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Post by aln1982 on Dec 16, 2007 17:25:07 GMT -5
Even though I’ve never read the CA Diaries, I know I’ve heard that Dawn basically changes and doesn’t care about her Stoneybrook friends anymore. I just read Secret Life of MA when she was acting so “cool” and talking about hanging out with HS kids and thinking the BSC was immature. Even though she and MA kind of made up at the end, I wonder if this was the start of the change and saw it as possible foreshadowing. Anyone else notice Dawn changing in later books? Was Secret Life before or after CA Diaries started?
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Post by booboobrewer on Dec 16, 2007 17:31:12 GMT -5
I think maybe it was published after the CA Diaries started, because I remember not being totally surprised that Dawn was acting that way in Secret Life. I could be wrong though.
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Post by songheim on Dec 17, 2007 20:20:36 GMT -5
I just read Stacey's Broken Heart and that one has lotsa obvious foreshadowing of tensions between Abby and Kristy before Kristy's Worst Idea. Of course the big thing I noticed was that even with Kristy away, Abby STILL felt the need to put on yet another d**n festival (lord I hate those subplots)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2007 20:38:32 GMT -5
True, but in Kristy's Worst Idea they focused on it a bit, and the next book, #101, was the one where she gets placed back a year.
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Post by aln1982 on Dec 20, 2007 0:14:41 GMT -5
I just read Stacey's Broken Heart and that one has lotsa obvious foreshadowing of tensions between Abby and Kristy before Kristy's Worst Idea. Of course the big thing I noticed was that even with Kristy away, Abby STILL felt the need to put on yet another d**n festival (lord I hate those subplots) Was it Abby who thought up the festival in that one? I completely can't remember that subplot except that Abby didn't do a very good job. ;D
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Post by songheim on Dec 20, 2007 2:08:03 GMT -5
Yeah she thought it up for some reason. Cause, you know, god forbid they go more than a couple of weeks without putting one on. No wonder Claudia has trouble in school, she spends all her time helping putting these things together!
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Post by aln1982 on Dec 20, 2007 8:57:15 GMT -5
^ I think Claudia would find any excuse to focus on art rather than "skule" ;D Maybe distractions like these make Abby have more trouble, though..... ;D Maybe her experience at this festival may have been foreshadowing to her math troubles in Lucky Thirteen (though that one might have actually come first) as she obviously doesn't know how to balance a budget. ;D
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Post by macca on Dec 20, 2007 15:39:22 GMT -5
Was it Abby who thought up the festival in that one? I completely can't remember that subplot except that Abby didn't do a very good job. ;D I wish Abby had pulled it off. It was so awesome how she stood up to Kristy.
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Post by aln1982 on Dec 20, 2007 15:50:01 GMT -5
^ I liked how she stood up to Kristy, too, but like Kristy's organization skills and how people who aren't organized (like the WLKC) drive her crazy and make her want to take over. I'm like this, too, so can relate. ;D I think Abby would be the kind of person that I would want to throttle when it came to just throwing things together so her succeeding would have been like proving that it's okay to do things like that.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2007 12:02:06 GMT -5
Interesting that you brought up the Boxcar Children series. I was really into these in like 2nd and 3rd grade and I see a lot of similarities in these mysteries as in the BSC books. I guess the whole idea of a group of kids (like me and my friends/siblings!) solving mysteries is very attractive to kids. I'm going to look up Gertrude Chandler Warner right now. Has she really been dead for 30 years?
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Post by blossom114 on Dec 25, 2007 1:57:20 GMT -5
^ the books were first published in the forties or something.... I just rereaad the first book for the first time in YEARS and did a little bit of background looking up.. I think she wrote the first eighteen books and then she died... in the first eighteen books all the kids grow older, but then when the ghostwriters took over, the kids remained 14,12,10 and 6... or something like that.
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Post by aln1982 on Jan 2, 2008 0:43:04 GMT -5
Am rereading MA and the Memory Garden and there are a few paragraphs about the house being a fire hazard and having new smoke alarms put in (this may have already been mentioned in this thread. If so, sorry. ;D) Wonder if this was intentional, if Ann knew already how she was going to end the series.
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Post by greer on Jan 2, 2008 1:18:50 GMT -5
I don't think so, aln, because in 100's letter she said that she hoped the bsc would still be around to book 200. Perhaps they reflected on this idea seeded by this mention when they were planning the transition to ff though.
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Post by aln1982 on Jan 19, 2008 16:06:54 GMT -5
In Sad Goodbye, I noticed they're talking at the end about Jessi trying out for Swan Lake, which she does in Superbrat - the next book. I always like references like that and would think that connecting the books might have helped them sell. I know I am always curious to find out more about something that is mentioned in another book.
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Post by booboobrewer on Jan 19, 2008 16:52:12 GMT -5
I always liked that too, when the ending of one led into the next one.
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