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Post by hitzpink on Apr 17, 2006 22:19:11 GMT -5
This book was a little boring. It may have been more interesting if every other chapter wasn't about Jamie Newton learning how to ride his bike. He was a little bratty in this book, which is uncharacteristic for him (but normal for a 4 year old, of course). Poor Lucy got banished to her playpen everytime somebody sat for them so that the sitter could help Jamie practice riding his bike all afternoon.
Mallory running for secretary seems so random. Maybe because it was basically mentioned once in the beginning and then again at the end when they announced that she'd won. I wish they would have focused a little more on her than on Jamie. Also, how does she go from secretary of the 6th grade (you know these things are only popularity contests) to Spaz Girl in a matter of months?
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macca
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Post by macca on Apr 18, 2006 1:46:31 GMT -5
This was alright, a tad predictable. And the Jamie Newton subplot was sleep-inducing.
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Post by lisa on Apr 18, 2006 3:47:11 GMT -5
I liked the book better when I read it last month, than i did when I was in my BSC prime, but still nothing to write home about.
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Post by inge on Apr 18, 2006 4:46:12 GMT -5
I didn't like it much either. Boring and predictable pretty much say it all.
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Post by jen on Apr 18, 2006 8:00:50 GMT -5
Mal doesn't go from secretary to Spaz Girl in a matter of months! Well, I suppose really, she does... if she were only in the sixth grade for a year. But this is the BSC time warp, so there was really something like five years between secretary and Spaz Girl.
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Post by sotypical42483 on Apr 18, 2006 12:11:10 GMT -5
This book was sooo boring to me. It was so predictible. I don't know why Kristy thought she should run, anyway. I wonder how Mallory got elected as Secretary, I mean did they pick her because they thought she was a dork, therefore smart enough for the job? Oh well. And you never really hear much about her having that position in future books, do you? Like, do they ever have her actually working/doing secretarial duties for the sixth grade? Or is it just kinda mentioned in chapter 2 and forgotten?
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Post by hitzpink on Apr 18, 2006 16:35:10 GMT -5
Hmm, I don't think that we really do hear much about Mal being secretary after this book. Unless I'm mistaken, but I can't recall anything..
The boys who decided to help teach Jamie how to ride his bike at the end were sooo unrealistic! It's a bunch of 7 year olds, and they are saying things like, "You're trying to do too much at once. Let's put the training wheels back on and go from there. We know you can do it, Jamie!" In reality, those kids probably would have been a bunch of little punks picking on him for not being able to ride a bike.
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Amalia
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Post by Amalia on Apr 18, 2006 19:15:01 GMT -5
I think in Don't Give Up Mallory they do talk about the secretary thing. She gets stuck planing a fund-raiser. But yeah, not much else that I could recall.
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Post by jen on Apr 18, 2006 19:49:27 GMT -5
Yeah, I think it was just in "Don't Give Up, Mallory!" that she's the secretary. Well, I mean that in that book, the secretary role definitely plays a part, but I don't think it does in any other book.
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Post by macca on Apr 18, 2006 20:56:18 GMT -5
Its's like Claudia's Personals. Did she ever officially stop doing that column? It seemed as if it continued for a couple of books and was never mentioned again.
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Post by hitzpink on Apr 18, 2006 21:13:06 GMT -5
They shouldn't have even bothered with the Mallory as secretary storyline. They spent a couple paragraphs telling us that she was running and then that she won, and after that it was just done with. (Except apparently in Don't Give Up, Mallory which I haven't read yet) Totally pointless. These kinds of things are like the charges who show up for one book and then disappear.
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jen
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Post by jen on Apr 18, 2006 21:21:28 GMT -5
In Live from WSTO, Claudia mentions that she used to run a personals column, but I can't think of the place where they actually say that she stopped with the column.
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Post by booboobrewer on Apr 18, 2006 23:33:33 GMT -5
They shouldn't have even bothered with the Mallory as secretary storyline. I guess they had to give those lowly junior members a little attention at times.
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Amalia
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Post by Amalia on Apr 18, 2006 23:42:13 GMT -5
I guess they had to give those lowly junior members a little attention at times. Winning Best Fictional story (or something like that) isn't enough?
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Post by jen on Apr 19, 2006 0:20:53 GMT -5
Hee, Mal's one shining moment.
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