sarish
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Post by sarish on Dec 23, 2007 12:55:48 GMT -5
I also like Janine. She always tried very hard to be Claudia's friend and helped her study for math tests and was one of the only ones to believe Claudia did not cheat in Claudia and the Middle School Mystery (I think thats the name of it). She may have given way to much information on thunderstorms and regulating body temperature but it was what she was interested it.
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Post by aln1982 on Dec 23, 2007 16:50:53 GMT -5
^ Agree. I really liked how she stood up for Claudia in Middle School Mystery and ended up being the one to help her out. I wonder if Claudia really appreciated it....
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lyricalangel
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Post by lyricalangel on Dec 24, 2007 0:01:45 GMT -5
^ I agree. Janine was a very good sister.
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Post by booboobrewer on Dec 27, 2007 18:15:24 GMT -5
She may have given way to much information on thunderstorms and regulating body temperature Hehe. In Karen's Sleepover, Kristy explains to Karen and her friends about thunderstorms and cold fronts and warm fronts. It always reminds me of Janine.
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Post by aln1982 on Dec 27, 2007 20:45:48 GMT -5
^ Me too. ;D I wonder what kind of explanation Janine would have given. Also, Karen and friends react to Kristy the same way that Claudia and friends do to Janine.
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Post by booboobrewer on Dec 28, 2007 1:43:08 GMT -5
Yeah, they totally do
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2008 13:41:58 GMT -5
I'm glad I'm not the only one who likes Janine. Claudia never seemed to fully apprectiate what a great big sister she was at least trying to be to her. Constant grammar correcting probably and giving Claudia information that she wasn't really interested in probably was annoying, but otherwise, she was okay.
I always felt a bit sorry for Janine because even though she had her strenghts and so on, I always thought that she was jealous of Claudia because Claud was beautiful, creative, liked by everyone, ect...Then again, Janine is very smart, so I think she didn't care so much about so superficial things as being good-looking or popular. But I think she would have liked more friends - even if some people prefer to spend time alone, but it seemed like she had not much of social life except for Jerry - no close friends, ect...Poor Janine.
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Post by aln1982 on Jan 9, 2008 17:13:12 GMT -5
I never got that Janine was jealous of Claudia but I might be missing something or just different perceptions. That's an interesting theory, though. I always got the impression that she just wanted to be close with Claudia and am not sure how much she cared about a bigger social life. I think she did have friends but just not many close ones and some people are okay with that. In fact, some people do better on their own (I'm a lot like that). I see that Claudia was definitely jealous of Janine, though.
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Post by booboobrewer on Jan 9, 2008 19:40:12 GMT -5
I can see how they both might have been jealous of each other - Claudia wished she had her smarts, Janine wished she had her popularity - I think that's sort of what they say to each other at the end of Mean Janine.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2008 12:12:35 GMT -5
^ Yes - from that book my thoughts about Janine being jealous of Claudia come from.
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Post by wenonah4th on Jan 10, 2008 13:47:11 GMT -5
We never seem to hear all that much about Janine's friends, or that she has friends, apart from Jerry and someone mentioned in passing in #7.
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Post by fairy3lf2 on Jan 10, 2008 19:50:39 GMT -5
Is the "fourteen year old math nerd" from Kristy's Great Idea ever mentioned again?
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Post by aln1982 on Jan 10, 2008 20:32:57 GMT -5
^ Not that I remember. I haven't read Mean Janine for a while. I'll have to put it on my list as now I'm curious about Janine's feelings towards Claudia. I don't think specific friends were ever mentioned but alluded to. I wish we would have gotten to see more of Janine, in general. She's one of my favorite characters in the books. ;D
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mckay
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Post by mckay on Jan 11, 2008 3:31:50 GMT -5
We never seem to hear all that much about Janine's friends, or that she has friends, apart from Jerry and someone mentioned in passing in #7. Wasn't Rosa, Claudia's tutor, supposedly Janine's friend? Or were they just classmates?
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Post by aln1982 on Jan 11, 2008 11:27:08 GMT -5
^ Rosa was one of the friends I was thinking of. Wish she would have been mentioned again since I really liked her. ;D
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