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Post by booboobrewer on Jan 26, 2009 13:03:18 GMT -5
Maybe they did feel that way, along with knowing that they were the most unpopular sitters.
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Post by candykane on Jan 27, 2009 10:34:46 GMT -5
^ True about them being the least popular sitters. I used to belong to the BSC Fan Club, so I got the newsletters. (I think I might still have one somewhere, buried in a box at my dad's house...I should look for it.) Anyway, they had a thing where you could vote for your favorite sitter, and they put the results in a subsequent newsletter. Stacey won by a landslide, and coming in last were Mallory and Jessi. For some reason, I can remember that Jessi received about 900 votes, but I can't recall the numbers for anyone else! I think Stacey was over 10,000, though. Crazy. I wish I would have saved all the newsletters I'd gotten from the BSC fan club. It would be a hoot to scan those into the computer for everyone.
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Post by booboobrewer on Jan 27, 2009 12:56:53 GMT -5
^I scanned some of mine not last year but I think the year before, and greer linked to them on her stoneybrookite blog if you want to look.
I never saw the poll...I wonder who came in second.
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Post by greer on Jan 27, 2009 13:19:59 GMT -5
Somebody is also posting them all one-by-one on the babysittersclub livejournal community. I think you need to join to see the posts with them, though. They might be locked.
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Post by candykane on Jan 27, 2009 17:18:04 GMT -5
^Sweet. I belong to that comm but I hardly ever look at it. Mostly I read at bsc_snark.
I think it was Claudia. I know for sure Stacey was #1. I think Kristy was third to last, Mallory was second to last, and Jessi was definitely last. As for the rest of them, I don't remember.
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Post by tiff85 on Mar 7, 2009 18:02:03 GMT -5
I used to love this book! I remember seeing the cover in the library and wanting to read it so much! Mallory and the rest of the pike clan are fun to read about.
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Post by anzuhana on Jul 14, 2010 9:50:35 GMT -5
I thought that the Uncle Joe subplot was sad. I liked it when at the end, he called Nicky "Nick." I thought that the Craine girls were sweet. I would've liked it if Mallory got more than one mystery in the mystery series.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Jan 3, 2011 13:57:08 GMT -5
I liked this mystery. I enjoyed how the storyline with Uncle Joe seemed to balance out the Ghost Cat plot. In my mind, Aunt Bud is a d**e The ending was a little weak -- but then again, most of the mystery plots seem to be so what can you expect, eh!?
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Post by virgoscorpio on Jan 3, 2011 18:07:53 GMT -5
My family also used to eat artichokes often when I was growing up. We always had them with a side-dish of melted butter. Mmmm. Most often, they were served with a roast beef entree. But then I realized that not many families had them because they were expensive. I just know that the more deeper you get into the artichoke, the more you can eat
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Post by oldhickory on Apr 11, 2011 12:00:09 GMT -5
mallory and the craine girls are reading a bunch of letters written by kennedy graham when a picture falls out. i don't know how long the craines have lived in their home or how many people lived there since kennedy graham, but it doesn't say anywhere on the picture itself that the man in the photo is kennedy. everyone is so quick to assume that the picture is him because it was with the letters, but maybe it was a picture of any one of the previous owners, and it just got thrown into the hatbox with all the letters? (the same thing happens in mystery diary -- old hickory's confession ended up in sophie's trunk because the nephew was just throwing things together.) i'm pretty sure the craine girls said that most of the stuff in the attic was there when they moved into the house, but i can't find which page that's on. but it's totally possible that the picture was from a man who lived in the house a few years ago, and when his cat ran away, it went back to a house where they used to live. i know it's kind of a long shot, but i absolutely do not believe in ghosts and i refuse to believe the ghost of kennedy graham is still reading the stoneybrook news looking for his lost cat.
on another note, rasputin is a pretty badass name for a cat.
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Post by candykane on Apr 29, 2011 20:13:52 GMT -5
I love how all these houses in Stoneybrook had attics full of things from previous owners going back centuries. Is this something that's actually common in New England? It used to make me wish I could explore an attic like that. Well, I still would like to do that!
They were quick to assume the man in the photo was Kennedy Graham. Oldhickory, your theory of the picture being a recent one and the cat returning to its old house does make more sense than them both being ghosts. I kind of like that this wasn't solved. I think Mallory says near the end that it was "fun to have a mystery to chew on."
