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Post by sparklymouse on Oct 10, 2011 19:11:17 GMT -5
Lol, "false advertisement". I wish we had gotten the roller rink story too. Mallory probably would have wiped out a dozen times, and Jessi wouldn't have even tried because she wouldn't want to risk an ankle injury.
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Post by greer on Oct 11, 2011 18:14:00 GMT -5
I believe that the roller skating image was done for a calendar. Perhaps Hodges was sick that month and they decided it would be better to have an image that wasn't directly tied to the story than to interrupt the aesthetic flow by hiring a different artist.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Oct 11, 2011 19:44:46 GMT -5
Sick for a whole month!? ... he should have called Mallory to see what it was like! They could have been bed buddies!
Wait... that sounds a bit creepish!
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Post by supprazz on Oct 11, 2011 21:31:59 GMT -5
Maybe they thought of Mary Anne and the Brunettes
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Post by fairy3lf2 on Oct 11, 2011 23:59:28 GMT -5
I wonder, any other front cover books, don't mention the description of the front cover. I'll paid more attention, of more coming up books I'm reading. That sounds like a good topic for the General Series discussion. I'm going to start one right now.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Dec 4, 2011 2:03:32 GMT -5
This has got to be one of the most fun BSC covers! I can just imagine everyone looking at it for the first time and getting kind of excited, like, OMG MARY ANNE IS ALMOST FOLLOWING DOWNNN AND THEY'RE HAVING SO MUCH FUNNN! DON'T DROP HERRR! And, of course, the rink has PARTED WAYS for the famous BSC members so that they can fool around without ANYONE around them! But in the back you notice how crowded the place is, and this is only Stoneybrook, so where did all the people come from!?
This book was pretty good -- a good mix of boyfriend girlfriend/school issues/tertiary character devlopment, such as Cokie and Pete/ BSC stuff/sitting plot, in this case the Kormans. But what was annoying is that everything kept repeating itself in the sitting chapters. Even the food: hot-dogs.
I wonder if people complained that Logan and MA had broken up or if Scholastic was worried that fans would revolt or something, so they patched it up quickly.
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Post by celaeno on Jan 14, 2012 23:38:16 GMT -5
This book makes me realize how much I enjoyed the books written by AMM herself. She had a tendency to include little character details that ghostwriters skipped over. Like, in this one she mentions Mary Anne biting her nails, which was one of Mary Anne's little character quirks in the early books and which was then rarely mentioned as the series progressed.
Also, I'm starting to think that any book that has bra references is an AMM book. lol.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Jan 15, 2012 13:17:41 GMT -5
^ I agree. I think Lerangis would have skipped any mentioning of bra straps or body parts
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Post by celaeno on Jan 16, 2012 17:09:32 GMT -5
lol - I can't complain about the Toilet Monster subplot as much as other people can, because I went through a period of being afraid of the toilet when I was a kid (although I was definitely younger than Melody and Bill). My cousin had told me a story about a guy who died while he was going to the bathroom because a snake came out of the toilet and bit him, and so I went through this period of being terrified of snakes in the toilet. I would bolt out of the bathroom as fast as was humanly possible, convinced that snakes were going to propel themselves out of the toilet, torpedo-style, aiming right for me.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Jan 16, 2012 17:11:41 GMT -5
^ When I was little, I was afraid of the toilet, too, and of pools (but I got over my fear of both).
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Post by starrynight on Jan 16, 2012 17:13:48 GMT -5
lol - I can't complain about the Toilet Monster subplot as much as other people can, because I went through a period of being afraid of the toilet when I was a kid (although I was definitely younger than Melody and Bill). My cousin had told me a story about a guy who died while he was going to the bathroom because a snake came out of the toilet and bit him, and so I went through this period of being terrified of snakes in the toilet. I would bolt out of the bathroom as fast as was humanly possible, convinced that snakes were going to propel themselves out of the toilet, torpedo-style, aiming right for me. I've never really been afraid of toilets, but once I found out that King County (that's where Seattle is) has an entire phone line dedicated to complaints about rats in toilets, I've always made sure to look before I sit down.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Jan 16, 2012 17:22:03 GMT -5
^ Wow! There must really be a problem if there is a whole phone line (i.e. someone's job) dedicated to taking rat in toilet complaints. Would this be funded by the city or something?
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Post by anzuhana on Jan 16, 2012 17:39:30 GMT -5
I've never heard of rats in toilets. Though I remember watching some animal show, probably Untamed and Uncut on the Animal Planet channel, where a family saw a constrictor in their toilet. Somehow it had escaped from its cage in another apartment and used the pipes to get into that family's toilet. I believe the snake died in the pipes.
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Post by starrynight on Jan 16, 2012 19:11:46 GMT -5
^ Wow! There must really be a problem if there is a whole phone line (i.e. someone's job) dedicated to taking rat in toilet complaints. Would this be funded by the city or something? The Public Health Department takes care of those complaints.
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Post by booboobrewer on Jan 16, 2012 19:37:48 GMT -5
omg rats in toilets? I'm going to be looking a lot more now thanks to you guys hahaha.
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