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Post by aln1982 on Feb 2, 2008 17:28:32 GMT -5
^ I agree about liking the ending because I can see myself doing it. I think it added to the show anyway. ;D As for the cover, responding to an earlier comment from Mckay about the drumstick legs, I had to laugh when putting my book away because her legs in the tights now make me think of drumsticks. They always did look funny but now I know why. ;D Don't like this one as well as Turkey Day but it did have its good parts.
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Post by Kylie90210 on Mar 26, 2008 22:25:02 GMT -5
I didn't see anything wrong with two Thanksgiving dinners in one day, other than they ate too much. Thats speaking as a kid of divorce though. I thought Karen's extended role was unfair though. She obviously knew it was wrong, otherwise she would have said something... but no, she wanted to be the star. Sneaky!
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Post by Karen Brewer on Mar 27, 2008 16:34:50 GMT -5
^I really liked how they were all able to eat Thanksgiving dinner in Karen's Movie Star, but that was because Lisa and Seth were coming home from Chicago.
I haven't read this book yet, I'll have to put it on my LS-to-order list!
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Post by alula on Mar 28, 2008 3:05:18 GMT -5
I would have been appalled, and resented the hell out of that, as a seven-year-old.
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Post by wenonah4th on Mar 28, 2008 20:08:14 GMT -5
^ You mean if you were one of the other children in Karen's class?
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Post by alula on Mar 29, 2008 2:58:33 GMT -5
^Yes, but I remember being pretty annoyed by her reading it, too. I worried a lot as a child about fairness, and I spent my preschool years in Montessori school, which puts a lot of emphasis on community membership. I would have considered what Karen was doing to be cheating, and to be extremely selfish.
(Of course, I've been told that my parents may have gone overboard on making sure I didn't grow up with a sense of entitlement, to the point where I can never bring myself to recline my seat on an airplane for fear of bothering the person behind me and I have a terrible time saying no. But that's another story.)
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Post by wenonah4th on Mar 29, 2008 13:40:06 GMT -5
Alula, I'm kind of the same way about the airplane seat.
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Post by booboobrewer on Mar 29, 2008 14:40:37 GMT -5
I don't like reclining either. And it does bother me when other people don't have the same sort of consideration. It's worse when I have to take a bus, because the person in front of me will go ahead and recline their seat, and I'm like, you did not just do that. So annoying.
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Post by Karen Brewer on Apr 1, 2008 16:41:26 GMT -5
I just read this one. I thought it was funny how, towards the end of the book, Karen mentioned Lisa being uncomfortable around Elizabeth and not really wanting to come inside to wait for Karen and Andrew, but that she (and all the grown-ups, really) deserved to be uncomfortable after the day Karen and Andrew had. ;D
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2008 21:20:31 GMT -5
lol, I love that about karen!
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Post by Lauren on Apr 3, 2008 0:32:12 GMT -5
I don't like reclining either. And it does bother me when other people don't have the same sort of consideration. It's worse when I have to take a bus, because the person in front of me will go ahead and recline their seat, and I'm like, you did not just do that. So annoying. I hate when I'm flying and the person in front of me reclines their seat. I have really long legs so it's extremely painful when they do this. Most people are kind enough to put their seats back up when I ask them to, but there have the few that have been really nasty about it. If only I could afford to fly first or business class.
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Post by supprazz on Sept 12, 2008 10:06:51 GMT -5
I loved reading the descriptions of all the thanksgiving food and reading about the play they were developing, in terms of the music, costumes, food they were playing etc.
I thought it was cool how karen was a triple threat, but in Karen's Grandmothers, she wasn't into that stuff at all, Nancy was, did anyone else catch that?
I thought her dissing Pamela was really funny "you'll be a barf-face" haha
you know how Ms. Colman wrote down two other ideas for Thanksgiving projects? It would have been nice to do those in future books if they weren't done already.
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Post by sparklymouse on Sept 12, 2008 13:27:34 GMT -5
I can't believe they always wrote their own plays. Like school productions weren't a big enough headache for the teachers without having to come up with the ideas too.
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Post by supprazz on Sept 13, 2008 10:57:08 GMT -5
The excerpts of the script were way too basic, but the song/poem karen wrote was really cute. Sometimes I'll still randomly sing "what are you you tall green stick? I am celery ew ew yick!"
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Post by annieb on Dec 10, 2008 22:10:00 GMT -5
I liked this book and how they were getting ready for Thanksgiving and the play. I also like the part where Karen teased Pamela about getting sick at Disney World and everyone, including Leslie and Jannie laughed at her.
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