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Post by booboobrewer on Dec 3, 2008 20:45:15 GMT -5
I love how there are supposed to be like twenty people at Dawn's farewell party but no one has any lines except the BSC members. Typical! The food in this book sounds really good.
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Post by sparklymouse on Dec 4, 2008 19:19:58 GMT -5
Who did they even invite? They didn't hang out with anyone but each other! Unless the invites said something like "The California freak is leaving again. Let's party!" I don't figure too many people would want to go to Dawn's party.
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Post by booboobrewer on Dec 4, 2008 22:02:05 GMT -5
They mentioned Emily, Robert, Ben, and Bart.
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Post by ringdings on Dec 4, 2008 22:11:57 GMT -5
Didn't they also invite Erica Blumberg? I remember reading that and thinking "when did Dawn become chummy with Erica?" And Emily for the matter?
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Post by starlett2010 on Dec 4, 2008 23:00:30 GMT -5
Who did they even invite? They didn't hang out with anyone but each other! Unless the invites said something like "The California freak is leaving again. Let's party!" I don't figure too many people would want to go to Dawn's party. Heehee...my thoughts exactly! Only, I was meaner and thought the BSC invited people as a "Dawn's going away....let's celebrate!!!" type of thing rather than a going away party. Poor Dawn, she does make herself unpopular, doesn't she? lol
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Post by booboobrewer on Dec 5, 2008 2:36:26 GMT -5
Didn't they also invite Erica Blumberg? I remember reading that and thinking "when did Dawn become chummy with Erica?" And Emily for the matter? They might have invited her, but they didn't say; it was just "others." Both Erica and Emily spend time with Dawn in Undercover Babysitter...
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Post by ringdings on Dec 5, 2008 7:45:52 GMT -5
^^Yeah, booboo, I was actually thinking of Undercover Baby-sitter. (I remembered after I turned off my computer and got ready for bed.) Dawn has had so many farewell parties I can't keep them straight.
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Post by Crystal Clair on Dec 10, 2008 17:26:24 GMT -5
Was it this book where Dawn was in the aiport, thinking that the door closing would mean the closing of an era of her life? Or was that the other one?
I read this book recently. The part where Dawn tells her mother that she wants to move back to California for good, I reread it so much because it was just so.... unbelievable. I've reread/rewinded quite a few things in the last few years actually
I shut my eyes and balled my hands into fists. “I want to move back to California.”
I opened my eyes and saw that Mom looked slightly pale although her expression was blank. “For how long?” she asked after a moment.”
“To stay,” I replied in a small voice.
To stay
To stay
To stay
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Post by sparklymouse on Dec 10, 2008 19:25:32 GMT -5
^I think Dawn genuinely felt like crap about leaving her mom. If Sharon hadn't married Richard, Dawn very likely would have stayed in Stoneybrook unhappily so that Sharon wasn't alone.
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Post by Crystal Clair on Dec 10, 2008 20:51:52 GMT -5
Yeah, I got that feeling from "Dawn on the Coast" when she was talking about the Trip man and how her mother was going to be able to live by herself for two whole weeks being absent-minded like she is.
I do wish I could relate more to Dawn missing her hometown. I grew up outside a large city too and I really feel connected to the town and would become homesick if I ever left it. However, I've never left it so therefore I can't relate to her decision.
It also doesn't help that she's from Southern California and I'm from New York City. Two completely different places, and not just in weather either.
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Post by wenonah4th on Jan 26, 2009 11:02:25 GMT -5
^no kidding- didn't we sort of get that idea from the books?!
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Post by candykane on Jan 27, 2009 10:47:29 GMT -5
I think so, too. And maybe even more so because she'd previously said that she'd never leave her (in Dawn on the Coast). And then she did go back for six months, came back, and now is leaving again permanently. That's a lot of jerking around with people's emotions there. I'm not saying Dawn should have stayed there and been miserable, but her coming and going had to be very hard on Sharon.
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Jan 28, 2009 17:26:03 GMT -5
Unless the invites said something like "The California freak is leaving again. Let's party!" I don't figure too many people would want to go to Dawn's party. Lol, I bet you that was what Kristy was thinking, judging by her happy expression on the book cover while she's waving good-bye to Dawn ;D.
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Post by anzuhana on Apr 23, 2009 15:47:50 GMT -5
I know a lot of people don't like how Mary Anne acted here but maybe her hissy fit was karma's way of payback. After all, Dawn had her own hissy fit about Jeff leaving. Also, I don't like that Dawn didn't tell Mary Anne that she was moving back permanently. After all, Mary Anne is family.
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Post by zoar3 on Apr 23, 2009 20:56:52 GMT -5
Sparklymouse and SweetValleygirl, Lol, and I agree. I normally didn't care for Kristy's brashness when it was downright rude or mean but I was glad to be permanately rid of Dawn myself! I wish that had given K and MA an opportunity to rekindle/restablish the friendship they supposedly once shared. I still don't remember too many instances where the two of them truly hung out together and were bff. Candykane, as much as I really did not care for Dawn, I did (like the other girls) want her to be happy but never gave thought to how hard it must have been for her to come and go like that...and on Sharon, too. I think after living in CA again for supposedly 6 months-BSC time-she might have decided to return to Stoneybrook just to be absolutely positive CA was truly where she felt most at home but I'd think she would have known that after a few weeks at the most. While Sharon might not have wanted to admit it, as Dawn's mother it seems like she would be able to sense her daughter's ambivalence. Honestly, in a lesser way MA and Richard, too. anzuhana, Dawn should have told MA at least after talking with her mother.
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