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Post by sparklymouse on Dec 26, 2021 6:33:33 GMT -5
Natalie was the Mallory of the Little Sister books.
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Post by livvy on Jan 1, 2023 17:49:34 GMT -5
Karen threw a tantrum because Nancy asked Hannie to go with her to see Annie. Karen did tell them she couldn't go. It wasn't Nancy's fault Karen got her days mixed up. Karen can get nasty when she doesn't get her way. Like she was in this book.
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Post by livvy on Jan 1, 2023 17:51:00 GMT -5
Karen's parents were pretty cheap a lot of times when she was trying to earn money for special things. Instead of saying "you do some extra chores and I'll help you pay for the ____" they just paid her a nickel or a dime at a time while she also had to annoy everyone else in the house and/or do inordinate amounts of work for nickels and dimes. Also they allowed her to demand money for things like reading a story to Emily. My parents would have laughed me out of the room if I'd demanded a quarter for reading to my much younger brother. Overall I liked this book pretty well. The fight was fairly petty, but most of their fights were. I liked how Nancy solved the problem of which friend to take to the play, and I liked them getting the gift for the child they chose off the giving tree, and I liked the chapter where they picked out the perfect tree for the Druckers with the money they'd collected from the other neighbors. It's probably my favorite regular-series Christmas themed Little Sister book. To be fair Karen's little house family isn't as well off as Karen's big house family.
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Post by livvy on Jan 1, 2023 18:05:45 GMT -5
I will admit I laughed when Pamela snottily told Karen that some friendships were better than others. Karen definitely overreacted about the play but I remember petty fights with friends like that in elementary school. Felt bad for Natalie. Karen was using her as a replacement to eat lunch with then she complained about it being less fun than Nancy and Hannie. And course ditched her as soon as the fight ended. Natalie deserved a friend too but she was always an afterthought or replacement in many of the books. Why couldn't the ghostwriters give her a break? Poor old Natalie. She was like a spare part.
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