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Post by aln1982 on Mar 19, 2008 19:18:31 GMT -5
^ That is cute. ;D What book is it from?
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Post by booboobrewer on Mar 19, 2008 19:58:17 GMT -5
Karen's Campout
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Post by lyricalangel on Mar 19, 2008 21:08:54 GMT -5
^It is really cute. I haven't read that book.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2008 12:10:32 GMT -5
i don't like this book. it doesn't do much for me... and it's boring in the process. i also remembered it really bugged me than in the spanish cover for this book, MA had blue eyes. and pigtails, when the book outright states that era is gone.
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Post by Amalia on Mar 21, 2008 5:24:37 GMT -5
^ That's what I assumed she meant, too, but am not sure. ;D I think that Logan's attitude was probably because he was preoccupied (like he said) but jealousy is an interesting theory. I just wondered if it was based on some particular scene. ^ I forget. I'm sorry about not giving you a better answer than that but Karen Brewer is probably right.
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Post by ashley868 on Apr 10, 2008 17:05:47 GMT -5
What annoyed me was that Kerry's family hadn't realized Tigger wasn't there. I think it was said that Tigger was only eight weeks old in the book wasn't it? I've had cats my whole life because we've always taken in kittens. We would take them in from the streets at a young age and raise them a bit so they'd be used to people and then find them a home. We've also had cats that had kittens. Kittens cry a lot in my experience with them, especially ones that are recently separated from their mothers. I had a ten week old kitten once that cried at night for a couple weeks straight. Even when we made a warm bed for him with a hot water bag and put in a ticking clock so the kitten would be comforted from a 'heart beat' and warm bag. So Tigger being eight weeks old probably would have cried out a bit for his mother. Especially when he had to be confined to a box like that. I know kittens have high pitched mews, I've heard them from when I was in an upstairs bedroom and they were in the basement where one of our cats had had a litter. It just seems unlikely that no one would have hard Tigger mew and he likely did mew when he was so young. I was probably eleven or twelve when I read this book and I thought about that. I actually liked the story myself because I love cats and if one of the full time cats we had (meaning one of the ones we kept full time and not the ones we adopted then gave away) went missing I would have been devastated. I moved out on my own so we don't do the adopt a kitten thing anymore, but I do have a cat I've had since the day he was born and another cat who I bought from a pet store and I'd be devastated if something happened to one of them. Especially Scrappy who is five, he is the one who I was allowed to keep after one of our cats gave birth to him. I've had him his whole life. So thats why I like the book, because I can relate to feeling devastated like Mary-Anne did. I just found it a bit unrealistic that no one knew about Tigger until later when I think it was Hunter that found him but kept it secret until Mary-Anne wanted to know why he was sneezing so much, so he showed her. He was allergic to everything as I re-call.
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Post by candykane on Apr 11, 2008 14:13:53 GMT -5
Tigger mewing a lot is something I've never thought about but I think you are right. My sister and her family took in a stray cat a couple years ago that ended up having kittens. So they had a big basket o' kittens in their garage for a few weeks until they could find homes for them, and the kittens were mewing constantly. If you picked one up, it would start crying until you held it up to your chest to hear your heartbeat. So if Kerry was in her room playing with Tigger you'd think one of the other Brunos would have heard something. Although Logan does say in the book that Kerry is a "champion sneak" and that she "could hide a whale in the house" without them knowing about it. Also, where was Tigger going to the bathroom for those five days he was with Kerry? Not in the closet, I hope.
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Post by Amalia on Apr 11, 2008 22:41:07 GMT -5
And if it didn't mew, it might have been scratching the box or the door, if it got out. And someone could have heard that right? And I agree, I didn't like how "champion sneak" just explained everything away.
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Post by candykane on Aug 29, 2008 8:11:55 GMT -5
Does anyone remember the awkward conversation Mary Anne and Logan were having as they sat out on the Spier's front porch? I always thought that was kind of funny, and realistic for two 13-year-olds. They'd say a few things, then have these long silences. It was something I could see happening to me.
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Post by sparklymouse on Aug 30, 2008 14:59:27 GMT -5
^I used to think Mary Anne and Logan jumped right into old married couple mode, but I guess they did have some real moments. He couldn't even say the word "girlfriend" in Mary Anne's Bad-Luck Mystery.
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Post by booboobrewer on Aug 30, 2008 22:59:40 GMT -5
You know, I always was so used to their old married couple routine as well that the times when they're awkward around each other jump out at me. I like that scene in Search for Tigger.
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Post by Penny Lane on Sept 18, 2008 19:12:36 GMT -5
Logan was kind of a jerk though. Mary Anne should have dumped him at the end of this book. I definitely did not like the message that this book gave to young girls: "It's okay if your boyfriend is a jerk. It's just that he's under a lot of pressure. Just put up with it. When, in a few year, he starts beating you, it will be okay."
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Post by icequeen on Oct 4, 2008 5:01:18 GMT -5
^lol. At least they corrected that when Mary Anne broke up with Logan for being too overbearing etc... Mary Anne came across as independent and strong in Mary Anne VS Logan (Well eventually she did), and didn't define herself as being "anyone's girl" (actually she may have said that in Mary Anne misses Logan, but same topic). And I have read a fan fic about Mary Anne being in a physically abusing relationship, and I just don't think she would be that type of person, as shy and sensitive as she is, I couldnt see her putting up with it.
I agree that its stupid no one discovered Tigger in Kerry's closet. This is actually one of my least faves.
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Post by bsclover18 on Oct 4, 2008 15:11:44 GMT -5
I know. BUT, I do love the cheesy romance between MA and Logan in this book.
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Post by sparklymouse on Oct 4, 2008 15:47:54 GMT -5
If Tigger was young enough (which I don't think he was), then I think it would be possible to hide him for a little bit. I got my current cats when they were very young and they were awake maybe five hours a day. Probably not even that much, and not all in one chunk either. They also went to the bathroom like every hour. Good luck with that in your closet, Kerry!
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