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Post by wiggir13 on Sept 4, 2011 17:38:59 GMT -5
I loved this one! I like that for once the girls did something really bad and they didn't get caught. I enjoyed reading about the NY trip. I did feel bad for Sunny and realize she must have been going through some tough times and it was pretty realistic that MA was jealous of her and Dawn's friendship. It was interesting at least for me that MA realizes Dawn has an everyday BFF while she was just sort of a BFF long lost. I wish it had made MA appreciate Kristy a little more.
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Post by sparklymouse on Dec 27, 2011 16:01:50 GMT -5
I've done a lot of google looking at barn houses because of BSC. They look stunning, but I don't think I would ever want to live in one. The whole floor being open like Mary Anne said is really unappealing to me. The huge double doors opening to the kitchen kinda grossed me out too. Who wants nature's little creatures flying in and out at their own will? I know they pretty much couldn't not give Dawn and Jeff rooms, but that just seemed like wasted space. Jeff especially should have gotten, like, the family computer room with a sofa bed in it. I loved the NYC trip too! I would have loved to sneak away anywhere at that age and not get caught. I'm glad Mary Anne didn't break down from guilty conscience or anything, and I'm really glad they didn't have Sunny run off/get lost in her fight with Dawn. Sunny obviously never watched the BSC movie or she would know she couldn't get into a NYC club anyway.  |
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Post by greer on Dec 27, 2011 17:52:18 GMT -5
I like barn houses! I remember Randy Zak lived in one in Girl Talk, and there are a few in the area where my mom lives. I'd love to live in one; it's be like a loft apartment, but in the country.  |
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Post by wiggir13 on Dec 27, 2011 22:10:25 GMT -5
For some reason, I think of the amish when I think of barn houses. There's no real reason at all but I can't get past seeing MA and Dawn in amish clothes feeding the farm animals!
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Post by virgoscorpio on Dec 28, 2011 0:52:27 GMT -5
I've done a lot of google looking at barn houses because of BSC. Me too! In fact, I have had this weird slight obsession of looking at BSC-related towns or houses. This is slightly embarrassing but I even Google Map Princeton, NJ and look around the town as if it was Stoneybrook, or imagining it as so. I'd love to see any houses that make you think of the BSC. Also, greer, if you see this, I want to start up another thread about Princeton, since I know you've visited. |
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Post by greer on Dec 28, 2011 15:13:59 GMT -5
My best friend lives in Princeton. I mentioned it to her when I visited, but she has only read like, one BSC book in her life.
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Post by sparklymouse on Dec 28, 2011 20:51:37 GMT -5
That's not exactly what I meant, Virgo. I don't go searching for BSC type buildings. Barn houses are just something that I haven't seen in person, so when the books started mentioning them I looked them up. They are beautiful and interesting but I don't think they look very family friendly.
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Post by greer on Dec 29, 2011 0:00:28 GMT -5
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Post by virgoscorpio on Dec 29, 2011 0:36:09 GMT -5
That's not exactly what I meant, Virgo. I don't go searching for BSC type buildings. Barn houses are just something that I haven't seen in person, so when the books started mentioning them I looked them up. They are beautiful and interesting but I don't think they look very family friendly. I guess I'm the only crazy one, sparklymouse! Waaaa! I thought you could be crazy with me! No-fair! |
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Post by mistrali on Nov 3, 2013 5:08:46 GMT -5
I loved Sunny in this (big surprise, I know). I thought it was quite well written, maybe even up to the standard of the earlier books. And it was just fun and not very unrealistic at all. In fact, I have to admit I had tears in my eyes during the scene where MA comforts Sunny. Miles did a great job writing her.
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Post by celaeno on Dec 10, 2014 18:28:11 GMT -5
I feel like Sunny in this book didn't really make sense with the Sunny from CD. In CD, Sunny, got really sulky and depressed (as opposed to her earlier excited and fun-loving personality), but in this book it was like she was all coked up.
That aside, I did enjoy this book. Since so many of the BSC books feature one of the girls fighting with her supposed "best friend", I really appreciated that Dawn and Mary Anne just got along in this book, with no drama between them at all. I really liked reading about them together.
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Post by merrymelody on Jun 9, 2020 15:21:03 GMT -5
I like this one, although I think its hysterical how MA's view of Dawn is of this saintly person who hasn't had chance to grieve Mrs W. because she's been so devoted to Sunny's feelings; when in California Diaries, she's making fun of how Sunny's dad is 'so concerned about your mom' that he 'doesn't care about you' literally the same week Mrs. W comes home to die. If Mary Anne saw Dawn in California, I think her opinion of her would change for the worse pretty swiftly.
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Post by andrew on Oct 31, 2020 21:06:36 GMT -5
Unfortunately, Mary Anne seemed pretty out of character in this book, pretty jealous and petty without, as in books 3 (kind of) and 8, having good reasons to be. And her bonding with Sunny at the end was underwhelming, stiffly talking at her rather than really talking with her.
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