u4me
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Post by u4me on May 19, 2011 18:43:13 GMT -5
I haven't read this book. Did Stacy set her mom up with anyone else in this book, or is she just a matchmaker for setting her up with this John guy?
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Post by zoar3 on May 19, 2011 22:16:40 GMT -5
I think in a FF book, Stacey and Claudia watched videos from a dating service trying to find the perfect guy for Maureen. I don't think before this book she had ever tried to play matchmaker. Now, I'm trying to think if there were any other single dad's in Stoneybrook besides Franklin DeWitt before he married Mrs. Barrett..I don't think there were. It could have been interesting (possibly a better storyline than Sharon/Richard) if Stacey had tried setting her mom up with a regular client's dad or that of one of her friends.
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oldhickory
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Post by oldhickory on May 20, 2011 14:01:51 GMT -5
the only one i can think of is mr morgan (i think that's his name -- the client who called at the end of logan likes MA who had a bunch of boys).
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Post by zoar3 on May 20, 2011 14:07:13 GMT -5
^We never heard of Mr. Morgan or his mystery boys again, did we? Even the "Odhners" had a few mentions. Could memory, Oldhickory.
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Post by Honeybee on Jul 4, 2011 21:21:42 GMT -5
I just finish reading this book. I didn't like it. Joni was such a brat. Ewan was adorable. This was my forst time reading this book. When did Stacey start dating Ethan?
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Post by anzuhana on Jul 4, 2011 22:29:19 GMT -5
^ I'm not sure of the exact book where she and Ethan start dating. She met him in Stacey's Broken Heart.
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u4me
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Post by u4me on Jul 5, 2011 21:06:03 GMT -5
I got this book in the mail today. Can't wait to read it since I've never read it before. Although I also received Stacey vs the BSC and I haven't read that in a long time and really want to, so I might read that one first.
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Post by u4me on Jul 12, 2011 7:44:29 GMT -5
I read this book over the weekend and I liked it. Mr. Brooks was kind of crazy though. I thought that was exaggerated - how he would suddenly turn into a jerk. I like Ms. McGill though. Smart lady.
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Post by wiggir13 on Aug 23, 2011 10:55:49 GMT -5
I really liked this one as it reminds me so much of my relationship with my mom. I find it great that Stacey was really pushing the relationship because I wanted my mom to remarry so badly too. I just wanted to see her happy! She never dated one guy since my dad died when I was six but I hope she is and has been happy. Anyway, I wonder how I would have acted had she met someone?
Back to the book, I'm glad that Ms. Mcgill didn't settle for the first contact wearing hair dying guy who came along. Sometimes, you just don't feel it and you know it won't work. I wish Stacey would have been more supportive of her mom, but I can understand her wanting so badly for it to work.
I love the scene where Joni throws the mouse up in the tree!
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Post by zoar3 on Aug 23, 2011 16:10:58 GMT -5
I have to say that Mr. Brooke had a Mr. Nicholl's feeling about him (for me) almost the entire book. I didn't fully trust or come to like him. I thought he was awful to Joni. It was very interesting though to read about Maureen dating a client father and I wish the hints of Abby wishing her mother would date had been played out more. Same token, I'd have loved hearing more about Richard dating (non Sharon). It sure sounded like he got around. Oh and speaking of Sharon, MA flat out admits that she wasn't necessarily happy about the re-marriage but Dawn cancelled any negative/uncertain feelings about that out. I.e. MA does luv Dawn and neither Richard nor Sharon took the time to make sure their respective kids felt okay about them becoming a family beforehand. Lol, sorry that's o/t from the book. Back to the book, re-reading, I want to scream at Mal and the others "Kelsey!" I had never thought of that until someone, I think Sparklymouse, pointed it out as a solution. Surely that should have been looked into. I also don't get why Mal couldn't have won a scholarship to SDS just as easily as Riverbend. But, sigh, I still am angry with her parents (and SMS) for apparently never meeting to try and remedy the situation. If the entire school was truly tormenting Mal daily....come on, at least one adult had to be aware of this, didn't they?!
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Post by greer on Aug 23, 2011 17:46:38 GMT -5
I think Mal wanted more to change than just her school, though. Also, frankly, I don't think Kelsey would have been an improvement over SMS. SDS, maybe, but I think Mal also wanted to go to an all-girls' school.
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Post by zoar3 on Aug 23, 2011 19:24:21 GMT -5
^I can see Mal just wanting a completely brand-new experience. I still think it was odd that Kelsey wasn't even mentioned and that the only SDS mention was Mal shrugging off the idea by saying her parents couldn't afford it.
O/T to the above but was this the first book where a sitter (Kristy in this case) baby-sat so very late at night? Mr. Brooke didn't come home until 12:30am! I thought sitting curfew for the older girls was 10 on weekends--which I still think is late though not as late as if on a weeknight. But 12:30am, WTF?!
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Post by greer on Aug 23, 2011 19:53:30 GMT -5
Boarding schools/prep schools tend to have excellent endowments because they tend to churn out people with cash/people who were born wealthy and people are FAR more nostalgic for their boarding school days than their college days. Mine had an underground network of catacombs that featured things like a room full of marble someone donated years and years ago--enough to do the entire main hall of the school--that my school deemed "ostentatious." Boarding schools tend to have the room to be more giving with the financial aid/scholarship packages than a regular private school would. Plus they do more seeking out for kids with special talents, like Mal's writing, because obviously when you're living at school there is a lot more nuturing going on than going from 8-2.30 or whatever and then going home, and you're choosing students from an international pool and not just those within driving distance. Also, SDS seemed kind of snooty to me. My little brother and sister go to a snobby school in an area with great wealth disparity, and they don't really seem to do all that much with financial aid, etc. because the parents don't want The Poors near their precious spawn.
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Post by maddieruns on Feb 3, 2012 19:19:46 GMT -5
O/T to the above but was this the first book where a sitter (Kristy in this case) baby-sat so very late at night? Mr. Brooke didn't come home until 12:30am! I thought sitting curfew for the older girls was 10 on weekends--which I still think is late though not as late as if on a weeknight. But 12:30am, WTF?! Ha, Mr. Brooke showed no regard for the bsc time rules. He also never called between 5:30 and 6:00, making Kristy pissed. Maybe this is why we never heard from the Brookes after this book. Count me in as also being surprised that Richard dated multiple times before meeting Sharon. (Do you think he met these people from his office?) I was also surprised to hear Mary Anne say she didn't like her father dating. Before this book I imagined Mary Anne wishing her father would date so she’d be under less scrutiny.
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Post by anzuhana on Feb 3, 2012 19:30:20 GMT -5
I don't think Richard would date someone from his office since I don't think he's the kind of person to mix buisness with pleasure.
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