wanderingfrog
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Post by wanderingfrog on Feb 17, 2012 23:13:41 GMT -5
Was it in Phantom Phone Calls? Kristy mentions a girl with spiky hair and fingerless gloves and Stacey starts to cry. I always liked how Kristy says there is no point to wearing gloves without fingertips, and that this girl's clothes are nothing like Stacey's, they're just weird, and then in the next book Stacey tells us that she has gloves with the fingertips cut off. zoar3, Stacey did have a winter vacation boyfriend named Pierre. It was Claudia in that book who had the crush on Guy, the married ski instructor.
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Post by zoar3 on Feb 17, 2012 23:15:57 GMT -5
^Thanks Wanderingfrog. No offense to anyone who thinks otherwise, but I have to agree with Kristy on the gloves.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Feb 18, 2012 0:49:04 GMT -5
^ But what if you have really, really cold palms? LOL.
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Post by greer on Feb 18, 2012 7:12:56 GMT -5
^Thanks Wanderingfrog. No offense to anyone who thinks otherwise, but I have to agree with Kristy on the gloves. They're for smokers.
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Post by wanderingfrog on Feb 18, 2012 19:23:58 GMT -5
Amusingly enough, I currently have another browser tab open where I am looking at fingerless mitt patterns. I forgot we were talking about fingertip-less gloves last night. Sometimes it's cold enough that you really should be wearing normal gloves or mittens, but you can't because you're also doing something with your hands... texting when you're outside, typing when you are so broke you can't afford to turn up the heat in your apartment, smoking... and I just saw one pair of fingerless mitts on Ravelry where the project info says "Made for my daughter to wear at violin group that meets in a chilly room at 7.45am." Also, fingerless mitts are very easy to knit, which is why I'm looking at some patterns right now. I'm planning to have to have my minions the students in my beginner knitting class next month knit some. I personally don't wear them very often, and when I do, it's really more to warm up my wrists than to warm up my hands. Lace gloves with just the fingertips cut off, though, do not have any practical use that I can see.
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Post by wenonah4th on Feb 19, 2012 16:26:43 GMT -5
Weren't they a Madonna thing?
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Post by greer on Feb 20, 2012 3:29:01 GMT -5
Weren't they a Madonna thing? Yeah, Madonna wore them, but I think lots of 80s punks did.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Feb 20, 2012 20:16:14 GMT -5
They also have the fingerless gloves that have he mitt pouch that you can velcro to the back of the mitt (when you want to use your fingers) and tuck the flap over your fingers again when you want warmth. I guess that's also what you were talking about, wenonah4th.
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supprazz
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Post by supprazz on Feb 21, 2012 4:01:19 GMT -5
Madonna wore them in the 80's and 00's I believe. The videos for Lucky Star, Into the Groove, and her tours come in mind.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Aug 6, 2012 1:55:50 GMT -5
Does anyone else not like the title Stacey's Choice? It's always been blah to me. Stacey's Dilemma would have been better. And it only took me a second to think about This book and Stacey's Lie are my 2 favourite mid-series Stacey books. But like in Stacey's Lie, Stacey and Ed have horrible communication in this one. Ann would have been able to pull this off a bit better if Maureen had a really serious illness that required constant attention all the time. The way it's written makes Stacey sound very caring but paranoid at the same time. But this book does contain a lot of stuff I love, like how Stacey talks about the seasons at the beginning and the girl's shopping trip - where they leave the less favored Mallory and Jessi behind! - and Kristy is obsessed at looking at a baseball glove or something.
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Post by supprazz on Aug 18, 2012 14:53:12 GMT -5
I really enjoyed the shopping trip as I do in a lot of books, Mallory and the Trouble with Twins coming to mind as well as Mary Anne's Makeover
I like the title, it's prettier than Dilemma
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Post by zoar3 on Nov 4, 2012 18:15:37 GMT -5
All I can think of on the 40's diner thing is once again Ann"forgetting" this book was written in 1992 about 13-old girls in 1987. I always associate the start of diners with the 50's. Maybe Ann was "remembering" the first diner she ever went to in the 60's? One thing I did finally solve (to a degree) was the mystery of the visiting nurse. Until this re-read, I always thought Ed had lined her up on Tuesday (the day after Maureen collapsed and Stacey first told her dad what had happened). I had wondered why none of them seemed to question if by Friday Maureen would still require such care. This time around, I got that he told Stacey the nurse would be arranged for Friday on Thursday. I still fail to comprehend why the agency never called Maureen to see if she truly required such care or as others have said why Mrs. Kishi along with another parent chose to stick around once the nurse had come. My main , of course, are the "mom-sitters" to begin with. Nice idea, very helpful neighbors, but not one of them, not one, ever asked Maureen what she thought of the idea! Stacey sure never did. I did like Ed in this one. I thought he was genuinely trying to involve Stacey in his celebration. I also wonder if he ever did call Mrs. Pike. He said he might (to find out about Maureen) at the beginning. The kids were very funny and creative. Not sure why some of the older ones wanted what they ordered. I hope they enjoyed the yo-yo's.
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Post by sparklymouse on Nov 4, 2012 19:35:58 GMT -5
All I can think of on the 40's diner thing is once again Ann"forgetting" this book was written in 1992 about 13-old girls in 1987. I always associate the start of diners with the 50's anyway. Maybe Ann was "remembering" the first diner she ever went to in the 60's? Not that it matters in the instance that you're talking about, but I always assumed that the books were set in whatever year they came out. Wasn't this the one where he said manipulative bs like "You have to be there, Stacey. You're all I have." No likey.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Nov 4, 2012 20:30:43 GMT -5
This one is a good one to read around this time of year. I guess because it suddenly gets cold and people often become sick during the weather changes. Not to mention the autumn feel to this book. It's been raining and drizzly for days here! I always felt for Maureen but enjoyed the relationship development between her and Dee.
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Post by zoar3 on Nov 4, 2012 20:47:03 GMT -5
^He did say that Sparklymouse. I just liked him (maybe before he said that) because he sounded really happy to be able to share his good news with Stacey. He (I hope) meant "you're all I have," in terms of, "you are the most special person in my life and I'd love for you to help me celebrate." He didn't quite say it that way, but hope that was what he meant. Since so many of the books have references from the 50's and whenever Wizard of Oz came out, along with the overall feel sometimes of "old fashioned-ness," I often feel like Ann got lost in her own time warp.
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