98: Karen's Fishing Trip

[Kylie90210]

Please discuss this book here.

[annieb]

I remember reading Karen's fishing trip. I loved the trips Karen would take with father.

[tiff85]

Karen always went on some of the best vacations. I wish I went on half of the vacations she went on.

[scrounge]

I guess this one's not too popular for discussion, or maybe not too many people have read it. I was reading it yesterday and there's a bit where Karen goes through the cabin yelling and banging on a pot lid with a wooden spoon early in the morning and waking everyone up. She didn't even get in trouble for it. It really stood out to me as an example of Karen acting like a complete brat and everyone thinking it's somehow cute.

I liked that Keegan from Karen's Ski Trip showed up again. I always like when minor characters come back instead of a different one-book character being invented.

[virgoscorpio]

^ I never thought of that, scrounge, but you're right. I am surprised that the worms got as far as they did! I would have expected them to all be in the bathroom sink cupboard -- especially if it's kept closed.

I liked how, originally, it was an all-girls-trip-plus-Watson. I like that Kristy and Mary Anne are in the book a lot.

[anzuhana]

I wonder what lives in the lake since Watson also saw something unexplained in the lake. I find it hard to believe that when Karen, Hannie and Nancy were fishing that the fish liked the bait they used such as acorns, cheese, apples and popcorn. I have to reread Karen's Ski Trip since Keegan is in that book and it's been a while since I read that book.

[sillybillygoogoo]

I've got to read this book again. I remember really liking it.

[zoar3]

Finally, a BSC-related book about Father's Day. I didn't think there was such a thing. The only thing I didn't care for about this story besides all the fishing (I loved Karen's fish, though) was that no one thought to invite Richard for Father's Day. That made me sad. I was proud of Karen though for asking her parents to invite the Dawes and Papadakises and loved when Nannie, David Michael, Sam, and Charlie, showed up, too. This book was a welcome change (I know I am in the very minority on this) for me in terms of getting to read a bit of the families on vacation with just each other. Kristy and MA's "A-Lure-Ing," Earring business was funny--Claud would have been proud.

[virgoscorpio]

That would have been nice to see Richard on the trip. I can see Richard and Watson probably getting along as friends.

[booboobrewer]

No one thought Karen banging on the pot was cute; they were grumpy about it. I'd probably be glad to be woken up anyway, wouldn't want to discover any worms on my pillow

Funny how now Karen thinks it's Hannie and Nancy who are selfish for not wanting to hang out with other friends over the summer.

I liked this book a lot. I like fishing. The meal they had with the corn on the cob, green beans, baked potatoes, cornbread and cobbler sounded super good.

Kristy and Mary Anne making and selling jewelry does not sound like them at ALL and I thought that was a lame side plot. I can't see the women in town wearing fishing lures on their ears out to the lodge. Buying them from teenaged girls, sure, but wearing them?

[zoar3]

Just finished reading this story for Father's Day. Still love Karen's "fish" and even though ITA with others of you that the a-lure-ing earrings may have come out of nowhere, it was a funny and clever Kristy and MA idea. I would have very much enjoyed a Stoneybrook chapter about Nannie, Sam, and Charlie, also David Michael at Adventure Land with the Hsus--that was sure kind of them to take him. I wonder if that was supposed to be Disneyland or maybe a combo of DL and Magic Mountain. ETA: I noticed again the car arrangements going back home to Stoneybrook were: Nannie, Elizabeth, Emily, Kristy and MA (that makes sense), Nancy's parents with Danny, Hannie's parents with Sari, Charlie, Sam, DM, and Linny, and Watson with the three M's. Nice of all the adults to make the ride back easier and probably more fun for the kids that way. Lol, I realize doing so probably made it easier on the grown ups, too.

Anyway, I hope everyone had a good Sunday and were able to share it with your dad or grandpa or someone else special to you.

[Honeybee]

I'thought, I wouldn't enjoy reading this book. But, I enjoy it. The funniest part was Karen catching a baseball glove on Father's Day. It had me laughing.

I'm scared of fish. (Expect sharks. They don't bother me.) It's the other fish. Like bass, trout, tropical fish & etc.... Can be real, fake, live, dead, or something made out of fish. If, I see them in a fish tank. I quickly go by it. So far, I haven't had a fish land on my lap. I'll probably froze, if a fish land on my lap. In movies or TV shows when show fish, on the screen. I'll curl my toes until the fish scene is finished.


I want go to Shadow Lake. That place sounds like fun.

[wanderingfrog]

I just read this book for the first time and really liked it, although it doesn't actually have a plot. I just enjoyed reading about Karen's vacation because it all sounded like so much fun, and Karen catching a baseball glove while fishing was very funny. It would get boring if all the books didn't have real storylines and were just about Fun Things Karen Did, but it's nice to have a book like this once in a while.

[sparklymouse]

I was thinking that there was an excessive amount of fishing in this book. I didn’t remember that it was actually called Karen’s Fishing Trip. I am not a fisherwoman. I don’t like to eat it, I don’t like to be out there smelling the fishy water, I always had to have my dad cast the line for me, just not my thing.

I have to say that the very first sentence of the book made me pause. Karen was eating a bagel with pineapple cream cheese. I had to make sure that was a real thing. (It is.) Then in the next chapter the whole Big House family was just casually eating lamb chops for dinner. That’s a fancy special occasion dinner to me. (I’ve never had them.) Rich family of ten just casually eating on a random night. 🙁

Charlie got a job delivering for an auto parts store. I’m wondering how many deliveries he made in a day and why the mechanics in town weren’t better stocked on their own. Sam got a second job (he was still delivering newspapers) washing dishes at the Five Happiness restaurant. Was it fancy? Was that alluding to a five course meal?

This cabin was only two hours away! They should have utilized it so much more. I still don’t understand the logistics of having two huge rooms that could store 24 people and then have two tiny rooms that “could barely fit a bed and a dresser.” The place had enough beds for 28 people but only had “3 tiny bathrooms.” For real, where was the master bed/bath in this place?!

Kristy was all “Everyone wants our earrings. We’ve sold 4 pairs. We might have to go to the next town over and buy all of their fishing lures, too.” Claudia wasn’t there, but a funnier storyline would have been her designing super successful fishing lures.

I liked the very end when Karen got her pictures back. It brought back a lot of memories of excitedly going through your picture envelope and not knowing exactly what you were going to see. There were the blurry ones and the ones with eyes closed and people looking like ants because you didn’t use the zoom. Then if you didn’t automatically order doubles you had to bring the negatives in to get extras made. Today’s youth doesn’t understand how easy it is to document things now.