Natasha
New To Stoneybrook
BSC Reread Update: no 115:Jessi's big break.
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Post by Natasha on Apr 23, 2017 9:18:51 GMT -5
I actually don't remember reading this one from the original run and now I know why! Its so boring and tedious and I don't find sewing and needlework all that interesting. I can add this one to my boring and pointless BSC books.
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Post by Kylie90210 on Apr 23, 2017 21:19:06 GMT -5
Yeah I think I've only read it once!
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Post by oldmeanie on Oct 27, 2022 23:05:01 GMT -5
This book for some reason makes me long for summer a bit. And I mean, summers when I was a kid and didn't have to do anything lol. Doesn't make sense with the plot of this book, but oh well.
This is actually one of the best post-makeover Mary Anne covers. She looks pretty good on here. And it's an actual scene from the book! Feels like a bonus.
This... isn't one of the more exciting books (I've never sewed anything in my life. I probably should learn basic things like mending buttons, though), but it's not bad, either. I like the lesson, that you shouldn't put others' needs above yours so much that you neglect yourself, but it actually didn't spend too much time on that. The first half of the book is kind of a drag, focused so much on sewing, then it's in the beginning of the second half that Mrs. Towne gets injured and all of Mary Anne's time is suddenly eaten up, to the point where she doesn't see he friends, babysit, or even stay for an entire meeting. Wtf?
There's A TON of foreshadowing to Dawn's Big Move. It's actually very heavy-handed (she's always sighing and saying, "I miss Dad and Jeff." For some reason I find it annoying? Not that she misses them, I guess just that Nola Thacker is trying too hard. Lol). It really feels like there wasn't much foreshadowing in the early 60s, then all the sudden, the writers realized this and crammed all of it in this book. For such a huge change in the series, that's kind of surprising. Is it just me?
A couple inconsistencies within the first two chapters:
"(Now I can even wear a little makeup, but still no pierced ears. Yet!"
Iirc, Mary Anne didn't want pierced ears at all. Camp Mohawk scared her.
"Anyway, that’s how the BSC got started. Kristy, Claudia, and I were charter members. But because it was such a great idea, in no time at all, the BSC needed more members, which is how Stacey joined us."
That's not how I remember it! Stacey was an original member. Arghhhh this inconsistency bothers me so much. The series sums up KGI in like every book, yet they mess up a basic detail like this. Blah.
Maybe I was just hungry, but Mary Anne and Logan's picnic sounds good to me XD. Also, shut up Dawn, who cares if it's junk food? Tbh, what they bring doesn't actually sound too far off from what Dawn eats anyway. Chips and salsa, cream cheese and jelly sandwiches, pimento cheese (this sounds good to me and idk why. I just don't see why it would be bad), avocado, grapes, Oreos (so Dawn wouldn't eat these, but the rest sounds like something she'd come up with. Also, now I want Oreos). I just had to note the food because reading BSC books always makes me hungry lol.
Also, a picnic date is kind of my ideal date. I'm lame lol.
I'd be pissed if I were Logan too. I think Mrs. Towne calling her for minor things during meetings was kind of ridiculous. I have no idea why Mary Anne left early, since the meetings are only half an hour and they're a prior commitment. I think this book is also a good lesson for setting boundaries. I wish I'd learned how to do this earlier, would've saved me a ton of unnecessary stress.
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livvy
Sitter-In-Training
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Post by livvy on Jul 2, 2023 20:50:14 GMT -5
I hate this one. I hate sewing and anything else to do with sewing. Plus this line from MA was really stupid: " What if Mrs Towne looked down on people who used sewing machines?" Geez I thought most people who are used them because they were easier!
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