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Post by booboobrewer on Jan 20, 2013 20:48:55 GMT -5
Haha, I remember seeing "Mary Anne Goes Steady."
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Post by virgoscorpio on Jan 21, 2013 1:03:59 GMT -5
^ I like all of these titles better. Maybe it's the case of "you like what you don't know?" {or similar}
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celaeno
Sitting For The Papadakis's
I have to share a room with Vanessa
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Post by celaeno on Jan 21, 2013 11:53:24 GMT -5
I love hearing about the book-titles-that-never-were! There's a song called Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne that I start singing in my head whenever I hear this book's title, changing the lyrics to "Logan Likes Mary Anne", of course.
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Post by candykane on Sept 20, 2013 19:09:30 GMT -5
I read this one today. I'd forgotten how much I like this book. I love that this is their first time starting eighth grade and that it's such a big deal, unlike later in the series, when they had already "re-started" the school year multiple times and had to dance around the issue of the time warp. Anyway, I love their excitement about being the oldest kids in school and their excitement about school dances.
Chewy needs some serious training. My Lab had some crazy moments when he was young, but running away from us on the street, snatching a book bag, and stealing cones? Um, no. Obedience school, Perkinses!
Mary Anne's birthday is close to mine. My birthday is also late in September and I was one of the youngest kids in my class, so I always liked having that in common with her. I guess that means that when we first "met" Mary Anne in Kristy's Great Idea, she was only 11, right? I think the first scene in KGI took place during their first week of seventh grade, so she wouldn't have been 12 yet.
I liked the lunch scene when the club all sat together for the first time. It seemed like they were just bonding and becoming better friends, rather than being exclusive and clique-y. Too bad that didn't last long (thinking of their snobbery towards Ashley Wyeth two books later, and how Claudia's heart was pounding just thinking of the BSC's reaction to her sitting with someone else).
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Post by zoar3 on Sept 22, 2013 11:10:29 GMT -5
I finished this last night and it did read like a completely different BSC world. I loved how neighborly the book felt (Chewy scene) and that probably 75%+ of the story took place on Bradford Court. Of course, I also loved that Mimi and Louie were in it as was Jamie and his family, all my favorites. Poor Chewy, I still don't understand his cone escapades. If Claudia and Gabbie took him outside the Perkins yard (that was completely fenced in) to meet Myriah at the bus stop, I'm thinking they probably closed the gate (to the yard) before leaving. Unless it wasn't properly latched or Chewy jumped over it, I have never got how he managed to drag orange construction cone after cone into his backyard. Maybe a BSC mystery. Is there ever a mention on how old Chewy is? I don't think we ever get to see a picture of him. The other related to this scene thing that stood out for me was wow what a long day for Myriah. I don't know if she went to morning or afternoon K or how long the creative theater class as but it came across as though she was in some type of class for quite a number of hours. Mary Anne and Logan were both so cute and natural. I will always wish they had stayed together in this early sense. I also still want to read about Logan's baby-sitting job with the 4 Morgan boys and what guys he tried to recruit for associate BSC members. I think that sounded like a great idea and could have been very helpful later down the road with the events. I did have one new (I think) thought. It definitely sounded like MA and Logan had their hands full with Jackie. Neither had met his brothers before sitting for them as well. Not to mention the 4 Marshall boys. I know this was long before the days of two sitters for 4 or more kids but it seemed like that might have been helpful in this case.
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Post by candykane on Sept 22, 2013 13:42:06 GMT -5
Based on my own Lab, I imagine Chewy to be a little over a year old. By the time they're about a year and a half old, most all Labs are fully grown height and weight wise, and they always describe Chewy as being big. Labs also still have plenty of immature behavior and boundless energy at that age (which I don't miss, I much prefer my dog mellowed out!).
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Post by wenonah4th on Sept 25, 2013 10:17:12 GMT -5
which in turn would mean that they got Chewy not long before Mrs. Perkins got pregnant with Laura Beth
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starrynight
Sitting For The Kuhns
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Post by starrynight on Oct 13, 2013 11:33:22 GMT -5
Since this book represented the club's first foray into 8th grade, it also represented Mallory's first foray into 6th. I wonder why there was no mention of that? I know the focus was on Mary Anne and Logan, but you think they'd at least mention the fact that one of their charges was now attending the same school that they were!
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Post by zoar3 on Oct 13, 2013 15:58:13 GMT -5
^Wow, I never, ever, thought of that. And it wasn't like Mal hadn't been mentioned before because she even was a helper and in away (when the BSC members were ignoring the other kids in an effort to figure out how to handle Jenny) did more than the older girls at the play group in #7. If Mal had been mentioned, that would have been a wonderful time for one of the BSC girls to "remember" how helpful Mal was at Stacey's and realize she could have helped them out especially when things got crazier after the PTA advertising. Good idea, Starrynight.
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Post by Honeybee on Oct 13, 2013 19:24:13 GMT -5
I wish, I can find this book soon. Been such long time, since I read this book.
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Post by greer on Oct 14, 2013 18:42:07 GMT -5
I wish, I can find this book soon. Been such long time, since I read this book. You can get a kindle version for your phone or computer for pretty cheap
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msstock87
Sitting For The Braddocks
Here Comes The Bride!
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Post by msstock87 on Oct 24, 2013 21:03:58 GMT -5
I haven't read this book in a long time, but I feel like re reading it now.
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Post by Honeybee on Oct 26, 2013 14:49:28 GMT -5
I wish, I can find this book soon. Been such long time, since I read this book. You can get a kindle version for your phone or computer for pretty cheap I'm not a kindle person. I found Logan like Mary Anne at book sale.
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Post by Honeybee on Feb 14, 2014 22:51:00 GMT -5
So, I finished reading this book. Been long time, since, I read the book. I read it one or twice, when I was in my early teens. I enjoy reading this book. I'm shy person. But, I wouldn't run out, if someone gave me a surprise Birthday party. I did had a surprise Birthday party, when I was 10. But, didn't work out. Cause, few of the guests, didn't show up until, were handing out the goodies for the kids. But, I did had fun at my 10th party. No one has really thrown me true surprise Birthday party for me. That, I was completely surprise about it. Cause, I think, I knew my 10th Birthday surprise party. I just don't remember, the detail of my 10 birthday party. I knew we played a game, outside. Since, my Birthday is in August. I was wearing this jumper dress/ Looks like a dress, but have shorts underneath. It had flowers on it, I believe. It was one of my favorite outfits. It's sorta of like this. But, it had design on it. It was cotton. it wasn't jean look.
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Post by zoar3 on Feb 14, 2014 22:57:53 GMT -5
That sounds cute Buttercup with the flowers and reminds me of Karen's shorts on the cover of Karen's New Holiday. And what a great choice for a BSC book to read today, too. I haven't read this one in ages either and will this weekend. P.S. of sorts I'm glad your 10th birthday party was happy. I don't think I ever had a surprise party either. I do have the good memory of throwing a surprise of sorts birthday party for my Grandma.
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