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Post by otempora541 on Dec 24, 2008 16:59:40 GMT -5
About Mr. Winslow: I figured he'd want to move away from the place where his wife died? The guy's grief is so much bigger then his daugther- he crys on the podium, eavesdrops on Sunny's conversation, quickly gives away her clothing... The next step would have been leaving CA.
Sunny is stronger and deals with it better (I just read Sunny 3 so the plot is super fresh in my mind) or else represses it. It would have been intresting to see how would Sunny have continued grieving.
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Post by icequeen on Dec 26, 2008 1:39:28 GMT -5
^ Thats a possibility. I agree that he may want to get right away from all the memories, but I dont know if Sunny would want to be emancipated. They didnt get along for a bit there, but hard times can bring the worst out of people, so I think they were just trying to deal with the situation in their own way- and they clashed. I dont think they had a bad relationship previously. I think the death of Mrs Winslow would bring them closer together.
Add me to the list of criers. My mum gets on my nerves and sometimes I even hate her, but I couldnt imagine losing her this way.
I just read all 3 of Sunny's diaries today and I must say that I like her so much better than I did before I read them. I guess because I saw all her faults through Dawn's eyes, so I was a little biased. Then again even before California diaries I didnt care much for Sunny.
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Post by valuemeal2 on Feb 26, 2009 21:21:11 GMT -5
*raises hand* another crier for this one. I once made the mistake of reading this right after reading Claudia and the Sad Good-Bye. I don't know if I was feeling especially masochistic, or what. Geez.
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Post by anzuhana on Dec 29, 2009 18:08:59 GMT -5
What a sad book. I felt sad for Sunny because she lost her mom when she was young.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2012 2:23:15 GMT -5
I just read this book last night for the first time as I have just recently completed my collection of the California Diaries.
I pretty much cried throughout the whole book especially in the last few days of Mrs Winslow's life and I agree with other posters who said how well written it was. It seemed so realistic and I am so glad that Dawn and Sunny became friends again (although Dawn has really annoyed me in the CD series but she has finally started to see how Sunny might be feeling and begun to support her).
I can't see Sunny getting herself emancipated from her dad because although they did have a strained relationship in previous books - her mum asked Sunny and her dad to look after each other before she died and I think that they would take this to heart and try to develop a better relationship, after all they are all each other has.
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Post by psychoseal on Feb 2, 2012 11:57:08 GMT -5
I can't see Sunny getting emancipated from her dad either - when she goes to Stoneybrook in FF11 Welcome Home Mary Anne shortly after her mum dies she realises how much running away she has really been doing and that she needs her dad and that he needs her.
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Post by mallorypike on Jul 24, 2017 1:04:16 GMT -5
just finished reading this. I cried a LOT. it was so sad that Sunny's mom died especially since they were both young. I loved reading Mrs Winslows' diary entries; they were entertaining and gave me an outlook of her life. This is my definitely my favorite Sunny diary if not THE favorite diary so far (but I still have Maggie and Amalia and Ducky diary 3 left to read).
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Post by CharlotteTJohanssen on May 15, 2020 16:15:41 GMT -5
I read this out of context so i have no idea what the fight is about, but oh my gosh I cried so much during this. I love reading Mrs. Winslows diary entries and really got to know her. I feel horrible for Sunny too and seeing how she just broke down makes me feel horrible for her. It's so well written too, this is the one that Ann wrote herself right?
I need to read some of the others now.
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Post by booboobrewer on May 15, 2020 21:59:38 GMT -5
Ann wrote it. Major props to her.
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Post by CharlotteTJohanssen on May 16, 2020 2:55:51 GMT -5
^ thanks! Yay, major props I could really feel for sunny and her dad. It’s written so well:
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Post by merrymelody on Jun 14, 2020 18:47:45 GMT -5
This one is definitely Ann's best work, its heart rending.
Re Sunny's dad, I want to like him, because he's in such a painful situation; but he really does seem like a pretty mediocre parent, so when Sunny's last book in FF11 is going back to him, it is kind of like...good luck with that. I think I'd just have to pretend he learnt how to be a better father offscreen while she was in Stoneybrook.
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Post by oldmeanie on Apr 29, 2022 15:32:10 GMT -5
So this book is just as good as I remember it and it's probably the best written book in the BSC verse. I totally bawled my eyes out the first time I read it, and in re-read, I got teary eyed several times then really lost it at the last entry.
I feel like I got to know Sunny's family really well from this and I loved reading about Betsy Winslow's past. It's much more realistic than the rest of CD and I don't have any criticism of it honestly.
I really like how the 5 of them hang out. It's really sweet and was the main thing lacking in the earlier books... they weren't as tight a group as the BSC (actually much more realistic if you think about it, but I read for escapism and the thought of having SIX close friends is pretty cool). Her making up with Ducky felt very real and honest as well. I'm glad that he wasn't just jumping up and down to forgive her for what she said.
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