Penny Lane
Sitting For The Arnolds
The Girl With Colitis Goes By
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Post by Penny Lane on Jun 23, 2008 22:07:13 GMT -5
Ahh, but there are exceptions to the phone rule. If a robber is suspected of robbing a house while you are in it, then you are permitted to use the telephone, as long as you speak in code.
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Post by wenonah4th on Dec 3, 2008 6:29:43 GMT -5
I suppose I should have read the last page of the thread, because I'm wondering how the code from #2 ended up in this thread....
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Post by zoar3 on May 20, 2010 21:57:52 GMT -5
I never realized The Pikes' have a Grand Piano! Was it ever mentioned again? I've read all the books many times now and admit this was the first time that note stood out for me.
Other thing is that on Page 19, Sharon says to Dawn :"Honey you may not believe this, but Jeff is going to miss us as much as we'll miss him. And as much as we miss your father." (Is Sharon admitting she misses Jack)?! Until this latest read, I never realized what a perfect book this would have been for any of the CT Schafers to question their move.
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celaeno
Sitting For The Papadakis's
I have to share a room with Vanessa
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Post by celaeno on May 31, 2010 20:34:42 GMT -5
I really liked this book...I know a lot of people can't stand Dawn, but I like her, and I really felt bad for her in this book. It was obviously extremely hard for her for her brother to want to move away. That can really change a person.
(One reason I might feel differently about Dawn from other people on the boards is because I'm not too familiar with the later books...maybe my opinion will change if I read some of them.)
Also, I know some people think it doesn't make sense for Dawn of all people to be ok with a pageant, but I didn't find it weird. People are contradictory all the time in real life. In a way, Dawn reminds me of a girl I knew when I was in high school. This girl was intellectual, extremely literate and well-read, very liberal and a feminist, but she was also really into cheerleading and she liked Disney princesses. (Just like Dawn, she was also from California and insisted she didn't want to get married until she was older, at least 30. Then she got married at like age 23.) So I don't find it odd that Dawn would be ok with pageants; it just adds another dimension to her personality.
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lilafowler
Sitting For The Johanssens
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Post by lilafowler on Jun 1, 2010 20:09:18 GMT -5
Yeah, I wouldn't expect Dawn (especially early-books, non-crazy Dawn) to get all psycho about a pageant. First of all, I don't see her as any more of a feminist than the other sitters (who are all a bit more bra-burny than would be average). Plus she was in that pageant as a baby, so she probably thinks something along the lines of "I turned out fine, they can't be that bad".
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Post by anzuhana on Jul 28, 2010 9:35:01 GMT -5
I would've liked to see Margo peel the banana with her feet. I'm happy that Jeff moved back to California since he was so unhappy in Connecticut.
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Post by candykane on Aug 27, 2010 10:46:19 GMT -5
I read this one for the first time in a very long time. I never had my own copy of this one, but I recently acquired one (thanks, Dad!) so I read it yesterday. I can definitely see how the "perfect Perkinses" thing got started because of this book. Is there anything Myriah and Gabbie can't do? Seriously, Myriah can do all different forms of dance as well as gymnastics, plus she and Gabbie can sing like professionals and memorize long songs. I know the Perkinses were based on Ann's real-life friends, but I have to wonder if the real Perkins girls were actually THAT gifted, because it's a tad unrealistic given their ages. Jeff annoyed me somewhat with his nonstop glee over going back to CA, so I had to keep reminding myself that he's only nine years old and that his behavior was typical of that. I always felt like Jeff was written more like an older kid in other books (like in SS #4) so maybe that was why he bugged here. I don't know how Dawn worked with Claire and Margo to get ready for the pageant without going completely crazy. Just the descriptions of it exhausted me! Margo's question at the pageant was "what would you like to see happen in the world in the year 2010?" I wish she'd have thought of an answer instead of just standing there since the girl ahead of her already used up the "world peace" answer for her question. It would have been interesting to hear Margo's answer, now that we're actually in 2010.
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starrynight
Sitting For The Kuhns
The Royal Diner of Pizza Express
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Post by starrynight on Aug 27, 2010 12:49:40 GMT -5
^ Holy cow, you're right! I'm pretty sure I thought we'd all have flying cars by now when I first read this book...
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Post by sparklymouse on Aug 27, 2010 13:48:25 GMT -5
That's a hard question to just throw out a year and expect a little girl under pressure to know how many years away it is. They should have specified 20 years from then, or just asked what life would be like when Margo was a grown up.
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Post by BuckinghamAlice on Sept 28, 2010 20:48:16 GMT -5
What I took away from this book is that Dawn's a hypocrite. She made such a big deal about how she wouldn't leave her mother, but she did. True, she was married by that point, but I do remember her saying "never."
Margo peeling bananas with her feet made me laugh. Gross, but something I could imagine a kid trying to do.
I felt bad for Charlotte as well. All the other girls were a little annoying.
I did rather enjoy this one though.
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Post by booboobrewer on Sept 28, 2010 22:01:38 GMT -5
Margo's question at the pageant was "what would you like to see happen in the world in the year 2010?" I wish she'd have thought of an answer instead of just standing there since the girl ahead of her already used up the "world peace" answer for her question. It would have been interesting to hear Margo's answer, now that we're actually in 2010. That makes me feel so old As a kid 2010 seemed like a lifetime away...
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Post by wenonah4th on Oct 15, 2010 13:54:27 GMT -5
2000 seemed unimaginable when I first was informed (in kindergarten) that we were the Class of 2000. Imagine 2010!
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Post by zoar3 on Oct 15, 2010 16:37:06 GMT -5
The Jetson's were supposed to be the family of 2000. I loved that cartoon as a kid. Other than that, I don't think I even really gave much thought to the changing of centuries.
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Post by wenonah4th on Dec 16, 2010 14:02:25 GMT -5
That's so funny! I wasn't aware of that, but then again I seldomw atched any cartoons.
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Post by zoar3 on Dec 16, 2010 18:29:23 GMT -5
I just Googled and apparently The Jetsons were supposed to be the family of 2062. Sorry about that. So, lol, perhaps within 52 years car will fly.
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