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Post by aln1982 on Oct 23, 2007 7:51:02 GMT -5
^ I'm always seeing connections like that. ;D Glad I'm not the only one. Also agree ringdings about the clothing. I don't remember Mal's parents ever making a huge deal about it, though, so I'll have to reread Goodbye Stacey and some of the early book to check.
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Post by sotypical42483 on Oct 23, 2007 21:08:31 GMT -5
I don't see how Claudia could've stopped them from holding meetings in her room. If she had, I would imagine she'd be kicked out of the club cause let's face it, all the girl contributes is a phone and candy. Plus, didn't she often call RIGHT before the meeting? They all would've been there anyway! What were they supposed to do? Cancel their meeting because Claudia is being an annoying flake? Why should the whole club have to suffer because Claudia has no backbone and can't tell Ashley she needs to go?
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Post by aln1982 on Oct 23, 2007 23:32:29 GMT -5
^ Agree about not knowing Claudia wasn't there until the last minute and about her having no backbone in this one. ;D
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Post by macca on Oct 24, 2007 4:01:13 GMT -5
Yeah, I understand why they still held the meeting, but trashing her room was overstepping the boundaries. No matter how annoyed you are with someone, you can't make use of their bedroom and phone, eat all their food and then trash their room because they dared to have an outside interest.
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Post by starrynight on Oct 27, 2008 12:30:35 GMT -5
Yeah, I understand why they still held the meeting, but trashing her room was overstepping the boundaries. No matter how annoyed you are with someone, you can't make use of their bedroom and phone, eat all their food and then trash their room because they dared to have an outside interest. I agree...but we're not 13 year old girls. When I was younger, I had a friend who used to try and wreck my stuff because she was mad at me.
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Post by candykane on Feb 21, 2009 16:35:56 GMT -5
I just re-read this one. Two Wizard of Oz references (Ann never quits, does she?). One reference was to someone's doorbell playing "Over the Rainbow" and the other was Wicked Witch of the West on a list of "famous traitors" that Kristy left in Claudia's room when they were all leaving nasty notes for her to find.
Shea's piano teacher is named Mrs. Schiavone. In Snowbound that surname gets used again (The Schiavones were the people that Stacey & her mom stayed with when their car got stuck). Ann must have known someone with that name, because it's a less common name and I doubt she'd just randomly use it in two different books written several years apart.
Ashley Wyeth supposedly dresses "weird," but really, her outfits don't sound as ridiculous as some of the stuff that Claudia puts together. I actually quite like long, flowy skirts like the ones Ashley was described as wearing.
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Post by booboobrewer on Feb 21, 2009 17:34:38 GMT -5
I like the skirt she's wearing on the cover.
One thing I never understood as a kid was the mention of her hair being in a braid that wasn't tied with anything--it just trailed to an end. I thought, wouldn't the braid just unwind? Maybe Ashley had really dry hair. ;D
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Post by ringdings on Feb 22, 2009 12:26:09 GMT -5
I like long skirts too. I think it was the hiking boots that made the outfit weird. I remember in one of the later Ramona books, Beezus wore that combination to a party. I guess it was in style back in the '80s, but I don't remember.
But candykane is right--not as weird at whatever Claudia tends to put together.
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Post by greer on Feb 22, 2009 13:31:57 GMT -5
There were no Ramona books written in the 80s--Ramona Forever was written in the late 70s, and then there was no Ramona until the late 90s or early 2000s when Ramona's World came out.
But the Anastasia Krupnik books were written mostly in the 80s, and Anastasia and her friends all wear hiking boots. So I think they were pretty in style.
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Post by ringdings on Feb 22, 2009 13:51:11 GMT -5
Actually, Ramona Forever was published in 1984, but I was thinking of Ramona's World, which was published in 1999.
Hmmm...if hiking boots were in style then, I wonder why Stacey never wore them?
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Post by sparklymouse on Feb 22, 2009 19:51:48 GMT -5
I wore hiking boots during the 90s grunge era. I also wore flannel and probably looked like a lumberjack. I don't think that was a look Stacey wanted.
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Post by candykane on Feb 23, 2009 9:45:23 GMT -5
I never understood it, either...even when my hair was really long, it wouldn't have stayed in a braid by itself. After about an hour the whole thing would probably be undone!
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Post by wenonah4th on Feb 23, 2009 10:14:34 GMT -5
IF her hair was scragglly at the ends and thinner than at the top, it might have held in the braid.
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Post by candykane on Feb 23, 2009 11:26:15 GMT -5
^Scraggly and thin doesn't sound very nice-looking, though!
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Post by wenonah4th on Feb 24, 2009 6:41:59 GMT -5
No, but it would have held.
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