oldhickory
Sitting For The Arnolds
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Post by oldhickory on Aug 16, 2023 9:34:53 GMT -5
Spandex flared pants now would just be called yoga pants and nobody would bat an eye.
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Post by oldmeanie on Aug 29, 2023 13:30:22 GMT -5
This is a book I haven't read since it was first released so there was a lot of things I forgot or misremembered. For instance, when she goes out with RJ, I was thinking he was Robert. I knew she had a boyfriend in the series named Robert and was just thinking he went by RJ by his friends and she called him Robert. IDK! But once she's not having a good time on her date, I knew it wasn't Robert! Also, "Mall Warriors II" sounds exactly like "Home Alone" in a mall. Another thing I misremembered was that Stacey did NOT make the cheerleading squad. This whole storyline with Stacey being friends with the cheerleader (that's who she becomes friends with, right? And I misremembering that too?) and quits the BSC is really interesting and kind of a nice change, to be honest. I like a little drama in my BSC series, I won't lie! "Stacey's Lie" was one of the last BSC books I read in real time. At that time, I was 13 and knew I was getting too old to read these so I stopped reading. Fast forward to the mid-2000s where I was on e-bay and bought a bunch of BSC books (sadly, my mom gave my collection away to someone with a young daughter). Most of these were early books, but there were a few later ones including "Stacey vs the BSC" and "BSC in the USA". You can imagine how confused I was when I read "BSC in the USA" and Stacey's talking about meeting a guy she liked named Ethan in Seattle. I had no clue what was going on and what had happened to Robert! Back to "Stacey and the Cheerleaders." These cool kids seem to come out of nowhere! I also thought Stacey was one of the coolest kids at SMS. She's from NYC! I feel like if there was another student from the City, we would know about it. Maybe hanging out with the BSC lost Stacey some cool points, heh. I have to admit I felt Stacey's embarrassment when Kristy whistled really loudly after the basketball game to remind Stacey about the sleepover. I would be embarrassed too. Why does Kristy need to announce that in public? I wouldn't want people knowing my plans! Although, I don't think having a sleepover when you're 13 is that bad, that seems pretty normal for 13 years old girls to do. But I totally get why Stacey was embarrassed. It was also funny when she thought Claud's outfit (with the bell bottoms spandex pants or whatever) looked odd. Heh! Finally, someone admits Claud's outfits can be a little weird at times. Also, uh, wasn't Tiffany Kilbourne eleven when we first met her? I would need to fact check that, but I'm pretty sure she started off the series as being eleven. So why is she ten in this book? This is sort of embarrassing, but I couldn't really keep Stacey's new friends straight in this storyline. I actually searched in my Kindle for answers to this XD. Sheila was among the cheerleaders, but her other new friends (Mia, Andi, and Jacqui) weren't even mentioned in #70. It is sort of confusing the way it's written. I thought Claud and Stacey were the cool kids too! I definitely got the impression that they were sort of demoted from the "cool kids" status when the BSC all sat together during lunch. I always got the impression that the BSC was generally well-liked until the late series, though. Dawn's crusades and their monopoly on baby-sitting didn't exactly help their popularity. Sleepovers are 100% normal in middle and high school! Kristy would definitely be seen as a weirdo for shouting it, though. The Tiffany thing bugs me so much. I feel like it's not THAT hard to keep their ages straight! Tiffany used to be a sitter, but she is regressing or something. She's so immature in later books, it's like she's the same age as Maria.
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