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Post by greer on Aug 24, 2008 18:34:38 GMT -5
my british neighbors growing up had tea between lunch and dinner, but it consisted of beans on toast.
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Amalia
Sitting For The Braddocks
Her Original Point of View
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Post by Amalia on May 28, 2009 23:30:29 GMT -5
I pretty much agree with what everyone else had to say. But I just didn't get why Abby and Claudia were fighting. It seemed more about Kristy versus Claud, Abby & Dawn. And I didn't know why Mal & Jessi weren't involved in the fight more. I didn't like Dawn in this one. Her dialogue sucked. I don't know what I expected. As for the yard sale, if they took a lot of stuff animals from their charges how come a lot of their charges were the ones that bought them? It just seemed weird to me. And how come so many kids donated? And how, in chapter 2, did Victoria just all of a sudden drop into Logan & Mary Anne's midst?
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Post by zoar3 on Dec 1, 2009 20:58:54 GMT -5
One of the most humorous parts of this one was during Vicki's goodbye party. On Page 119.
Mal: "Are you sure this is Coca- Cola?" Mallory eyed the pticher suspiciously.
"Positive," Abby answered. "I just asked Miss Rutherford."
Did Mal think the Kents were trying to poison her?!
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Post by sparklymouse on Feb 16, 2010 13:59:15 GMT -5
Four hundred dollars to go to Europe for 9 days...sigh. They made $500 selling crusty old stuffed animals to a bunch of kids who could have just traded with each other for free if they had thought about it. Gotta love Stoneybrook money.
I liked the realism of the 6th graders not being considered and Mallory being pissed off about it. Jessi, I don't even remember her speaking in the whole book. The chapter with the huge group interviews being held in a place where they could all hear each other through the walls was awkwardly funny. I think the idea of the whole club applying for a limited number of positions was cool. Of course they had to take the easy way out and have some of them be unavailable for the entire time span. I would love to read about all of them on equal playing fields and see who would get picked that way.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Mar 25, 2011 16:37:49 GMT -5
I thought that the beginning of this book was really chopped up. It didn't read well. The first few chapters had nothing to do with the rest of the book and could have essentially been left out. The fight wasn't even a big fight, and it was solved in a page or so. Really big lead up but really quick resolution (like always in BSC land).
Who is the third girl in the middle on the cover? I am assuming Karen and Victoria are the other two. Is that Maria Kilbourne? Hannie (doesn't look much like Hannie). So my guess is Maria...
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Post by zoar3 on Aug 20, 2011 18:00:23 GMT -5
It was nice to see "Mrs. Simon" from "Dawn and the Big Sleepover. She was "Ms. Simon" (despite being married) back then. I wonder if she is mother to Brad Simon the boy who sold fake math study guides? At the end of this book, it says he was suspended for cheating and couldn't work at the playground so maybe the ghostie was trying to make us think this was the same summer after "Abby's Lucky Thirteen?" I still don't believe that there would not have been a sign saying something like "If you want to go to Europe and are accepted/qualified for the trip, please don't apply for a job at the playground." Surely one SMS staff member would have thought of that. Editing to add, I finished reading and Kristy finds out from Mrs. Simon that the trip would not automatically disqualify any applicant yet that was exactly the result at the end. Back to the "saga" that is MA and D, I already posted in the sexual references thread. From this book: Page 30. "If she can go, I'll go, too." Dawn hadn't even arrived in CT and already MA's happiness or at least opportunity of a lifetime trip is being determined by her stepsister. I really wish either MA or Dawn, don't care which, had NOT been hired for the camp. If MA, I wonder if she'd have changed her mind about Europe? "Of course, MA orders "eggplant casserole" at Cabbages and Kings on the trip home from the airport. Actually, so does Claudia. All right, in this instance Dawn had just emerged from a 5-6 hour flight but you know what I mean; enough! I wish Jeff would have said he wanted to get pizza, go to McDonald's anything! Speaking of Jeff, as someone else said upthread, he never came to CT without Dawn did he? Sort of related, but it was too bad neither Sharon or Richard commented on Gracie. Dawn said she was sorry to leave the newborn. I wonder if she and MA had any second thoughts (MA Too Many Babies) of pressuring S and R to have a kid together? ITA that Victoria did seem to drop in on MA and Logan from the sky in chapter one.
