having babies and stuff. My third-grade teacher (also my favorite teacher) was pregnant that year, and we also threw her a surprise baby shower. I don't remember much, but I remember my class went to another classroom to "watch a movie" and then snuck out to the gym after my teacher went back to her room. Ms. Colman's party was sweet and well organized. Did she have pregnancy brain to not notice that her entire class stood in a pack, whispering on the playground for a week?
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Post by livvy on Dec 11, 2022 10:54:12 GMT -5
I've noticed that when Karen doesn't get what she wants...she sulks. I couldn't believe how mean she was to Kristy. Just because she's not biologically related to Watson doesn't mean she isn't family! Family doesn't always mean blood family.
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Post by sparklymouse on Dec 12, 2022 6:20:03 GMT -5
There are grown women out there who would have reacted worse than Karen did.
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