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Post by bscfan1997 on Nov 16, 2015 17:28:02 GMT -5
Funny, cute moments I forgot: Jordan singing "We the People". Vanessa styling hair on the playground. It's too predictable for her to publish poems in magazines, so I'm glad she went for hairstyling even if it was off character. The sleepover at the end. I liked how Mallory prank called those mean girls. Moments that irked me: Dibble and fresh and stale and chilly were used waaayyyy too much. "Queen of dibbledom" try queen of dorkiness. How even the little kids bullied the pikes. Why would they even care about their family's money problems?
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Post by CharlotteTJohanssen on Nov 17, 2015 10:39:20 GMT -5
I loved how Vanessa was styling hair instead of trying to sell her poems. I don't think she would have made much money selling her poems anyway.
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Post by oldhickory on Nov 17, 2015 13:28:20 GMT -5
^ I had the same hairstyle every day up until about sixth grade, and the same hairstyle pretty much every day since, so I guarantee I would have been a customer of hers. I was bad at styling my own hair and I would have loved someone making me look pretty. In ninth grade my best friend Laura would give me a fancy French braid everyday after gym class and even at 14 I loved it.
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Post by booboobrewer on Aug 20, 2016 18:02:54 GMT -5
Reading this book in particular really takes me back. It's such a good one. One of the oddest beginnings, though, with that underwear song. But Mal is a great big sister here. Claire is very cute and not annoying at all. "'Cause of the baggage'" is my now my all-time favorite Claire line (when she meant "mortgage")
I think Ann thinks it's cute to portray kids as always wanting to make a buck. I believe Mal paid her brothers to carry her suitcase for her in NY, NY.
Also, she says she will "never again take junk food for granted" when she has a mouthful of ham and cheese hoagie at the end. Ham, cheese, and bread are junk food?
Mary Anne crying while making the pig farm call is classic.
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Post by sparklymouse on Aug 20, 2016 18:35:15 GMT -5
I always wanted to make a buck, but no one would pay me. I remember being excited by money, though. I had a Subway yesterday, and I'd call it kinda junky.
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Post by silverneurotic on Aug 21, 2016 22:51:04 GMT -5
Did anyone else feel uncomfortable with the fact that the Delaney's were perfectly fine leaving an 11 year old in charge of a group of kids in a swimming pool?
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Post by starfire13 on Aug 29, 2016 11:51:45 GMT -5
Did anyone else feel uncomfortable with the fact that the Delaney's were perfectly fine leaving an 11 year old in charge of a group of kids in a swimming pool? Yeahhhhh... you'd think they'd have a rule, like, "Okay, you two can go in the pool while Mallory's here: but no friends in the pool!" at the very least, you know? I mean, I could see a lot of families saying no to the pool altogether, but presumably Max and Amanda are great swimmers, plus there's only two of them. Very easy for Mallory to keep an eye on, and if something happens to one of them, the other one can help Mal get them out of the pool or run to the neighbours or call 911. I definitely wouldn't allow a whole gaggle of children to be in my pool with just an 11 year old watching. That's totes a lawsuit waiting to happen haha
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Post by wistfuldreamer86 on Mar 3, 2020 0:20:25 GMT -5
Well everyone knows the BSC girls are super responsible and more like 20 year olds than 12/13 year olds. lol.
Who else thought it was weird that Mr. Pike was a lawyer? I just never got that impression from other books. And that Mrs. Pike was a homemaker. I always thought she worked before because she needed so many baby-sitters, lol.
I actually liked this book all around though. It was cute to see the Pike kids getting together to help the family out. They might fight a lot but they really love each other. Also liked how Vanessa was secretly styling other kids hair instead of writing poetry like she claimed.
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Post by swizzles on Oct 4, 2020 5:41:46 GMT -5
Loved re-reading this one! Some nice complexity to Amanda Delaney at last! I did feel sorry for father Pike in this one - I could totally understand stress and the pressure on his shoulders resulting in him snapping at his kids. Eight different versions of ‘are you ok?’ on a daily basis would drive anyone bonkers, even if that person is an otherwise easygoing parent. Although not spelled out explicitly, the book did seem to hint that Mr Pike resented the fact that his wife was now the breadwinner; as though the concept of her doing this and not solely keeping house (and instead- expecting him to do so) was an affront to his masculinity. Interesting - I’ve come to expect nothing but progressive feminist views by all inhabitants of Stoneybrook, and the ones who don’t fit the mould are quickly dispensed with as a warning (hello, Patrick).
I thought the opening to this book was exceptionally odd. What were these weird songs that the triplets came up with?!
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Post by livvy on Feb 12, 2021 11:00:46 GMT -5
I related to Mallory in this book because I was 13 at the time . Or fourteen . Not sure when it was published . Anyway my father had been fired from his job around the same time this book was released so it helped me to deal with it. Mum worked full time so I knew we weren't going to be poor like Mallory . But still! One of my favourites from the series and boy if Nan ever said that to me what she said to Mal I would have slapped her .
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Post by livvy on Feb 13, 2021 0:50:04 GMT -5
Anyone who wastes four hundred dollars on a cat where you can adopt them from a shelter are nuts .
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Post by candykane on Sept 16, 2021 17:21:09 GMT -5
I'm reading this in ebook format and decided to search how many times Mal used the words "dibble" or "dibbly". Twelve times! 😆
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Post by wistfuldreamer86 on Nov 9, 2021 21:10:13 GMT -5
^ It's her favorite word, lol.
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Post by sparklymouse on Nov 9, 2021 22:11:53 GMT -5
The "dibbles" were not actually used in very many books that I recall. They really pushed them for a few books and then silence. I wonder if it was a creation of a certain ghostwriter who was trying to make it happen. *cough* Peter? *cough*
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Post by wanderingfrog on Jan 19, 2022 18:00:57 GMT -5
Reading this book in particular really takes me back. It's such a good one. One of the oddest beginnings, though, with that underwear song. I'm about halfway through listening to this book on Audible, and the underwear song is a really odd beginning to just hear out of nowhere when you don't remember that's how the book starts! One weird thing, though, is that the audiobook cuts out a couple of lines from the "Mr. Johnny Rebeck" song. It's supposed to be something like "All the neighbors' dogs and cats will nevermore be seen / For they've all been ground to sausages in Mr. Johnny Rebeck's machine!" and it just... leaves that part out. So when Mallory says, "Oh, ew!" because she suddenly understands what the song is really about... there's no way the listener can understand what the song means because the dogs and cats aren't mentioned at all. I guess they thought it was too gross, but it's stupid to leave in the part about Mal thinking it's gross when there isn't any reason why. Not gonna lie, I am dying to hear how this sounds on audiobook!
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