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Post by hitzpink on Oct 2, 2007 19:49:26 GMT -5
I agree, Claire and Margo were definitely used to Mallory playing with them all the time, so it must have come as quite a shock to them when she said no. A couple of years ago when I was super busy with school and work I tried to make a schedule for myself like the one Mallory makes in this book... I also forgot to include time to relax, and my schedule didn't last more than a week!
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Post by Kylie90210 on Oct 2, 2007 21:14:12 GMT -5
I found Claire and Margo being quite unreasonable in this book... from what it seems like in the other books, Mal never plays with them anyway, just looks after them. But they are just kids.
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Post by aln1982 on Oct 2, 2007 23:13:07 GMT -5
I think it was more Claire and Margo feeling rejected than anything. After all, 5 and 7 year olds can't really relate to deadline pressures ;D I don't think they expected Mallory to really do anything except be nice to them like she usually was and felt unwanted.
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Post by blossom114 on Oct 19, 2007 15:56:08 GMT -5
Okay I was just looking over the cover of the book. I have some things to say. WTF is up with those pants Mal is wearing? Jessi looks like she's got a big ole chest...she's eleven...and a dancer... that doesn't measure up... especially the dancer part. Oh yeah, I asked my friend how old she thought mallory was on the cover...she said 15... um... I'd say at least 25. Since when is Nicky blonde? Where is Nicky's other leg??? Dawn and Claire look cute so I wont mention that. Dawn actually almost looks young enough to be 13. Some comments on the inside. Since when does Vanessa not wear glasses? (it's mentiond that only nicky and mallory wear glasses) Mal has brown hair again. of course on the cover it's red....
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Post by macca on Oct 19, 2007 16:17:42 GMT -5
^ yeah I never understood why Mallory's hair was occasionally brown. Wasn't she supposed to be the dorky redhead Also, the girls always looked in their mid 20s on the BSC covers, so no surprises there
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Post by blossom114 on Oct 19, 2007 16:55:22 GMT -5
hehe i know, but my friend never read the BSC books, so it's my goal to get her hooked. I'm so evil... i introducing her to the snarkishness of it all
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Post by aln1982 on Oct 19, 2007 19:30:39 GMT -5
That cover is a bad one, except I like the raking scene (puts me in a fall mood ;D) The characters never look how they are supposed to but isn't Mal described most of the time as having reddish brown hair? Of course, who knows with all the inconsistencies. ;D
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Post by macca on Oct 20, 2007 6:36:09 GMT -5
^ in Hello Mallory, all the Pikes (including Mallory) apparently have "chestnut" brown hair
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Post by liss31d on Oct 20, 2007 7:13:52 GMT -5
I still felt bad for Mallory though... I know Claire and Margo are too little to understand, but Mallory does so much for them, like having Teddy Bears Picnics, etc... It just seems unfair that for once when she has to work they're really horrible to her.
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Post by aln1982 on Dec 14, 2007 1:34:49 GMT -5
I always read this book when I feel overwhelmed or pressed for time and it makes me feel better. Anyone else do this? Like I’ve said before, I don’t see the demands on Mallory as excessive or new but just think they seemed magnified because she felt so rushed and overwhelmed. I get this all of the time – like now getting ready for Christmas. ;D This time, I saw the similarity between the Young Author program in this one and the one I was in as a kid in elementary school. Anyone else have that program in Feb. or March where you wrote stories and they got judged and the winners got to go to a special program? I think they discontinued the program now or at least changed it. I loved the memories this book brought back of elementary days when I made this connection. ;D
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Post by sarish on Dec 14, 2007 8:33:49 GMT -5
I honestly think that Mallory blew things out of proportion. Not that her mom and dad never expected a lot out of her. But as aln1982 was saying, when you feel pressure from a project and you are overwhelmed it feels as though everyone is out to get you. Everyone is trying to make it their personal goal to sabotage your efforts to finish your project. When all she needed to do in the first place was tell her mom and dad about the project and they would have understood and made sure she had time to work on it. It seemed like a lot to the reader, because it focused primarily on Mallory and her hard time at home. I think Mr. and Mrs. Pike does a lot for the family and we just don't see it since Mrs. Pike is not a member of the BSC.
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Post by aln1982 on Dec 14, 2007 8:47:38 GMT -5
^ You would have to do a lot having eight kids. ;D I can totally relate to blowing things out of proportion as I tend to get so mad when someone asks me to do the littlest thing when I'm working on a project. This book always helps me see how I must look (except I'm a hundred times worse ;D) "Mean Old Mallory" is kind of mean but it makes me get perspective on things. ;D
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Dec 14, 2007 20:42:21 GMT -5
This time, I saw the similarity between the Young Author program in this one and the one I was in as a kid in elementary school. Anyone else have that program in Feb. or March where you wrote stories and they got judged and the winners got to go to a special program? I think they discontinued the program now or at least changed it. I loved the memories this book brought back of elementary days when I made this connection. ;D Yeah, we had a program like that in grade school ;D. This book also brought back memories of those for me. When I was young, it was called the, "Young Author's Conference". You went on a Saturday morning to some random school (it may have been a high school, I don't remember) with your story (my 2nd grade teacher ran our school's portion of the program and she gave us blank white books to write our stories in) and you read it aloud in a classroom filled with a small group of kids in your age group and their parents. There were also a few other activities there too, like author signings and such (there was a man there dressed like Mark Twain and he signed everyone's stories lol) I still have the stories I wrote for those on a shelf in my room . We didn't have any awards for Best Overall Fiction or anything like that (*cough* Mal *cough* ) but it was a lot of fun for me. I wonder what happpened to that program or if they even have it anymore.
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Post by aln1982 on Dec 15, 2007 0:18:42 GMT -5
^ Ours was a little different but similar. We did have awards and worked on our story for weeks - even a month or more - in class and at home. I remember it being a lot of work but fun. ;D
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Post by Penny Lane on Dec 15, 2007 3:06:46 GMT -5
We had Young Authors day too. Everyone wrote a "book" and we would turn it in, and they would be bound 'professionally' and then displayed and judged. I won an Honorably Mention once, which was pretty cool. The winners would get to go to a special lunch with an author. I don't remember any of the names, I was usually too busy being mad about the project -- I would write the story, but they always wanted us to illustrate it, and i have always been terrible at art. Doodling is one thing, but trying to draw pictures, under a deadline -- I'd usually stress myself out so much that nothing would get done. Thats why I got an "Honorable Mention" (fourth place), instead of winning, I think. I think that was the year I just skipped the illustrations all together. One year, our teacher made us write non-fiction, and I kind of hated that too. At least that meant I could put photos instead of drawings. I still have them, somewhere.
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