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Post by candykane on Jan 15, 2014 22:29:15 GMT -5
^ Yeah, I wondered that too. It should have been Jamie instead of Jenny!
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Post by booboobrewer on Jan 16, 2014 0:13:45 GMT -5
Aww, cute. I like her purple pants and black boots. Every time I see that cover, I remember being so shocked as a kid that Mary Anne's stomach was showing
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msstock87
Sitting For The Braddocks
Here Comes The Bride!
Created by Rie.
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Post by msstock87 on Jan 16, 2014 0:17:17 GMT -5
I don't get why Claudia was with Jenny either, it should have been Jamie. I loved it when Claudia sat for him.
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Post by zoar3 on Jan 16, 2014 0:28:33 GMT -5
^In the first few books, especially in the truth about Stacey, (I still get so sad and want to hug Jamie when he is crying with Louie because he is upset both about Lucy and possibly never seeing Kristy or the BSC again), Jamie was closer to Kristy. Didn't Kristy tell Stacey or another BSC member that Jamie had spent the night at her house once before? This was in relation to the Newtons needing somewhere for Jamie to stay while both his parents were at the hospital. Then, maybe because Kristy's own siblings became more of a focus in her books, Claudia was said to be closest to Jamie. I think one of my favorite Claudia/Jamie besides the one I'll read tonight in Kristy and the Haunted Mansion (Jamie sings Over the Rainbow) is in Kristy and the Mother's Day surprise when he sings, "Give me a comb." So funny and cute. I love Jamie, he will always be my very favorite charge for how real he comes across and as I've said he does make me think of a few preschoolers I came to love when I was teaching.
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supprazz
Sitting For The Newtons
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Post by supprazz on Jan 16, 2014 8:23:25 GMT -5
Even Claudia and Rosie would have been cute, but she was not a charge who came by often. Jamie would have been perfect, with Jenny going to Mary Anne
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Post by sparklymouse on Jan 16, 2014 20:03:51 GMT -5
I think the doll's face looks like a young Janet Jackson.
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Amalia
Sitting For The Braddocks
Her Original Point of View
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Post by Amalia on Jan 16, 2014 20:56:15 GMT -5
The doll looks like Jasmin from Aladdin but dressed up in a hostess outfit.
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Post by zoar3 on May 9, 2014 14:31:50 GMT -5
I had hoped this would have magically gotten better but it didn't. The Kormans diaper hats were sort of funny, the idea sure was, but I wish the Delaney's hadn't moved--much more interesting to me to read about. MA tells us in this book that she baby-sat for the Delaneys in the past. I only remember Kristy, Stacey, and Mal sitting for them. I know a lot of you don't like Logan, but I will always wish he and MA had stayed together and at a happier and healthier (non clinging or not communicating) place. I did think Logan was very sweet to admit to MA that Cokie was not a replacement for MA and that he didn't realize until (near the end of the book) a month or so later that Cokie truly did like him very much and that he had led her on. Not a big Cokie fan but I do hope Logan somehow told her that, too. One thing I did notice and made the Korman subplot a little better was that Kristy, MA, and Dawn all sat for them. Often times in one client stories its always the same sitter, so a little variety was nice.
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Post by claudiaslastringding on May 10, 2014 1:57:16 GMT -5
I've actually never read this one, but I always thought it was strange, even as a kid, that Mary Anne never got to narrate a book in between this one and #41. It would have been nice to read a Mary Anne book where she wasn't with Logan, but wasn't yet regretting ending their relationship either.
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Post by zoar3 on May 10, 2014 9:38:29 GMT -5
^Great idea, Claudiaslastringding. I think such a book would have shown us a little about what MA was going through and could have been very helpful to readers feeling overwhelmed by changes in their lives and just growing up, too. We are only told of Dr. Reese the therapist MA has seen during this time when MA tells Claudia in "Claudia and the Perfect Boy," that she did see her and then in "MA and the Memory Garden," we do read about MA going. During this time, never once did Logan or any of the BSC girls, even "us" really get to try and listen/be supportive of MA and that always made me sad, I mean that at least to our knowledge MA never did feel comfortable sharing with anyone. I know it was said that when MA's English grades began to slip, a SMS counselor, helped her talk to Richard and that was how they found Dr. Reese. Even fictional, though very real to all of us, , what matters is MA did begin to feel better.
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Post by greer on May 10, 2014 11:13:10 GMT -5
I know that not everyone likes FF, but Mary Anne's books there deal a lot with finding her voice outside of her relationship with Logan and MA's and Richard's relationship. Outside of the silly boy drama between Stacey and Claudia, there is some good stuff in there.
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Post by virgoscorpio on May 28, 2014 13:35:29 GMT -5
I've actually never read this one, but I always thought it was strange, even as a kid, that Mary Anne never got to narrate a book in between this one and #41. I'm just curious as to why you thought that was strange, seeing as a sitter narrating a book between 41-46 is uncommon, usually they have to wait a full rotation (7 sitters; although there are some exceptions). So 5 books is nothing. I remember getting pissed when Mary Anne had Memory Garden and nothing until Little Princess (9 books apart). Claudia, on the other hand, was like Mary Anne in this case as she got books 97 and 101. Now onto the book! I wish Cokie was featured as a main secondary character in more books. I liked reading about her house. I thought it was interesting how Mary Anne made the observation that Cokie looked like she didn't belong in her own house.
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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 28, 2014 18:35:44 GMT -5
^I interpreted her/his post as being surprised Mary Anne didn't get at least one book where she and Logan were broken up, instead of breaking up in one book and getting back together in Mary Anne's very next book. They could have stretched the break up story arc further.
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Post by virgoscorpio on May 28, 2014 19:46:32 GMT -5
Ohh okay. Now it makes more sense. Thanks!
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Post by claudiaslastringding on May 30, 2014 10:35:26 GMT -5
^I interpreted her/his post as being surprised Mary Anne didn't get at least one book where she and Logan were broken up, instead of breaking up in one book and getting back together in Mary Anne's very next book. They could have stretched the break up story arc further. Yep, this is exactly what I meant. I always felt that Mary Anne should have narrated a book when she and Logan were broken up, and it seemed like 5 books was a very short space of time for them to be apart. So maybe it should have been like #41 they break up, #46-48 or so Mary Anne narrates another book, then in the #50s they could get back together.
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