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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2006 19:39:09 GMT -5
What about the rapidly aging Sabrina Bouvier? In "Little Miss Stoneybrook...and Dawn", she was a twee pageant queen. In "Mary Anne's Makeover" (I think it was this one, correct me if I'm wrong!), she was an oh-so-sophisticated middle-school student. Is time in Stoneybrook really that warped?
Oh, who am I kidding? Of course it was!
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Post by macca on Apr 10, 2006 21:36:45 GMT -5
Considering how many summers and Christmases Stoneybrook had, if they didn't all occur in one year, Sabrina Bouvier probably was about the right age by Mary Anne's Makeover It was Christmas in Book 92 and then again in book 103. Not to mention that it had there was another random Christmas in Snowbound.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2006 22:36:22 GMT -5
And, I swear, every other book it was summer vacation.
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Post by Amalia on Apr 10, 2006 22:41:04 GMT -5
And don't let us get started on the Halloweens (and others of course).
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Post by macca on Apr 11, 2006 17:58:33 GMT -5
And, I swear, every other book it was summer vacation. Oh, those summer vacations were thrown in at random, weren't they. Mary Anne and Too Many Boys came completely out of left field.
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Post by jen on Apr 12, 2006 6:38:36 GMT -5
Oh, at the start of the series, they made sense! Around the books of "Dawn on the Coast"... they were all summery ones, but it was the same summer. It's not until a few books later when summers, Christmases, Valentine's Days, Halloweens etc get thrown in willy-nilly. I always thought it'd be fun to make a list of exactly how many holidays they go through...
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Post by Amalia on Apr 23, 2006 1:09:08 GMT -5
I was not very perceptive as a kid, but I remember having a very indelible wtf moment when I read Claudia saying "First call of the school year" in Kristy & Dirty Diapers. I guess they had to do it since they were introducing Abby.
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Post by jen on Apr 23, 2006 1:17:08 GMT -5
Haha, I remember that! And then in the book where Claudia gets back to seventh grade, they're all talking about 8th grade and how cool it is and how different it is to seventh grade. That annoyed me.
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Post by macca on Apr 23, 2006 19:17:34 GMT -5
^ ugh, normally they are fairly subtle about eighth grade beginning for the fifth (or so) time. It's very vague, almost like we're not supposed to notice or something.
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Post by Amalia on Apr 23, 2006 21:05:48 GMT -5
I think they just get lazy sometimes.
I guess 8th grade is different from 7th grade since they are the top dogs now.
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Post by macca on Apr 23, 2006 22:25:43 GMT -5
^ you think the appeal would wear off after having been top dogs for more than ten yrs! ;D
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Post by jen on Apr 24, 2006 0:08:27 GMT -5
The only time I liked the big introduction to eighth grade was in Logan Likes Mary Anne... Because they really were going into eighth grade for the first time.
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Post by Amalia on Apr 24, 2006 1:59:27 GMT -5
Yeah, the way the new year was introduced eased the reader (to me) through the transition. Whie the other ones seemed to just seem thrown at you.
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Post by ktag on Apr 25, 2006 6:58:42 GMT -5
In Stacey's book, it says she lives on the Upper East Side. But in Welcome Back, Stacey, she says she has never lived on the East Side before.
She also mentions how she knew Matt Braddock would love the penguins at the zoo, but the Braddocks moved to Stoneybrook after Stacey had gone back to New York. They shouldn't have met yet. Even if she's heard of him, I doubt he'd be the first (well, second) kid on her mind.
While on the subject, I don't really get the first and last chapters of the portraits. The first is basically just a chapter two with descriptions that are mostly irrelevant to the rest of the book. But then sometimes in the autobiography they refer to stuff that assumes you read it, but you wouldn't have if you're actually just reading the bio.
Janine stayed back a year! In Claudia's kindergarten chapter, Janine was in 3rd grade. In Mary Anne's 1st grade chapter, Janine was still in the 3rd grade. ;D
And they keep coming...in MA's book, they claim 4th grade is their first time not all in the same class. But in Claudia's book, she was in a different 2nd grade class. Probably because Claudia's had a different ghostwriter.
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Post by fluffy on May 29, 2006 13:42:29 GMT -5
In The Ghost at Dawn's House, Dawn mentions that Sharon's mother, Granny is 'only in her fifties' or something to that effect. In Dawn's Portrait, ten-year-old Dawn's Granny and Pop-Pop are already celebrating their fiftieth anniversary. Tut!
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