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Post by aln1982 on Sept 7, 2007 23:13:50 GMT -5
^ I don't remember that word, either, but I just learned "dibble" by being on this board as I totally missed it in the books ;D The brown stain thing is so disgusting that it's funny. ;D Agree about MA looking pretty. This is one of my favorite covers.
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Post by liss31d on Sept 8, 2007 7:29:37 GMT -5
Agh thinking about that infamous brown stain just horrifies me everytime! So stale!!!! ;D
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Post by baseballchica03 on Sept 8, 2007 21:35:09 GMT -5
I always found the dinner scene to be really creepy, lol. Maybe I was allowed to watch too many Lifetime movies as a little thing, but I totally got a crazy stalker vibe from it. It's just so over-the-top, especially for a thirteen-year-old that it kind of squicks me out--I always have this feeling in the back of my mind that Logan is going to murder Mary Anne and bury her out in the backyard or something. You are definitely not alone in this one! It was like the time he had a horse-drawn carriage for her. He always seemed way, way too over the top for a thirteen year old. Actually, for many guys in general, even. (I usually like Logan, too, except when he's being super controlling.)
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Post by sotypical42483 on Sept 9, 2007 0:11:11 GMT -5
I can't believe Mary Anne actually agreed to sit for hunter and Kerry on V-day. I would have refused and probably burst into tears at the mere suggestion. And then Logan... oh my lord. I love how MA is the one who says "lets cool things down" and then a week later Logan's all "okay I'm ready to start back up again!" like it's up to him at all? I mean hello? you were the one who got dumped, you don't get to decide you are back together.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2007 10:41:56 GMT -5
This is one of the books that makes me wonder what the hell the writer's life was like when he/she was thirteen. My brother is twelve, and the thought of him cooking a candlelit dinner for a girl (or arranging for a horse-drawn carriage to pick her up, for that matter) makes my head explode from the WTF-ness.
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Post by greer on Sept 9, 2007 15:30:32 GMT -5
ann wrote this book, so perhaps this is just how straight middle school relationships are in her mind.
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Post by Kylie90210 on Sept 9, 2007 21:05:24 GMT -5
It's so true, my brother is 13, and while he is more sensitive than the avergae 13 year old boy, he would never think of that idea. Maybe at 17 or 18.
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Post by aln1982 on Sept 9, 2007 23:23:42 GMT -5
^ This book is one reason I think of the girls as being older. I also think it was the whole "fantasy" aspect that was appealing to me rather than it being realistic. I've never had a guy do this for me, even now at 25, so always enjoyed reading about the whole "tux and candlelight" stereotypical romantic date. As for MA sitting for Logan's siblings on Valentine's Day, I probably would have wanted to go over there wtih hopes of seeing who he was going out with. (Probably would have also wanted the chance to make him look bad in front of the new girl. ;D) But I can see MA wanting to stay home and cry or something.
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Post by liss31d on Sept 10, 2007 5:43:37 GMT -5
The idea of a 13 year old in a tux having a candlelit dinner with another 13 year old makes me want to crack up. I'm 17, but even guys in my year wouldn't do that!
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Post by greer on Sept 10, 2007 18:25:00 GMT -5
let's all remember the reason this book was written, that one quote that justifies its existence:
The bracelet on my wrist felt as heavy as an iron chain.
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Post by sotypical42483 on Sept 10, 2007 20:22:28 GMT -5
hah! I love that. Everytime Logan started going off on one of his romantic 13 year old boy gestures, she just let him go through with it and then at the end was like well, wait... I mean come on, give him a break and stop him immediately! Let him save a LITTLE face!
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Post by lilafowler on Oct 10, 2007 23:29:43 GMT -5
I totally thought of this book and the iron chain quote today. I was doing reading for my religion class, and it talked about how some Muslim women wear glass bangles after they get married, to represent the link between themselves and their husbands. If a woman's husband dies before she does, she breaks the bangle to symbolize the end of the bond. There's another sect of people who are celibate and consider themselves married to God, so they wear iron bracelets to represent their bond with God, which can never be broken.
Mary Anne and her iron chain immediately came to mind, and I almost started laughing right there in the library.
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Oct 11, 2007 20:49:07 GMT -5
I cracked up during Kristy's chapter when Karen is being all mope-y and wants Kristy to read her a copy of The Dead Bird. That was cool that they included the Karen-Ricky-Pamela love triangle from "Karen's in Love" since that was one of my fave LS books... I loved that part! And Karen's in Love is also one of my favorite LS books.
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Post by aln1982 on Oct 11, 2007 23:38:44 GMT -5
^ Mine too. I just reread Karen's In Love and liked it even better than I remembered. ;D I need to reread this one soon, too, as I like it pretty well.
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Oct 12, 2007 21:31:36 GMT -5
I always wished for someone to have a pretend playground wedding like Karen and Ricky in grade school but it never happened lol.
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