Hey everyone. I just recently started rereading some old BSC books (thanks to this board and other sites like it). This is about the tenth book I’ve read so far, and I thought I should try to start writing down some of my thoughts following each book:
Let’s start with the cover (I have the old cover, BTW):-This is definitely not how I would picture Kristy’s room. It’s so clean and frilly and girly and very…peach.
-Did anyone take a close look at Emily Michelle’s face? Her body looks like a little kid’s, but then I took a good look at her face, and it looks like it could belong to a 40-year-old! Creepy.
-Would anyone who is running for school office really use so much patriotic coloring? I don’t see how it relates to an 8th grade election. If you wanted to use significant colors, wouldn’t you use your school colors?
-On my cover, the bubble saying “free bookmark” covers the “y” on the “Vote for Kristy” poster, so it looks like she’s asking us to “Vote for Krist”. Knowing Kristy’s God-complex, this is not too surprising.
Overall likes/dislikes in the book:-Overall, this book was pretty boring.
-I did like Mary Anne in this book. She was sensitive in the good sense of the word, and perceptive. Not psycho. Her best-friend-relationship with Kristy seemed believable and touching.
-Like others have said, the Jamie-learning-to-ride-his-bike subplot was absolutely painfully boring.
-I can’t believe how many typos and misspellings I’m finding now that I’m rereading as an adult! I’m surprised at some of them (like on page 65, Kristy says something about Mr. Kingbridge, the “vice-principle”).
-I loved how on page 34 the babyish choice of Mary Poppins for the school play is being bashed by all the sitters…but Stacey is mysteriously quiet. After all,
she seems so sophisticated, since she’s from New York and her hair is permed and everything, but no kidding, her favorite movie is Mary Poppins!Sentences that took on a new meaning now that I’m reading as an adult:-pg 44 – Kristy says: “Or Extra-special K.”
-pg 47 – Dawn says: “I vote for ‘shrooms.”
-pg 132 – Kristy says: “Then I told Bart, reluctantly, that I had to get off.”
There were three Claudia outfit descriptions in this book!-pg 25 – “Today, for instance, Claudia was wearing lime green bicycle pants, a long, long bright pink shirt, and a cropped lime green striped shirt over that. She was also wearing black hightop leather sneakers with pink butterfly barrettes clipped to the laces. She had two feather earrings in one ear (lime green, of course), and a tiny pink heart in the other…[her hair] was pulled up on top of her head and fell down to one side.”
-pg 51 – “Claudia was dressed fairly conservatively: white jeans, red shoes with big bows, a tropical jungle shirt with each button shaped like a piece of fruit, and her hair pulled to one side over her shoulder with a banana barrette.”
-pg 138 – “Claud’s hair was down, but she was wearing a hat. On the green hat ribbon was pinned a ‘Kristy+’ button. Her tights were orange and her dress was tie-dyed every color you could think of. She was wearing her feather earrings, and she’d drawn a star on her face next to her right eye.
Heck, there were even two Stacey outfit descriptions:-pg 31 – “…she was wearing a black shirt and tights that were two colors: one leg was red and the other was black. And her shoes were shiny black and laced up to the ankles. She was also wearing this enormous black turtleneck sweater with red flecks in it, and one round red earring and one square one. Her hair, which was in a mid-perm stage around her face, was pulled back with this silver lamé band.”
-pg 138 – “Stacey had pulled her hair back into a braid with a silver hat pin stuck through it. She was wearing purple capri pants, soft black flat ankle boots, black-and-white-striped socks, and a black-and-white-checked shirt, only the checks were all different sizes. She had square silver earrings in her ears.”
And I was cracking up reading the above discussion on
A Raisin in the Sun:
I can see a book about SMS putting on Raisin in the Sun. A Super Special -- "Baby-sitters in Blackface!"
With a subtitle:
Except for Jessi, Because (There's Just No Other Way to Say This) JESSI'S BLACK!OMG, I was dying when I was reading about your guys' comments about a virtually all-white school trying to put on a production of 13-year-olds doing
A Raisin in the Sun. Your above comments made me picture this:
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