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Post by virgoscorpio on Sept 18, 2011 20:30:52 GMT -5
I liked the Hallowe'en feel to this book.
People keep saying that these books are boring, but I quite enjoyed MABTR. I also liked book 80, 81, 83 and 85 which are all around this time....
And the title was bad, I agree. Inviting Logan over to play with Jake WAS NOT a bad thing. I felt really bad for Mary Anne. Especially since she had good intentions.
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Post by oldhickory on Sept 18, 2011 23:46:00 GMT -5
having good intentions doesn't really matter if you manage to completely screw things up. but i do think that what she was trying to do was really sweet.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Sept 19, 2011 19:19:26 GMT -5
True, oldhickory, true. But I think having good intentions is better than screwing things up and being a b*tch.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Sept 19, 2011 19:22:58 GMT -5
*cough* Stacey *cough* (even though I like Stacey, hehe)
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Post by Honeybee on Nov 18, 2011 16:04:22 GMT -5
This was okay book. MA just told Mrs. Kuhn why Logan was there in the first place. Their wouldn't be any problems. (But, will be a short book.0
Sub-plot. I really didn't care for.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Dec 16, 2011 18:50:42 GMT -5
Reading this again, I like the book, but I thought it was oddly done. They could have created a much better plot where the rules are actually broken in a pretty severe way and not have sugar-coated it (but I guess it's BSC land). This book reminded me of MA and the Silent Witness, how the boyfriend and girlfriend actually *did* break the rules while babysitting, and also started the fire. THAT would have been a much better plot. Maybe MA and Logan go to kiss and they knock over a candle which starts a fire and kills one of the Kuhn kids?)
Interesting tid-bit about this book for my childhood: I first read it when a cool friend loaned it to me. I remember asking her how long it took her to read it and she said 45 min, and I remember that blew my mind back then. She might have actually given me my first copy too, when she lost interest but I (obviously) kept interest in the series.
So I kind of took this book as a big lesson in communication, I guess. But I do like it because it has a Mary Anne and Logan sub-plots, BSC bitchiness, Hallowe'en, autumn scenes, a haunted house.
Jake kind of reminded me of me at his age. I looked like him, as he does on the cover, and my father was never around (even though my parents weren't divorced; they were never married). So I could sympathize with Jake. It would have been nice to have a male bonding session with someone like Logan, so in all, the intentions of MA and Logan were incredibly sweet.
Also, maybe this book is trying to teach young kids on the importance of communication? Who knows.
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Post by celaeno on Oct 14, 2012 22:04:55 GMT -5
I'm lucky to have just gotten to this book in my pile o' BSC books I've got left to read, since the the October-ness is strong in this one (and, luckily, my next one is Dawn and the Halloween Mystery). I find it pretty funny that the BSC books in the 70s - 80s seem to have been the BSC bad girl period! We have, of course, the Stacey and the Bad Girls arc. We have book titles like Mary Anne Breaks the Rules, Jessi's Horrible Prank, and Stacey's Lie. We have Dawn stealing her dad's credit card and running away in Dawn and the We <3 Kids Club. We have Kristy vandalizing school property in Kristy and the Copycat. What a period for the BSC!
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Post by virgoscorpio on Oct 19, 2012 20:14:43 GMT -5
^ Your post reminded me to pull out this book for the Halloween nostalgia, so thanks for that!
I still feel kind of bad for Mary Anne in this one. I kind of wish that the plot was done a little differently. Maybe Mary Anne does something to disobey Richard and breaks the rules - like sneaks out to see Logan past curfew. I can understand how the BSC thought that their reputation would go downhill. But, at the same time, wouldn't these clients know the BSC members pretty well and know what good kids they actually are. Also, Logan is a BSC member - wouldn't Mrs. Kuhn know that already? Wouldn't she have seen him at some festival or event that the BSC put on already? This is book 79 after all, so a lot of stuff has happened so far!
I looked at the past thread and laughed at how booboo thought of the same things as I did. For one, I liked Logan's sign ~ FREE IF YOU DON'T SURVIVE.
I also thought it was interesting how Mrs. Kuhn requests only female sitters. Isn't that kind of reverse sexism? Like, if someone only requested male sitters you wouldn't hear the end of it. Kristy, for example, could say how girls could play sports just as good as guys can. And I would have loved to play dolls or dress up with the Kuhn girls. I was slightly annoyed at that ... and what about Jake? Does he not count? No boy sitter allowed for him?
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Post by oldhickory on Oct 20, 2012 1:18:02 GMT -5
^ that's a really good point, especially since mrs kuhn knows that jake is missing his dad. but i see her being the kind of parent who would be afraid of letting any boy baby-sitter around the girls.
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Post by celaeno on Oct 20, 2012 21:58:06 GMT -5
This book takes place at the same time as Dawn and the Halloween Mystery (since that book came out right after this one, and they both take place during Halloween), so it's weird that Dawn's mystery isn't mentioned in this book. Mary Anne and Dawn even chat on the phone, so how come Dawn isn't like "Oh BTW, I witnessed a robbery I'm now involved in helping solve"?
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Post by virgoscorpio on Oct 20, 2012 22:45:15 GMT -5
^ Maybe this one happened - even a few days before - Dawn's Hallowe'en mystery!?
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Post by zoar3 on Dec 27, 2012 12:08:47 GMT -5
I've been coming up empty trying to think of any Stoneybrook clients with 2 boys and one girl in their family. I don't think (other than Logan's family) there were any. We have plenty of 2 girls and one boy, two or more girls, and even a handful of one of each gender but none with more boys. (Kristy's family doesn't "count" because Sam and Charlie are not charges). I love the idea of Logan being a big brother. I think "Big Brothers, Big Sisters," is a wonderful organization that I'd love to volunteer with one day. Since after "Kristy and the Missing Child," Jake and his family "disappeared," pretty much until this one, it's hard to believe Jake was instantly so very close to Logan. I don't recall Logan having ever even met Jake before! This probably still is similar the Stacey/Charlotte discussion up-thread. Virgo, that is a great point about Patsy and Laurel. It truly did sound as they were indifferent to Logan's presence (maybe) because it got their moody brother out of their hair? There was definitely the one scene where the girls were all watching Logan and Jake play basketball. Shouldn't Logan have asked if either of them wanted a shot? I did still enjoy the Autumn feel and LOVED that Jamie Newton wanted to go trick or treating as a shopping bag--so clever! Claudia could have gone with him.
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Post by wiggir13 on Jan 12, 2013 20:42:42 GMT -5
So I really feel like the end of this book could have had a cool sort of make Alan a bsc member question. I know that happened in the tv series but it think it would have been fun to read.
MA just makes me so mad in this one! This girl has got to start standing up for herself! She doesn't with ms Kuhn or the bsc. I would have told kristy to go to hell. Instead ma says of course kristy has to put the club of friends .... Um no!
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Post by starrynight on Jan 13, 2013 1:13:01 GMT -5
^ Wait, Alan became a BSC member in the tv series???
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Post by virgoscorpio on Jan 13, 2013 2:46:34 GMT -5
^ Sort of. Alan and Pete (Black) sort-of become Boysitters for a while. Although it doesn't work out, even though the kids seem to like them.
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