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Post by anzuhana on Nov 23, 2013 16:00:07 GMT -5
Now that you mentioned that, virgoscorpio, I remember watching a show on the History Channel, I think, called Surviving The Holidays With Lewis Black. It's about surviving Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and Christmas. (Maybe Halloween was mentioned as well but I don't remember.) It seems like a good time to rewatch that. (I had also taped it.)
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Post by virgoscorpio on Nov 23, 2013 18:43:10 GMT -5
That sounds interesting!
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Post by anzuhana on Nov 23, 2013 19:03:54 GMT -5
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Post by candykane on Nov 23, 2013 20:08:32 GMT -5
What sticks out the most to me from this book is Charlotte's comment when they get to Polly's. "Christmas already? But we just had Thanksgiving!" Have times really changed so fast that a book written, what, 27 years ago, sounds absolutely quaint now? How I wish that was still the case! In 2013 anyone who doesn't start listening to Christmas music before the last week of November is considered a stick-in-the-mud, and if you wait into December at all for putting up decorations you're looked at like a pure nut. It does seem like everything Christmas starts earlier and earlier each year. Dish Network has had their Christmas music channels up and running for over a week now, and I feel like I've seen way more commercials related to Christmas shopping than I have for Thanksgiving.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Nov 23, 2013 23:21:54 GMT -5
Thanks! I will check it out!
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Post by anzuhana on Nov 24, 2013 9:45:50 GMT -5
Let me know what you think.
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Post by wenonah4th on Nov 25, 2013 14:29:59 GMT -5
I'm annoyed by it even though we have no tv hookup!
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Nov 25, 2013 19:18:45 GMT -5
Oh, that's right...Stacey takes Charlotte out five weeks before Christmas in this book, and that's too soon for holiday stuff in their minds.
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Post by wenonah4th on Nov 29, 2013 12:09:35 GMT -5
And I obviously agree!
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Post by ashley868 on Jan 3, 2014 14:09:37 GMT -5
I don't really find it too hard to believe that a candy store in a small town might be able to rival a big cities. In my experience with small towns, usually family owned restaurants or bakeries are always better. There was a pizza place I used to visit all the time because it was the best pizza I'd ever tasted. None of the pizza chains could live up to it. Unfortunatly the owner died though, and his family didn't want to keep it running. There is a bakery too, that I often visit. With family owned businesses I find it's usually quality over quantity. With any chains or popular places, they worry more about quantity.
I don't really find it too odd either that some of the kids felt depressed about their new baby-sitters. When I was in Kindergarten, I went every other day. So I was at the baby-sitters on my days off, and right after school. The one baby-sitter my mom had for a while didn't do anything with me. All she did was lay on the couch and watch soap operas and chain smoke. I wasn't allowed to leave the room either. I had to play while she watched TV and she would yell at me if I was too loud. I was a shy kid who got anxious with baby-sitters at first (although after a few minutes of crying, I'd calm down) and so with her, I was upset all the time. My teacher noticed that towards the end of the day, I'd start getting depressed and even start crying At first she thought there were problems at home until she talked to my parents, so my mom switched baby-sitters for me. So I can kind of understand that the kids might get moody if they aren't happy with their regular baby-sitter.
I liked this book as well. I actually liked all of the first books for the original sitters. It was nice seeing their point of views all for the first time.
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Post by Honeybee on Jan 3, 2014 15:04:20 GMT -5
We didn't have a baby-sitters, when I was growing up. Mostly my parents took my older sister & I, to places. Like grocery shopping, the mall, movies, or any other events. But, when my parents did have to go some where's for adults only. Mostly one of grand-parents will watch us or my older cousin Karen, will come over to baby sit us. But, not often.
That's my favorite part of the book, when Stacey & Charlotte goes to town, going to the candy store. The store was decorate for Christmas.
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Post by wenonah4th on Jan 7, 2014 11:51:24 GMT -5
Ashley, the pizza place in the town where we currently live is that way. There are chains around but I marvel that they stay in business because everyone goes to and orders from Stefano's. We'll be hard pressed to find anything as good as that when we've moved permanently!
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Post by mallorypike on Jan 7, 2014 13:30:06 GMT -5
You know, I always wondered what was the "truth" about Stacey. The title didn't really make sense because the babysitters already knew that Stacey had diabetes. They knew that she had to go to NYC for her doctors. So what was the "truth"?
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Post by Honeybee on Jan 7, 2014 20:27:27 GMT -5
^That what I was wondering. What's the truth with Stacey? The title didn't make sense at all.
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Post by Sideshowjazz1 on Jun 13, 2014 19:15:26 GMT -5
I'm surprised some of the kids the agency sit for didn't talk to their parents about neglectful sitters before Jamie and Charlotte mentioned it to Stacey. BTW, I think the title refers to the subplot. "The Truth About Stacey" is about her diabetes, but the story is more about the Babysitters' Agency.
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