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Post by zoar3 on May 28, 2011 20:04:47 GMT -5
From Page 12
I had heard the conversation, but I wasn't paying the strictest attention to it. As soon as Dad had spilled the news, I’d started to worry about something. With Uncle Joe here, would my parents need me to baby-sit? I love to baby-sit and I do it a lot. In fact, I’m in a baby-sitters club, which I’ll tell you more about later. But sitting for my family is my favorite. And what if Uncle Joe’s visit turned out to be permanent? Jessi's Aunt Cecelia came to stay, and before she knew it, ]essi didn’t get to sit nearly as much for her little brother and sister.
I decided that the best way to deal with my worries would be just to ask, so I did. "Dad?” I said. "When Uncle Joe is here, will you--will you guys still need me to baby-sit?”
He smiled at me, and so did Mom. “Of course, honey," he said. We’ll always need you"
What a relief. As soon as the family meeting was over, I headed for the phone. My book (Mal was reading A Wrinkle in Time) could wait. I needed to tell my best friend the latest Pike family news.
I am up to this book and had the thought "What if Uncle Joe, had been healthy?" What if he moved to Stoneybrook either because his wife had died, to be closer to her (maybe she required nursing care), or for old friends and/or family. That could have been very interesting both in the "new" sense of a relatively healthy older male relative moving in (either for a bit or for good) and as to how that might change Mal's feelings of being "treated like a baby." She might have more freedom--alone time--but then as she semi-suggested in the above, might not want it!
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Post by wiggir13 on May 29, 2011 15:02:28 GMT -5
I like where you are going with that Zoar! Considering the pikes had just started to not rely on Mallory as much he could have been a great help.
It is interesting as I reread this to see Uncle Joe with AD. I lived with my grandmother since I was a baby and I watched her progress into this disease until it took her life and let me say it was awful. The book says the disease doesn't change your personality, but it sometimes did. I felt for Mr Pike b/c it is so hard to watch. I like that when Uncle Joe went back to the home, he seemed much more at ease.
I found it hilarious that Mallory kept calling Claudia her old person expert b/c she lived with Mimi! I guess the other grandparents aren't supposed to be old....nannie and her bowling league.
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Post by zoar3 on May 29, 2011 17:17:22 GMT -5
^Thanks, glad it made sense. He might have also helped Nicky develop more self confidence by being an adult Nicky could hang out with. (Magic tricks scene at the end). I also liked how he sort of brought the Pikes together as a family. That reminds me, you guys know, generally I like Dee and John. It occurred to me that in this one, they both really were not being the best parents to their kids when almost immediately it was obvious the Uncle Joe arrangement was not working out. It seemed like everyone was tip toe-ing around for so long, despite feeling scared, unsure, and concerned about their great Uncle. On Pages 108 and 109 following Uncle Joe suddenly "forgetting" who Mr. Pike was, Mallory calls Claudia again for advice and then relays (to us) the following. ^Whoa! If Mallory really felt that way....how very sad. It took Margo, in the next scene, running into a fully dressed Uncle Joe "on his way to church" to "wake" them (D and J) up. to Nannie. She was too "cool" and "not your typical grandmother" to be old. Finally, if you ever want an empathetic ear about your Grandmother and AD, pm or email me. I, too, lost my beloved Grandmother to the disease. I'm sorry you had to go through that yourself.
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Post by zoar3 on Oct 26, 2012 19:05:50 GMT -5
Sorry for the double post but lol it has been over a year! This time around it bugged me that Mal kept labeling Claudia as the "old folks" expert." I was trying to figure out how old Uncle Joe might be. Isn't he John Pike's great Uncle? If so he's probably one of Mal's Grandparents brothers. If Dee and John are 30 at most, their parents mid 50's...Uncle Joe could be anywhere from 70 on up. I still have a feeling Aunt Cecelia was probably in her 50's tops. Nannie, sigh we never know if she's 73 or 73 going on 23. "My" Mimi could have been anywhere from early 70's on up, too. It just seemed like there were other resources besides Claudia. IDK, maybe because it seemed so sudden that Claud had advice for Mal. Not my favorite subplot at all. I think Uncle Joe should have either been healthy or maybe in some sort of Thanksgiving or Heritage Day book. What would have made a cool subplot for this mystery would be if Stacey or Dawn finally discovered more info on either Sophie or Jared Mullray. I picked Stacey first since it was Mal who was most "involved" with Sophie's diary. Maybe they finally find info relating Sophie and Jared (I still wish that had happened) or something even about Mr. Hennessey who was mentioned offhandedly at the end anyway. It would have been cool having two (regular--non criminal) mysteries in one.
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