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Post by 12 clubs on Apr 18, 2008 21:45:20 GMT -5
Which BSC books do you relate to the most? Why?
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Post by fairy3lf2 on Apr 18, 2008 22:29:00 GMT -5
Mallory Hates Boys and Gym comes to mind.
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Post by msstock87 on Apr 19, 2008 14:09:38 GMT -5
I could relate to "Mallory hates boys and gym" as well. Their are other moments in certain books I can relate to as well.
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Post by sparklymouse on Apr 19, 2008 19:02:53 GMT -5
The beginning of Hello Mallory when Mal talks about wanting a best friend. I was the opposite of Stacey and Dawn in that I lived in the same place my whole life and my best friends kept moving away. The transitions between best friends were lonely.
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Post by shannon86 on Apr 20, 2008 19:02:43 GMT -5
I can relate to "Claudia & The Sad Goodbye" because my grandparents passed away not long ago.
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Post by lionessblack on Apr 20, 2008 19:18:54 GMT -5
I have purposely avoided rereading Kristy and the Snobs for the last year since we put our 15 year old dog down.
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Apr 20, 2008 19:56:51 GMT -5
Mallory Hates Boys and Gym is definitely one I can relate to because I had a problem with boys and gym right around the time I discovered the book and it made me feel better knowing that I wasn't the only one who had problems with my gym teacher or the games we played or the fact that the boys were macho jerks ;D. It just helped me a lot. Most recently, Claudia and the Sad Goodbye is a book I can relate to because I lost my grandma during my freshman year and we were as close as Claudia was to Mimi. The emotions that Claudia was feeling after Mimi's death and what she was thinking was a mirror image of what I was thinking and even though this book is too sad for me to read now because it hits too close to home, I can honestly say that it did comfort me .
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Post by sarish on Apr 20, 2008 20:15:35 GMT -5
sweetvalleygirl, Claudia and the Sad Goodbye has been a great comfort for me for the two grandma's that I have lost in the last couple of years (since I have picked up the BSC books again). I was extremely close to the first one that died and I understand that it really does hit close to home.
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Post by booboobrewer on Apr 20, 2008 20:42:36 GMT -5
There are so many I can relate to. One that just came to mind is Mary Anne Misses Logan when Mary Anne's stressing herself out about working in groups of people she might not know well and having to do a presentation in front of the whole eighth grade. I definitely didn't like working in groups for school projects and would rather have worked alone. And I still dislike public speaking.
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Post by sparklymouse on Apr 20, 2008 21:02:02 GMT -5
Oh my God, I hated oral presentations in school. I had to do one in practically every class at some point. Even geometry! We had to do reports on famous mathematicians. Was that really necessary, stupid teacher? I think not. I also disliked working in groups, even if it was with my friends. I didn't like relying on other people or having my grade affected by someone else's work. Thanks for mentioning this, booboobrewer! Now I'm having angry school flashbacks.
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Post by booboobrewer on Apr 20, 2008 21:27:57 GMT -5
haha sorry I totally get flashbacks about my experiences with oral presentations. I remember I had this English teacher in seventh grade who was really big on them and made us do so many. And there was one time in sixth when I had to stand in front of my social studies class and talk at length about my family tree. I think I literally shook.
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Post by sarish on Apr 20, 2008 21:36:24 GMT -5
I also hate talking in front of people. I remember in 4th grade a girl who had to say a few words before we all sang, "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" (this would have made Kristy proud) and she was absent. I was the only one who knew her words, even though I wasn't an understudy or anything, and so I had to say it in front of a huge crowd. I froze and someone had to come and touch my shoulder before I began. I still hate speaking in public today and I shake when I have to. Unfortunately this means I hide behind the podium when I talk in front of my speech class (it is required).
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Post by baseballchica03 on Apr 20, 2008 22:12:25 GMT -5
Mallory Hates Boys and Gym (I only wish I could have boycotted gym!), Mallory on Strike (although I only have one brother, sometimes when I was younger it seemed like an insane amount of responsibility being the oldest by seven years), Dawn Saves the Planet (unfortunately, I played the part of the obnoxious, tree-hugging Dawn), Jessi and the Awful Secret (I had a friend with anorexia when I was in the eighth grade, and she pretty much stopped talking to me when I told our basketball coach)
There are probably more. Stacey's Big Crush is almost painful to read because even though I was never that insane, delusional, and far gone over a teacher, I definitely recognize some of my middle school behaviors towards boys in that, awkward notes and all. I don't remember reading it back in the day, though.
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Apr 21, 2008 12:37:04 GMT -5
Oh my God, I hated oral presentations in school. I had to do one in practically every class at some point. Even geometry! We had to do reports on famous mathematicians. Was that really necessary, stupid teacher? I think not. I also disliked working in groups, even if it was with my friends. I didn't like relying on other people or having my grade affected by someone else's work. Thanks for mentioning this, booboobrewer! Now I'm having angry school flashbacks. I'm the same way, I hate group work, even if I'm with my friends. I'd much rather work by myself and get a better grade .
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Post by nothingtolose18 on Apr 21, 2008 14:08:09 GMT -5
^ Same here! At least when I'm working on an assignment by myself, I know that all parts of the project will be how I want it to be. I'm a bit of a perfectionist and so I worried that the parts the other members completed wouldn't be how I wanted it. Not to sound like a control-freak or anything, lol! Just reread Graduation Day today and I realized how much I related with Kristy in this book, too. She just wants time to go backwards, instead of progressing. I felt the same way when I graduated eighth grade, because we also went to a different school (I had been at the same school from preschool to grade eight! ) and this school was taking in a whole bunch of different communities. My class had 20-something people in it, (and there were like, five classes of grade 9's) while I was used to having a class of 13 (and only the one class of us, too!) so it was pretty rough to adjust to at first. But I made so many good friends (actually, most of my best friends, I met from that school) and changed so much for the better (came out of my shell a little bit) that afterwards I was soo happy for that change! I felt the same way graduating high school a little, as well. I was worried that I would lose touch with my friends and never see them anymore. Now, it's true, I don't see most of them as often as I'd like (except the two I live with, of course!) but I still chat with them all the time on msn and the like, and so, it hasn't been too bad. Anyway, the point of my life story, lol, was that I could really empathise with Kristy in this book (which is weird - I usually relate more to MA or Mal, not Kristy).
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