lyricalangel
Sitting For The Newtons
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Post by lyricalangel on Mar 26, 2007 2:43:31 GMT -5
Sorry I just got scared for a minute as all these years I've thought that the 'J' was pronounced and it suddenly occurred to me that maybe it's not Thank God it is That has happened to me before, for a year when I first started reading the BSC, I though MA's surname was pronounced 'SPYER." I was stunned when I realised it wasn't! I'm glad I wasn't the only one!
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Apr 3, 2007 10:43:00 GMT -5
I was a BSC reader for probably a decade before I realised that Spier rhymed with cheer. They actually used that in one of the later books, and it was so HARD for me to say it right in my head after that.
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ktag
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Post by ktag on Apr 3, 2007 20:32:30 GMT -5
^I still refuse to say it right. Any other name, I'm willing to relearn, but that one I just can't do.
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Post by dawnomite on Apr 4, 2007 1:15:32 GMT -5
I can never ever see any movie with Scarlett Johansson and not automatically think of Charlotte. I wonder if it's her real name (Scarlett I mean), and if she thought it was really awesome when she was little (she's only a year younger than me, I'm sure she probably read the BSC...)
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lyricalangel
Sitting For The Newtons
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Post by lyricalangel on Apr 7, 2007 1:42:09 GMT -5
If it were me I would have thought it was the coolest thing ever.
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wanderingfrog
Sitting For The Arnolds
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Post by wanderingfrog on Apr 7, 2007 14:22:50 GMT -5
I can never ever see any movie with Scarlett Johansson and not automatically think of Charlotte. Me, too. I felt kind of insane for thinking that until I started posting at the BSC LJ and here.
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Post by aln1982 on Apr 22, 2007 9:52:34 GMT -5
In Dawn and the Disappearing Dogs, Charlotte becomes very paranoid about Carrot getting stolen. I know that the books probably do it to show what a "sensitive" child she is, but does it ever seem like she often gets paranoid tendencies and freaks out over almost everything? For example, in Stacey's Emergency she becomes a hypochondriac and in another book she develops a real issue with her parents leaving her or being left alone. I know she's done other things too. Maybe it's just me because Charlotte kind of bugs me (even though I have a lot in common with her on the surface and would like to like her).
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Post by sotypical42483 on Apr 22, 2007 11:50:01 GMT -5
^I've thought the same thing! There's also Stacey and the Mystery Money where Charlotte is freaking out because she thinks Stace is gonna go to jail, lol. I just think Char is very co-dependent, I think it's probably leftover from when she was really shy and would cling to whoever she felt comfortable around because she felt UNcomfortable around most people. It doesn't really bother me. I think she's cute, just kinda dull.
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Post by booboobrewer on Apr 22, 2007 12:27:40 GMT -5
Yeah, Charlotte does have a habit of over-thinking a lot of things. I always attributed it to the fact that she has no siblings and her parents are working constantly. She's living in her head a lot when she's at home and doesn't have anyone to discuss her fears with, so when her babysitters come over, she wants to confide in them.
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Post by aln1982 on Apr 22, 2007 14:55:24 GMT -5
Maybe this does explain things, booboo, though I would attribute it much more to her parents always working (by the way, who watches her after school?) instead of being an only child. I'm an only child and have never been like this. I just thought, though, that I do have some paranoid tendencies that comes from what my dad calls his "safety consciousness" He's an engineer so his job requires this - isn't Char's dad an engineer, too? Maybe that contributes. After living with an engineer for 24 years, I know first-hand how it is to have to make sure everything is checked, rechecked, safe, all of the possible problems predicted before starting, etc. Never made this connection - hopefully I'm not as paranoid as Char, though. Speaking of Charlotte, I was thinking about her after my original post and started seeing lots of similarities between here and MA. They are both only children, shy and quiet but good friends, love animals, care about people, and tend to overreact. Maybe this is why Char needed someone like Stacey - as opposed to someone just like her like MA - to pull her out of her shell.
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Post by booboobrewer on Apr 22, 2007 19:31:43 GMT -5
Yes, her father was an engineer. Those are good points, aln. I hadn't made the connection that her tendencies might be a result of the meticulousness involved in her parents' jobs.
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Post by aln1982 on May 27, 2007 19:39:36 GMT -5
The first time I read Cat Burglar, Charlotte¡¦s spying really bothered me but today I had different thoughts because I remembered that I used to be really big into spying when I was her age. I did it differently (just followed the older kids at the horse shows and tried to figure out who their boyfriends/girlfriends were ¡V I was obsessed with scandal as a child ƒº - I was very strange) I did think it was mean, though, what she wrote about Becca and Vanessa. I never would have done that. But the spying, itself¡Kthat was definitely me. My little cousins went through a phase, too, where they wanted to play ¡§spy¡¨ when they ere about that age so I think it¡¦s a totally normal thing. Even now, I like to ¡§people watch¡¨ (wasn¡¦t that what it was called in another thread? ;D) Uh oh, another similarity between me and Charlotte (who I don't really like. Maybe I'd better start liking her more
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Lauren
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Post by Lauren on Jun 14, 2007 14:20:05 GMT -5
Charlotte was always my favorite client because she seemed so easy to sit for. She was the kind of kid my parents would have liked me to be- I was more of a combination of Karen and Claire personality-wise.
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blossom114
Sitting For The Papadakis's
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Post by blossom114 on Jun 14, 2007 14:28:11 GMT -5
^ me too Lol. But I didn't have a lot of sitters when I was in elementary school. I became sort of a latchkey kid the older I got...both my parents worked, but one of them was usually home when I got there. I had some steady baby-sitters when I was younger...actually every now and then I wonder what happened to them, because they were great!! Lol but yeah,, I was probably rambunctious, and all that...was def more of a karen or claire or one of them.
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Post by aln1982 on Jun 14, 2007 17:27:42 GMT -5
^ I was actually a lot like Charlotte but not as clingy or insecure or shy. Had a lot in common with her, too. Maybe that's why I would much rather read about Claire and Karen now ;D
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