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Post by aln1982 on Jul 13, 2007 16:03:22 GMT -5
^ Never thought of that but you're right. Maybe it is the Lucille Ball obsession. Interesting..... Is I Love Lucy mentioned at least a dozen times in the bio? I definitely will have to read.
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Post by aln1982 on Jul 28, 2007 23:40:53 GMT -5
Fire Island seems to be another interest/obsession of AMM's. It's the setting for Stacey's Lie and also 11 Kids One Summer and I know she mentions it a few times in her "notes" at the end of the books. Where exactly is it, anyway? By NYC somewhere?
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Post by Lauren on Jul 28, 2007 23:43:59 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure it's somewhere in New York state but not sure of the exact location.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2007 0:18:42 GMT -5
Is it kind of off of Long Island? I just remember it was across from a town called "Pachogue."
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Post by ringdings on Jul 29, 2007 12:17:09 GMT -5
Yes, it's off the southern shore of central Long Island. If you look at a map, and see a little thin strip of land, that would be it. I love it there--in fact, my husband and I are going there in a couple of weeks for our anniversary. It's as she describes--no cars, very few stores around, and people actually use little red wagons to cart their stuff from the ferry to their homes... Lots of deer. It's a perfect place to just relax. BTW, Patchogue is a real town, where one can get the ferry.
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Post by aln1982 on Jul 29, 2007 16:44:40 GMT -5
^ That's so cool you've really been there. ;D Do you think of the BSC books when you visit? I know I would.
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Post by ringdings on Jul 29, 2007 20:18:37 GMT -5
^Yeah. I really liked Stacey's Lie because of my fondness for Fire Island. I'll have to read it again before we go.
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Post by booboobrewer on Jul 29, 2007 21:51:22 GMT -5
Don't know if this has been mentioned before, but I think Ann must really like Alice in Wonderland...I've noticed many references. For example:
- their play in First Thanksgiving is called "Alice and the Pilgrims", modeled after Alice in Wonderland - In Surfer Ghost the kids' program Dawn's involved with puts on a play called "Alice at the Beach" (with a surfing Cheshire cat) - In Winter Vacation, one of the snow sculptures is a Cheshire cat (and I think it was also the winner) - When Dawn finds the secret passage for the first time, she says falling through it was like "falling through the rabbit hole" - the book Abby in Wonderland
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Post by Lauren on Jul 29, 2007 23:24:36 GMT -5
I remember them trying to find the Alice statue in Stacey's Mistake.
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Post by aln1982 on Jul 29, 2007 23:33:38 GMT -5
^ Never noticed the Alice thing but you're definitely right. Seems that AMM uses a lot of common themes in the books.
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Post by lovelylemontree on Sept 10, 2007 1:42:44 GMT -5
This afternoon, I was playing a tv trivia game with my friends and there was an I Love Lucy question. It was about the vitameatavegimin episode and the only reason I knew the answer was because of the BSC. So, thanks, Ann, for that.
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Post by wenonah4th on Sept 12, 2007 13:35:58 GMT -5
I remember them trying to find the Alice statue in Stacey's Mistake. But that makes sense, if they're walking around Central Park. It's there...as is the Robert Burns one.
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Post by alula on Sept 23, 2007 17:22:37 GMT -5
I don't know if this is a real "obsession," but in the last batch of books I've been reading (I finally have all my books on one place! go me!), Claudia has been wearing a LOT of red and purple ensembles--particularly, bright red and purple. I specifically remember a purple cropped top over a red and white striped muscle T-shirt in one outfit, and purple leggings with bright red slouch socks in another. Is this a combination that sounds hot to anyone but Ann? I haven't gotten to Stacey and the Haunted Masquerade yet (it's in my soon-to-be-reread stack), but in that one, doesn't everyone go gaga over her awesome red and purple color scheme? It just seems to me like a combination with a fairly limited amount of good combinations and an awful lot of bad ones, and I don't get why Ann is so crazy about it. I know the outfits are generally kooky (and I was a tot in the 80s, so I wore some awful stuff as a six-year-old--Mal would have coveted my threads; I even had a glittery denim skirt), but I find that color combo stands out as more "ouch" than, say, all the bright pink and turquoise (did it), or all of Stacey's sophisticated black, or her butter-colored sweaters in the later books (which is what I've been reading). So what is up with the red and purple?
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Post by greer on Sept 23, 2007 17:29:45 GMT -5
red and purple are definitely hit or miss together. ann has also never struck me as a very stylish woman.
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Post by icequeen on Oct 20, 2007 4:43:46 GMT -5
When you read her autobiography, you begin to notice just how much she took out of her own life and put into the BSC books (and her other books). I mean, fair enough write what you know, but with all the I Love Lucy references etc it gets a bit much.
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