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Post by sugarfrostedflake on Feb 3, 2012 18:33:18 GMT -5
Yeah, zoar Asking those kinds of things just makes your brain hurt. I seem to remember Logan saying Kerry kept complaining of stomachaches because of not wanting to go to school so he noticed but couldn't/didn't really do anything about it. Re: Mrs. Bruno working - I believe anzuhana was referring to the part in MATtR where Mrs. Bruno says that she'll repay the deposit Mr. Bruno'ed already paid for Logan to go to that out-of-state school out of her earnings because she likes having Logan around. (I don't know what she did - if anything - to earn money though. I just kinda thought she was a SAHM and would somehow find a way to charge for that. Or maybe she was just joking and couldn't pay for it out of her earnings of nothing as a SAHM but that she'd find a way to pay because she likes having her son at home.) virgoscorpio, I'd think Becca and Charlotte would be good candidates to be Kerry's friends.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Mar 17, 2012 16:38:50 GMT -5
This is probably not going to be the most popular comment, but when I re-read this again recently I really saw more of Logan's perspective. I don't think he's given as much credit. He is, after all, just a 13-year-old boy. I didn't really realize just how much stress *he* might be under too. With the stresses from sports and the coach, feeling like he has to live up to expectations of everyone to be a good athlete, has to deal with Mary Anne's stress about Tigger and home stress with Kerry and Hunter's allergies and what-not. I can see how he might be a bit detached whereas I didn't really pick up on it before. Plus, maybe Mary Anne's winging would get annoying after awhile (even though I like her).
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Post by zoar3 on Mar 17, 2012 16:57:12 GMT -5
^Thank you, Virgo! That's similar to my Logan-thoughts in "MA vs. Logan." I completely and utterly think he should have asked MA how he could help or let her know/remind her that he cared. However, it seemed like the bulk of anger was all MA dealing with what she was going through not about Logan at all. He was just convenient. I wish we had gotten to read about MA seeing Dr. Reese and even before she saw her, because it sounded like for a while (I know awhile in Stoneybrook can be up to many years) she was feeling down in the dumps and not sure how to go forward. Richard/MA would have been seen more and possibly even *gasp* the so-called friendship between MA and Kristy. IDK, maybe I'm just more of a Logan fan than I am MA, but I do think he often got a raw deal.
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Post by sparklymouse on Mar 19, 2012 17:27:01 GMT -5
I think you're giving Logan too much credit, virgoscorpio. In my mind he really was just preoccupied by his athletic failures. I pictured him being very put off over Mary Anne's "stupid" cat when he had a "real" crisis. The one thing I'll say in his defense is Mary Anne sucked at expressing herself and acted like everyone should be a mind reader.
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Post by zoar3 on Mar 19, 2012 17:44:29 GMT -5
^I agree Sparklymouse. In this book it totally seemed as if MA expected the world to stop because Tigger was missing. I did feel badly for her and worse for Tigger. I am glad he was safe at the Brunos'. Had my dog ever ran off I, too, would have been devastated and most likely flipped out a little. Maybe it was because the rest of the BSC minus Shannon immediately (and for the books duration) were "OMG, let me spend every second looking for Tigger" that MA felt more wronged by Logan. Communication was always lacking between them and in fact was one of their realistic early teen traits. Still, I'd think MA would have told him just to have another searcher and supporter. Oh well. I wonder if Logan was basically not part of the story in order to keep a degree of credibility about Kerry?
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Post by wiggir13 on Sept 24, 2012 20:30:51 GMT -5
Oh man. I really feel like this book is the first one that really solidified Logan and MA as an old married couple. At the end when they make up, Logan asks if the neighbors are watching. For some reason this always made me thin he wanted to make out with her or something.
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Post by supprazz on Sept 24, 2012 23:45:59 GMT -5
I have to really re-read the book to give my perspective this time, but I do remember being put off that Logan didn't seem very sorry about the cat being at his house and not being cognizant of her feelings, and Mary Anne also being irrational with the way she was mad at him when he had no idea tigger was there.
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Post by zoar3 on Sept 25, 2012 16:34:16 GMT -5
The only thing "good' about this book were the moments with Mary Anne and her dad looking for Tigger. We see so little of them together that it was nice how much Richard cared. I also agree with others that the Jamie scene was very cute. I still don't get why Edie, particularly living in a mansion, had to drive half an hour to her office to make copies (of the flier) but then maybe Ann wanted at least one consistency (in KGI Edie copies the BSC's ads at work) with the books she wrote.
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Post by wanderingfrog on Dec 3, 2012 16:54:48 GMT -5
I did read the rest of the thread and a couple of pages back, zoar quotes the part about Dawn trying to reassure the Barretts that there won't be a bunch of dognappings in Stoneybrook, but I think it gets even funnier when you include a couple more of the lines at the end of that section:
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Post by virgoscorpio on Dec 3, 2012 17:57:51 GMT -5
^ Oh, the irony!!!
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Post by Amalia on Jul 7, 2013 1:24:57 GMT -5
I still don't get why Edie, particularly living in a mansion, had to drive half an hour to her office to make copies (of the flier) but then maybe Ann wanted at least one consistency (in KGI Edie copies the BSC's ads at work) with the books she wrote. ^ And it said in Mary Anne & the Memory Garden that Watson had a home office (Kristy used it for her SADD headquarters) where it had a copier.
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Post by greer on Jul 8, 2013 19:12:58 GMT -5
I think Watson more fully equips his home office after his heart attack.
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Post by sparklymouse on Jul 8, 2013 19:42:49 GMT -5
Copiers were expensive and less common back then. I remember teachers used to copy worksheets out of their master workbooks for us to do and they'd be in blurry purple ink that was hard to read.
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Post by greer on Jul 8, 2013 20:36:56 GMT -5
Copiers were expensive and less common back then. I remember teachers used to copy worksheets out of their master workbooks for us to do and they'd be in blurry purple ink that was hard to read. That's mimeograph, not xerox. Kristy's mom's office has a xerox machine. Mimeograph machines are a special kind of printing press. But yeah, even someone who owned a mansion probably wouldn't have a copier in the 80s and I don't see the logic in him having one later on, either. You'd have to haul the copies back to the office!
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Post by sparklymouse on Jul 8, 2013 21:17:21 GMT -5
Well whatever it was called it was used because the teachers were only allotted a certain number of "good" expensive copies. I'm sure Elizabeth's place of work appreciated paying for crap.
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