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Post by Honeybee on Aug 18, 2013 23:23:13 GMT -5
Rereading this book. Kristy, Mary Anne, Claudia, & Dawn irritates me. When, Mallory mentions, that Nicky's finger got broken by the volleyball. That Mallory should invented accidents. It's like, wow Kristy. You think Mallory is a mutant, who can see the future, she can stop the ball with her mind. Accidents happen. What is she suppose to do? Jump in front of the volleyball, have the volleyball hit her body. Say to Nicky, oh, I don't want you get hurt. If, I didn't stop the ball. You will have a broken finger. Her whole family will think she's crazy.
It's unfair of the test they gave her. Seriously? Each baby teeth different months. Creeping and crawling. I never heard in my life, a parent said, that their child is creeping for the first time.
Here's the defintion of creeping:
1. Move slowly and carefully, esp. in order to avoid being heard or noticed: "they were taught how to creep up on an enemy".
2. (of a thing) Move very slowly at a steady pace: "the fog was creeping up from the marsh".
a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body; "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep"
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Post by candykane on Jan 19, 2014 19:11:56 GMT -5
I reread this one today. It's one of my favorite Mallory books. I wish Mallory had stayed snarky like she was in this book, instead of becoming "outcast of riding class" Mallory or "I suck at gym and everyone laughs at me for it" Mallory or "I can't believe fiction writers would write stuff that's not true" Mallory...you get the idea. There wasn't anywhere near the same level of whining and complaining that we got in Trouble With Twins. In this book, Mallory's a lot more matter-of-fact about not being allowed to wear certain clothes, having to get braces, etc. I think Mallory spending so much time with the older girls really cemented her "my parents think I'm a baby" mindset, because of course she'd always be comparing her lives to theirs.
I love the outfit descriptions in this book. We've talked a lot about Mallory's red jumper and heart tights, but I loved how she paid so much attention to the other girls' clothing. Mary Anne had a cute outfit of a yellow sweater, a squiggle pin, a skirt made of sweat shirt material, yellow tights, and ballet slippers. Squiggle jewelry is so 80s and I love that they wore it. I remember Laine wearing a squiggle pin (in Stacey's Mistake, I think), and my older sister who was an 80s teen had pink squiggle earrings that I loved.
I also like how Mallory describes each of the girls in Chapter 3, and because she doesn't know them too well yet, she makes a few assumptions. For example, in describing Kristy, Mal says "I guess her mother doesn't let her wear makeup because her face is always plain." Of course, we all know Kristy wouldn't be caught dead wearing a bunch of makeup! I also LOLed when Mallory said she didn't know what Dawn's job was before becoming treasurer. "Nothing too important, I guess. Maybe she was just another sitter."
After reading the chapter with Claudia and Mallory's job at the Perkins house, I have to say again - train your dog, Perkinses! Chewy is crazy. Yes, Labs are hyper when they're young, but they're also very smart and it's not that hard to train them to behave properly.
I have always wanted to try out a toy printing press because of this book!
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Post by Honeybee on Jan 20, 2014 0:24:26 GMT -5
I reread this one today. It's one of my favorite Mallory books. I wish Mallory had stayed snarky like she was in this book, instead of becoming "outcast of riding class" Mallory or "I suck at gym and everyone laughs at me for it" Mallory or "I can't believe fiction writers would write stuff that's not true" Mallory...you get the idea. There wasn't anywhere near the same level of whining and complaining that we got in Trouble With Twins. In this book, Mallory's a lot more matter-of-fact about not being allowed to wear certain clothes, having to get braces, etc. I think Mallory spending so much time with the older girls really cemented her "my parents think I'm a baby" mindset, because of course she'd always be comparing her lives to theirs. I love the outfit descriptions in this book. We've talked a lot about Mallory's red jumper and heart tights, but I loved how she paid so much attention to the other girls' clothing. Mary Anne had a cute outfit of a yellow sweater, a squiggle pin, a skirt made of sweat shirt material, yellow tights, and ballet slippers. Squiggle jewelry is so 80s and I love that they wore it. I remember Laine wearing a squiggle pin (in Stacey's Mistake, I think), and my older sister who was an 80s teen had pink squiggle earrings that I loved. I also like how Mallory describes each of the girls in Chapter 3, and because she doesn't know them too well yet, she makes a few assumptions. For example, in describing Kristy, Mal says "I guess her mother doesn't let her wear makeup because her face is always plain." Of course, we all know Kristy wouldn't be caught dead wearing a bunch of makeup! I also LOLed when Mallory said she didn't know what Dawn's job was before becoming treasurer. "Nothing too important, I guess. Maybe she was just another sitter." After reading the chapter with Claudia and Mallory's job at the Perkins house, I have to say again - train your dog, Perkinses! Chewy is crazy. Yes, Labs are hyper when they're young, but they're also very smart and it's not that hard to train them to behave properly. I have always wanted to try out a toy printing press because of this book! That cracks me up, when she mentions about Kristy not wearing makeup and Dawn was just another sitter.