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Post by wiggir13 on Aug 20, 2011 22:56:24 GMT -5
Ugh - another Dawn/MA saga. This book was just completely boring. I didn't think there was a real plot at all except to set up the super special. I wanted a big bruhaha on the playground!
I thought it was pretty realistic for the girls to play to strengths in the interview...isn't that what we all do?
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Post by zoar3 on Aug 21, 2011 18:46:36 GMT -5
I'm not sure if this was Ghostie mistake or if Diane Molleson really meant it. MA tells us that Richard has a new van. Didn't Sharon get a new Outback in "Christmas Chiller?" Why would the family need two SUV's? The Pikes maybe. The Spiers, not so much.
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Post by wiggir13 on Aug 21, 2011 22:53:16 GMT -5
But SUV's are so good for the Environment.....Dawn would have approved right?
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Post by zoar3 on Aug 22, 2011 11:19:48 GMT -5
Definitely and she'd be right ! I have never lived in snow country so don't know anything about vehicles that do good in it. That is the only reason for the Outback I can think of. To me a "van" sounds like a van! Anything from hippie to panelled to a Blazer type vehicle.
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Post by booboobrewer on Jan 16, 2012 22:41:02 GMT -5
This will be a long post, because I really enjoyed re-reading this one! I think I only read it once before and forgot everything about it, and this time around I was laughing out loud at certain parts. I loved the beginning--Mary Anne in the classroom wishing she could be outside, daydreaming about vacation, and then later sitting by the lighthouse. Very nice, summery feel. I really did like reading about all the applying/interviewing for jobs...so much more of a process and true to life than just getting calls from their regular neighborhood clients. Mary Anne's interviewer, Mr. De Young, emphasized sports a lot in her interview, and Mary Anne thinks she blew the interview afterwards...but in the end she did get the job, so...? Maybe Mrs. Simon put in a good word for her like the other interviewer did for Cokie? I think the stuffed animal sale was a really cute idea, but yeah...can't believe they made so much money. Dawn's gifts from the BSC sounded awesome--tie-dyed t-shirt, silver earrings, baseball cap, mango-kiwi juice, book of British ghost stories. See, this is why I wished the BSC was my real group of friends as a child These were the parts I found so funny... ...and they all involve Claudia. The girl never fails to amuse ;D
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Post by virgoscorpio on Jan 17, 2012 0:07:56 GMT -5
I'm not sure if this was Ghostie mistake or if Diane Molleson really meant it. MA tells us that Richard has a new van. Didn't Sharon get a new Outback in "Christmas Chiller?" Why would the family need two SUV's? The Pikes maybe. The Spiers, not so much. Omg, zoar! You noticed the outback reference in Chiller? Good for you! That totally sailed past me!
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Post by zoar3 on Jan 17, 2012 12:38:36 GMT -5
^I had too. It was the first, if only, time Sharon ever did anything other than pine for Dawn or put something (non food) in the freezer. It was also very refreshing to see the adults take charge and involve the sitter's parents.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Jan 17, 2012 15:55:28 GMT -5
I think I remember it more now. It was in one of the beginning chapters, right?
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Post by anzuhana on Aug 22, 2012 19:16:13 GMT -5
I wish all the girls chose to go to Europe, not just some of them. After all, it was only $400. If I was given the option of going to London and Paris for such a cheap price, I would have taken it, despite not being interested in visiting the two cities all that much (right now, the only places in Europe I'm interested in visiting are Stonehenge and Pompeii). And I would've liked to read about them being in Europe as well.
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