Rie
Sitting For The Newtons
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Post by Rie on Mar 13, 2008 21:47:07 GMT -5
^Oh,I absolutely loved that part too! The part about Mallory talking in her dreams,I mean.
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starlett2010
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It's been YEARS but I'm back!!!! :)
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Post by starlett2010 on Apr 4, 2008 0:58:02 GMT -5
it's my name as well My name is Vanessa too! I loved Vanessa in Poor Mallory when she does hair on the playground. I thought it was really sweet! ;D
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Post by greer on Apr 15, 2008 19:05:45 GMT -5
^cool! ;D
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fluffycakes
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Post by fluffycakes on Apr 15, 2008 22:34:50 GMT -5
I like Vanessa too. Her constant rhyming would drive me crazy in real life, but I find it cute in the books. She seems like a sweet, good-natured kid. I find the fact that she's really slow getting ready to leave the house amusing, since I can be like that too. I like the idea of her and Byron bonding and being close, which I think has been mentioned in another thread or two around here. They seem to be somewhat similar - on the quiet side, kind of sensative - and I can see them becoming good friends later on in life. I like the name Vanessa as well.
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Rie
Sitting For The Newtons
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Post by Rie on Apr 21, 2008 0:45:28 GMT -5
^I agree.
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nothingtolose18
Sitting For The Johanssens
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Post by nothingtolose18 on Apr 21, 2008 14:47:18 GMT -5
I liked Vanessa. She seemed really sweet, and very mature for her age. She was more like a friend to Mal then a little sister, I think. I just liked reading about the Pikes in general they seemed like good kids, overall.
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inconstant heart
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Post by inconstant heart on Apr 25, 2008 3:54:37 GMT -5
I liked reading about the Pikes, too. They were so much fun, and their occasional brattiness and silliness appealed much more to me than the more 'perfect' charges the club sat for. I really liked Vanessa's poems in 'Mary Anne and Too Many Boys' as well. Some of her poems make me cringe (In 'Boy-Crazy Stacey': Joking and laughing in the sun, now that's what I call lots of fun. Something like that.), but most of the time they're fun to read. Out of all the Pikes, I'd like to know what happened to Vanessa most. Unlike the others (aside from Mal), she had an actual ambition. Do you think she would really have gone on to write poetry professionally? (By the way, I read a fanfic where Vanessa ended up going to Mal's boarding school as well, which I think makes a lot of sense. Also, Byron turned out to be a really good chef. )
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supprazz
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Post by supprazz on Sept 13, 2008 13:58:54 GMT -5
she is not a poet, she just likes rhyming words for the sake of it and will get a rude awakening someday
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Post by anzuhana on Jun 18, 2010 13:13:41 GMT -5
I like Vanessa. I like that she makes poems. I thought that she was mature about the situation involving Chris in Mary Anne And Too Many Boys.
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Post by Sideshowjazz1 on Jun 10, 2014 3:10:44 GMT -5
I always liked Vanessa. Actually, she used to speak in rhyme all the time in the earlier books (there you go, I rhymed) but honestly, the writers just dropped that later on without any warning. That annoyed me, but I guess it was hard to come up with rhymes for everything she said. But really, Vanessa seemed like a pretty easy charge, if a little annoying. I mean, she's pretty much the quietest Pike and she likes to read and write. She's kind of like me when I was her age. I think my favourite Vanessa plot was the one in "Mary Anne and Too Many Boys" when she got a crush on that guy who had a crush on Mallory and thought she was the one writing the poems. I especially like that poem she gave Mary Anne at the end.
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Natasha
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Post by Natasha on Sept 22, 2014 20:48:44 GMT -5
I really like Vanessa and think she might be one of my favorite sitting charges and one of the most developed. I see a lot of different sides to Vanessa, especially in the later books when she’s struggling with Mal moving. I think she’s definitely at an awkward age between being a little kid and starting to grow up. Her poetry always makes me laugh, too, and I think she’s for sure one of the funniest (at least for me) charges. ;D Vanessa and Charlotte are my two favourites I loved Vanessa in Mary-Anne and Two Many Boys.
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Post by CharlotteTJohanssen on Sept 22, 2014 23:07:47 GMT -5
Vanessa is one of my favorites next to Byron. Both seem they they are easy to sit for alone. Her rhyming would get annoying after awhile though.
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Post by zoar3 on Sept 22, 2014 23:23:53 GMT -5
As I have gotten older and a bigger BSC fan, too, , I have come to like Vanessa a whole lot more. I loved when she and Mallory talked in Mystery Diary and also before Mal leaves for Riverbend. I wish we had gotten to read more about the two of eldest Pike girls, just spending time together. Vanessa's poems probably could get annoying after a while if she truly did speak only in rhymes for long periods at a time as I think several books hinted at. But in smaller doses they are so funny and some of them such as the one she wrote to Chris in Sea City are so touching, too.
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Post by booboobrewer on Sept 23, 2014 9:15:29 GMT -5
Vanessa is one of my favorites next to Byron. Both seem they they are easy to sit for alone. Her rhyming would get annoying after awhile though. Yes I like these both two, no surprise as they are the quieter Pikes I can identify with Vanessa getting ready slowly--I don't like to be rushed--and being in her own head a lot.
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Post by CharlotteTJohanssen on Sept 24, 2014 22:13:42 GMT -5
Vanessa is one of my favorites next to Byron. Both seem they they are easy to sit for alone. Her rhyming would get annoying after awhile though. Yes I like these both two, no surprise as they are the quieter Pikes I can identify with Vanessa getting ready slowly--I don't like to be rushed--and being in her own head a lot. I can relate to being in your own head a lot too.
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