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Post by zoar3 on Jun 1, 2011 20:16:21 GMT -5
^Good point. I think also at least one family would live in an apartment or smaller sized house.
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Post by greer on Jun 2, 2011 6:59:36 GMT -5
Why? I don't think that's something that has changed over the years. Ann seems to be familiar with a world where everyone's parents are lawyers or in advertising.
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Post by zoar3 on Jun 2, 2011 11:09:16 GMT -5
^And make a lot of money doing so. If that didn't change, probably their homes wouldn't either.
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Post by greer on Jun 2, 2011 11:20:44 GMT -5
It's just always seemed to me that Ann is only really familiar with an upper middle class world, and people tend to write what they know.
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Post by zoar3 on Jun 2, 2011 17:00:47 GMT -5
^That's true, too. The only other book by Ann that I've read was "Inside Out." The family featured was also upper middle class, living (I think) in MA.
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Post by peppermintraymaker on Jun 2, 2011 19:56:57 GMT -5
^What about the "Main Street" series? I know that Min is a small business owner in that series but I can't see the owner of a craft store making nearly as much as a lawyer. The last few books in that series also talked a lot about how families were suffering under the poor economy, which seemed to me to be a departure from the usual upper-middle class world I've seen in most of Ann's books.
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Post by zoar3 on Jun 2, 2011 21:04:09 GMT -5
^I never read "Main Street," that sounds interesting. Aww, I wonder if "Min" was in anyway a take-off on "Mimi?" Poor Mimi. :'/ I've been thinking about this a little today and think if the Series were written today, unless Stoneybrook was set early on as a wealthier place, there'd almost have to be more "variety." I think that could've given us a "fuller" glimpse of the town and more families.
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Post by candykane on Jun 2, 2011 22:33:38 GMT -5
Has anyone read Slam Book? I read it about a year ago. There was a character in that book who was the class loser, aka the girl no one wanted to be friends with. I'm pretty sure I remember that her family was supposed to be poor.
I still can't believe Ann is the author of that book! It's so dark compared to her other books.
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Post by booboobrewer on Jun 2, 2011 22:38:40 GMT -5
I read it! Yeah, I think she was poor. Wish my copy of that wasn't packed away somewhere.
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Post by greer on Jun 3, 2011 4:32:57 GMT -5
But the Row Houses were niiiice. Nikki's family was poor, though.
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