|
Post by spazgirl on Aug 8, 2006 7:33:25 GMT -5
Eh this book was okay, nothing really exciting about it. I liked reading about the kid's circus though, the animal costumes sounded ADORABLE as did the "Dr. Dog" scene. I was expecting a BSC fight over Mary Anne's babying of Alicia Gianetti, but no luck. And I was hoping Dawn would get mad at her for being standoffish, but still didn't happen. No conflict in this book. Karen was a complete witch in this one, trying to ruin everyone else's good time because Camp BSC wasn't a "real" circus camp like the one she had been to. STFU Karen. Please.
I thought it was funny at the end when Mary Anne says to her dad that she's "practically grown up" and shouldn't be missing him so much when he goes away. Ahh those 13-year-olds.
My only question, Mary Anne kept calling the campers the "SMS and SES" kids. Thats a typo right? She did it twice though. SES is Stoneybrook Elementary School of course. SMS is supposed to be Stoneybrook Academy somehow. Stoneybook Academy would be like SAS or something...
|
|
starrynight
Sitting For The Kuhns
The Royal Diner of Pizza Express
Posts: 4,004
|
Post by starrynight on Aug 8, 2006 17:08:57 GMT -5
I get this day camp confused with the "Mini Camp" that Mary Anne and Dawn ran back in SS #10. It's basically the same camp, but with circus stuff the second time around. I don't think they even referred to the fact that they'd run a camp before.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2006 20:52:14 GMT -5
No, because that would be admitting they're repeating their 8th grade summer for the 12th hundred time. Even though that totally annoyed me. Especially because I also read this book soon after watching the movie where they yet again held a camp in their backyard!
|
|
jen
Sitting For The Johanssens
Posts: 1,156
|
Post by jen on Aug 10, 2006 5:46:03 GMT -5
It seemed like they held a gazillion camps. Mary Anne was sort of annoying in this one... But she was fine after she realised she was being a whiny baby
|
|
lisa
New To Stoneybrook
Posts: 201
|
Post by lisa on Nov 10, 2006 2:06:08 GMT -5
There's a bowling alley in Stoneybrook? Wouldn't it have made sense to use bumpers for the kids so they weren't all winging about the fact that their balls kept going into the gutters. Could ahve saved a whole lot of Claire-tantrums.
And Dawn's back to eating meat...well, turkey-dogs.
|
|
jen
Sitting For The Johanssens
Posts: 1,156
|
Post by jen on Nov 10, 2006 4:53:15 GMT -5
Oh! They did mention the other summer camp! At the beginning, when they first bring up the idea, they said it would be like the camp that Dawn and Mary Anne held before.
|
|
|
Post by sotypical42483 on Jan 8, 2007 12:30:57 GMT -5
This book sucked. It was so boring! It made no sense that the ONLY families who needed sitters during this 3(?) weeks were kids at camp. The Rodowsky's didn't need anyone? The Perkins? I skipped all the circus junk. Snore.
Also WTF half the kids have been to "real" circus camp?! Who has EVER been to CIRCUS camp?! I mean it just seems awfully coincidential that half these kids went to a random friggin circus camp.
I thought it was cute how MA missed her dad though. I like her relationship with him later in the series.
|
|
|
Post by greer on Jan 8, 2007 14:44:53 GMT -5
the kids who went to circus camp are all in the same class at stoneybrook academy, so i guess like, someone was all OMG U GUYZ I AM SOOO GOING TO CIRCUS CAMP THIS SUMMER!! and everyone else signed up too.
|
|
|
Post by sotypical42483 on Jan 9, 2007 12:24:41 GMT -5
Yeah that's true, greer (btw, welcome back!). Stoneybrook Academy, is that a private school? Cause I always thought it was where the rich kids go, but Nancy goes there and she lives next door to the Little House.
Although, there was one kid (Ricky or Bobby?) who went to a DIFFERENT circus camp than the rest of the kids.
|
|
|
Post by greer on Jan 9, 2007 12:40:14 GMT -5
Thanks Stoneybrook Academy is private. That is weird about the different circus camp thing, though. I haven't read this book in a while so I didn't remember that detail.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2007 14:18:17 GMT -5
Ugh, I'm reading this one for the first time and I can hardly get through it. I don't much like plots centering around the kids anyway, and this one is a complete non-plot. Karen is annoying, the little girl with separation anxiety is annoying, and the subplot about MA missing her father is just boring. Although I would be annoyed by the take out containers everywhere, too.
She just sprained her ankle. This still isn't creating any more of a plot. I think this one is in the running for my least favorite book ever, edging out Dawn and the Big Sleepover.
|
|
|
Post by liss31d on Nov 4, 2007 7:23:57 GMT -5
Just re-read this book. Argh Karen and all of the Stoneybrook Academy kids were so irritating with their snotty 'Oh this isn't a REAL circus camp' attitude. Karen was definitely at her bitchiest in this book, she called Alicia a baby, said that the circus was stupid but that the SA kids better be in it so it won't be as stupid, makes fun of Ricky for wanting to dance, constant sarcasm ("Oh brother! How exciting!"), rolling her eyes a lot, makes fun of Vanessa, etc... I know we moan about Karen but she unlike most of the books, she was very unpleasant in this one. MA just whines all the way through this book. I know it's not great when one of your parents goes away, but MA is supposed to be used to this. Her dad used to do this more often when she was younger what with all of her babysitters. She didn't have fun when Dawn and Sharon were 'baching' it, such as when they were watching silly movies and she didn't bother trying to have fun with ordering different foods. I know what she means about missing home cooked meals and hating all the mess in the house 'cause I'd find that a bit annoying too after a while, but she gets so moody about it. Same with her twisted ankle, I know it hurts a lot, but Dawn and Sharon looked after her and were trying to cheer her up by inviting her to the drive-in with them, but MA bluntly says no yet narrates to us that they have "abandoned" her She moans about being 'Maid Mary Anne' again when she decides to tidy up everything even though no one asked her to. Then she says again and again throughout the book that "No one even cared" what she did or about how she was feeling... God MA don't be such a bloody martyr! Of course they care, but as usual MA waited until the last minute to tell them how she was feeling. Hehe then Richard of all people tells her to loosen up ;D MA kind of scared me when she said that she was in the "world's meanest foulest mood" and felt like the dinosaur on TV who was flattening everything in sight... for someone who's meant to be placid, MA can get kinda scary!
|
|
|
Post by aln1982 on Nov 4, 2007 16:39:50 GMT -5
^ Totally agree. I usually love Karen and her friends but they seemed really out of character in this one. MA really bothered me, too. I think one of the only things I liked about the book was that Alicia sounds like a cute little kid (though clingy). ;D Definitely one of my less favorites and I tend to just forget it exists, though, rather than think of it that way.
|
|
starrynight
Sitting For The Kuhns
The Royal Diner of Pizza Express
Posts: 4,004
|
Post by starrynight on Nov 5, 2007 15:07:46 GMT -5
I thought Mary Anne's attitude was fairly realistic. When I'm in a bad mood, I tend to adopt the "no one cares, and I'm so put-upon" mindset as well. I like that this book showed that it's okay to be a teenager and miss your parents and not be a total adult all the time. Kids grow up too fast these days (I sound like I'm 70!!!)
|
|
wanderingfrog
Sitting For The Arnolds
Official BSC Archivist
Posts: 2,552
|
Post by wanderingfrog on Nov 5, 2007 16:17:10 GMT -5
This is one of the few BSC books that I don't remember at all. This thread doesn't give me much incentive to reread it, but I will someday.
|
|