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Post by booboobrewer on Dec 12, 2012 18:47:10 GMT -5
In Kristy's Great Idea, Stacey says her parents have been married for 15 years, and Claudia says hers have been married for 20.
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supprazz
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Post by supprazz on Feb 22, 2013 18:42:58 GMT -5
Too bad Dawn give herself a chance to tie dye with Sunny, that looked fun!
I still like the part about gluing the blocks together best
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Post by ashley868 on Feb 10, 2014 0:46:13 GMT -5
Just finished reading this book. I really liked her portrait and I thought her and Sunny were cute as kids. I also thought it was funny that she glued all the blocks together. I found it depressing as well that Dawn was picturing her parents being together forever, when we all know they are going to divorce a couple years later.
I can't justify Dawn reading that letter, but I can understand her slip even though it was horrible. I remember when I was maybe 11 or 12, I overheard my mom talking about some bad news about my sister on the phone. I didn't mean to overhear, I walked in the door and heard her talking about it. I didn't mention it, and then just went on with my day. That night at supper we were talking about school and our days and I accidentally let it slip. My mom had wanted to tell my sister the news later but I ended up ruining it. I don't really want to say what it was, so I won't. But even typing it makes me feel bad about it even though it's been years.
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Post by supprazz on Feb 11, 2014 11:59:46 GMT -5
I wonder if they were beige blocks or colored blocks
Sandra would have been a neat client in the series if Dawn hadn't slipped up. She could have been friends with Charlotte and Becca, or even the Perkins girls, they all liked to cook and bake and they would have loved her menu and cookbook ideas.
What did you think of the fire story?
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Post by livvy on Apr 28, 2022 5:24:52 GMT -5
Sharon really annoyed me in this book. Treating her parents like old people even though they were in their 70s/80s. Just because they're old doesn't mean they act it. It's actually really insulting to her parents.
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Post by oldmeanie on Mar 5, 2023 11:27:24 GMT -5
This is a pretty good portrait; all the stories held my attention.
Gluing the blocks together was funny. I think I remember thinking that was kind of genius when I first read it.
Dawn and Jeff were always very close and I find it kind of endearing how Jeff thought his job was to entertain Dawn lol. I can see why it was so hard for her to stay in Stoneybrook. I feel like if Jeff stayed, she would have too. I still think that what Sharon pulled with moving across the country was just awful (and overall I like Sharon despite this).
Love the Sunny chapter, it's my favorite. It is a little sad reading about how happy the Winslows were, since we all know what happens. Dawn was funny thinking that tie-dyeing meant dead ties (that is totally something I would've thought at that age) and being so weirded out by them. It feels realistic in a way. I really think Dawn and Sunny have a deep bond and hope their friendship can survive long after the CDs. I'm a little sad that they didn't keep the peace sign flowerbed tbh.
It's kind of annoying that in this book, Maggie and Jill were close friends with Dawn before meeting Sunny, when in Dawn on the Coast, Sunny introduces Dawn to the other 2. Argh. It's either a mistake or a retcon. Tbh I think I prefer the original idea for some reason.
The anniversary chapter made me a little sad too... Dawn was a very well-adjusted kid at 10, and it sucks to know that it goes downhill so fast for her. The more I think about it, the more I understand her decision to move to CA. The SF chapter itself was alright, although I call b.s. on Dawn never feeling an earthquake. I'll admit I'm from California and didn't feel one until I was 15 or so, but I live in Central California and we get far less than southern.
Is it bad that the Fire! chapter just cracked me up? Dawn waking her parents up at midnight for a fire drill, Jeff being the only one to follow it and taking his Game Boy with him (for the record, I agree with him, video games are more important than clothes lol), then saying, "That was fun! Is it my turn to call the fire drill tomorrow night?" LOL. I can't imagine how annoyed Sharon and Jack were, but that makes it even funnier. The fire at the Austins was mentioned as early as Mary Anne Saves the Day, so yay for consistency!
When I was younger, the Sandra chapter made me super uncomfortable and I never saw Dawn the same. On re- read, it still makes me uncomfortable, but I think I can see a 13 year old girl doing this. It's not right, but I think everyone does crappy things. Tbh, I think they should've hid that letter. It was so easy for Dawn to access it, imagine Sandra coming across it and asking her parents about it. Not saying Dawn isn't in the wrong, she absolutely is, but how Sandra's parents went about this makes no sense to me. I feel so bad for Sandra in this book and embarrassed for Dawn. In a way, I'm glad that the BSC lost a client over this (I think it's the only time the BSC lost a client due to bad behavior), but it's just so so convenient that Mrs. Lazar never called Kristy to complain. Or that she never mentioned this to Dr. Johanssen.
The conversation between Dawn and Sunny made me long for a Sunny portrait lol I want to know what Sunny did that she's so ashamed of!
Overall, I like this one better than Stacey's and about the same as Claudia's.
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Post by m0drnmoonlight on Mar 5, 2023 17:41:16 GMT -5
The Sunny chapter was my favorite too, I always liked Sunny and Dawn's friendship. She and her parents sounded like they came right from Woodstock with how they were written XD
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Post by oldmeanie on Mar 6, 2023 13:14:30 GMT -5
The Sunny chapter was my favorite too, I always liked Sunny and Dawn's friendship. She and her parents sounded like they came right from Woodstock with how they were written XD Yup and I love it lol. I'm a hippie at heart (although I'm a bit too high strung I think). |
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Post by m0drnmoonlight on Mar 6, 2023 14:40:09 GMT -5
The Sunny chapter was my favorite too, I always liked Sunny and Dawn's friendship. She and her parents sounded like they came right from Woodstock with how they were written XD Yup and I love it lol. I'm a hippie at heart (although I'm a bit too high strung I think). I did love how weirded out Dawn was at first, with Sunny and her parents dancing on the lawn and how Sunny doesn't watch TV and doesn't have plastic toys! Sunny must have had a real influence on her since Dawn became more like that as she got older. Though the BSC, as a whole, was very anti-TV. |
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Post by oldhickory on Mar 7, 2023 11:29:36 GMT -5
I'm pretty crunchy and I watch tons of tv, haha. It's weird that literally all BSC members had this aversion to tv when all her other boycotts (like junk food or guns) were just proof of her CALIFORNIA-ness.
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