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Post by wenonah4th on Jan 28, 2014 15:19:20 GMT -5
My mom has a Christmas tree pin that I always think of when I read about the "squiggle pins".
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Post by mallorypike on Jan 28, 2014 16:06:58 GMT -5
Hello, Mallory is one of my favorite books ever. It was actually one of the first ten BSC books I've ever owned. Mallory acted like a real eleven year old for once. She wasn't so whiny. She just simply stated that her parents wouldn't let her pierce her ears and that she had to get braces. No mention of nose jobs or sparkly stuff. That was nice. I felt bad for Mallory before she met Jessi. She seemed lonely at school. I liked it when she met Jessi at her house before taking the test. (I remember wanting Becca's bubble maker thing, it sounded so cool . In this book, didn't Jessi say she was going to get braces too? I wondered why that never happened. Oh, well. I guess I shouldn't be surprised-it's the BSC, after all! Kristy, Mary Anne, Claudia, and Dawn are b*tches! I know they are older and more experienced than Mallory but they shouldn't act like a know-it-all. I never ever heard of creeping and babies teeth at different ages. Plus, the test they made Mallory take was dumb. I had to laugh when Claudia mispronounced 'digestive' wrong, though! Claudia really is dumb-an eleven year old outsmarted her I love how in Chapter Three, Mallory made false assumptions describing the girls. It was hilarious when she thought,"Kristy's mom probably didn't let her wear makeup because her face is always so plain." Plus, when she thought,"I don't what Dawn was before she became treasury, maybe she was just another sitter." Poor Dawn! ;D Overall, I really, really like this book. I'd give it five stars.
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Post by ashley868 on Jan 30, 2014 23:15:25 GMT -5
I really liked this book as well, but then again I liked all of the first books for the girls. I wish they could have kept the personalities the girls had in the earlier books. Mallory definitely wasn't as whiny or as insecure then. Maybe it was because she didn't hang out with older girls before, and now that she is friends with such 'mature and cool' 13 year olds she feels insecure. I guess hanging out with Claudia and Stacey who lets face it are sophisticated would be hard. There was a part in it that made me laugh. Claudia mentioned that they didn't feed the baby soy sauce and Mallory responded with something like "Well I should hope not! It's soy milk, not soy sauce." I also like that it was Mallory's decision that Jessi join the club instead of just the girls inviting her later on. I really wish Mallory could have stayed the same girl she was in this book throughout the rest of the series.
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Post by mallorypike on Jan 31, 2014 13:35:06 GMT -5
^ I also liked the first books for all the girls, too. I don't blame Mallory for being insecure since she was friends with Supermodels of the U.S.A. Plus, she was at that age where she thinks she was ugly and all that. When I was 11-12 years old, I thought I was extremely fat and ugly when, in reality, I wasn't.
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Post by ashley868 on Feb 1, 2014 22:13:14 GMT -5
Oh I am not saying I blame her at all. I was insecure about my looks a lot longer than Mallory was since I was harassed about it constantly by people. All through High School I was humiliated constantly by the same people a combination of guys and girls almost everyday.
I just meant that in Hello Mallory she wasn't as whiny as she was in the later series. She just seemed more confident in Hello Mallory then she was later on.
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Post by mallorypike on Feb 1, 2014 22:42:42 GMT -5
^ Oh. I understand now. Sorry, I misinterpreted your post.
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Post by ashley868 on Feb 1, 2014 22:59:23 GMT -5
It's fine, I can understand how you misinterpreted because I re-read it. I was trying to be sarcastic about how Stacey and Claudia are described while I was writing my reply.
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Post by sparklymouse on Feb 3, 2014 15:46:36 GMT -5
I think Mal was so lonely before the club that her fear of going back to that turned her into that insecure person.
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Post by wenonah4th on Feb 5, 2014 17:50:33 GMT -5
interesting viewpoint, sparkly.
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Post by mallorypike on Feb 5, 2014 19:10:56 GMT -5
I think Mal was so lonely before the club that her fear of going back to that turned her into that insecure person. That's an interesting perspective, sparklymouse. It's something to think about and it's definitely possible. I never thought of that.
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Post by wenonah4th on Feb 6, 2014 14:01:44 GMT -5
And she wants to be seen as older, even beginning in #8.
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Post by mallorypike on Feb 6, 2014 16:24:39 GMT -5
I will never forget how Mallory wanted to impress the older girls so much in Claudia and Mean Janine. When she got to help out the BSC in their playgroup, Mal were walking the kids to the playgroup and she told the BSC how she taught them how to cross the street. She seemed so proud of herself. And she wanted to be seen as older. She seemed so *young* in the earlier books, it's hard to believe that only a year (if you pretend it's a "year", that is) later she acted more like a mini-adult. In this book, though, she seems age-appropriate.
Did anybody else notice that Mallory had recess in this book? In one chapter, she was at recess and she was describing this tree she goes up to just to think. I don't think in the later books, Mal and Jessi had recess, if I'm not mistaken.
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