Amalia
Sitting For The Braddocks
Her Original Point of View
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Post by Amalia on Jun 2, 2006 13:28:08 GMT -5
^ I dunno. I was always curious about her sleeping in the attic. I wonder what kind of dreams she had? I haven't read this in a long time, so I don't remember.
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Post by secondhandshoes on Jun 8, 2006 5:08:11 GMT -5
This is probably one of my favorite BSC books. I love how she found out more about her mom and her mysterious past, haha. The fact that Richard hid all of this from her for so long seems very strange, but then again in a way it doesn't. I mean, we all saw how overyly protective he was at first, so maybe this was another way of him protecting her and showing that he could be both a mother and a father to her? Maybe he felt that telling her about it would make her think less of him or something.
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Post by lovelylemontree on Jun 8, 2006 19:14:02 GMT -5
Who knows why Richard does anything. The man is kind of a freak.
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ktag
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Post by ktag on Jun 9, 2006 4:41:28 GMT -5
^Well apparently he told her they were dead, so yeah. (It was stated in some books that all her grandparents had died around the same time as her mother.)
So now that I've read this, it doesn't quite match up with what was written in the portrait. From the letters at the end of the book, it seemed like the visit was all happy and perfect. In the portrait, not so much. Also, according to the portrait, she went in August so she could go "before school starts." In this book, it was during the school year.
"Our granddaughter will be a farmer's wife someday." Yeah, I wonder why Richard wanted her back all of a sudden.
A few more nitpicks...Why did Charlotte's family have her great-grandmother's letters to her mother (postmarked from Stoneybrook)? Shouldn't it be the other way around? Why wasn't David Michael at the picnic? Abandoned by his parents as usual, I guess. I highly doubt their painted cutouts looked all that great.
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inge
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Post by inge on Jun 23, 2006 5:53:32 GMT -5
Also, the way she looks on the cover is how I always saw her in my head. word! the cover art is great for this book.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2006 23:30:19 GMT -5
I LOVE this mystery. It's definitely my favorite mystery, and one of my fave books all around in the BSC series. I wish I still had my copy of it.
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Post by hitzpink on Sept 30, 2006 10:10:12 GMT -5
Why did Charlotte's family have her great-grandmother's letters to her mother (postmarked from Stoneybrook)? Shouldn't it be the other way around? That bugged me, too! It didn't make sense. Also, I always thought their cardboard cut-outs must have looked awful. There is NO way those things could have looked good, I don't care how "artistic" Claudia is!
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lilafowler
Sitting For The Johanssens
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Post by lilafowler on Sept 30, 2006 15:42:46 GMT -5
This book is my favorite mystery, too, I think because it was the least mystery-like of all of them and didn't involve a pack of middle-schoolers being smarter than the town police force.
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msstock87
Sitting For The Braddocks
Here Comes The Bride!
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Post by msstock87 on Feb 4, 2007 16:52:42 GMT -5
I agree. Maryanne was so pretty on this cover! I always pictured her like that. This mystery really touched me a lot for some reason. It is up there as one of my favorites.
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Post by hitzpink on Feb 7, 2007 10:42:42 GMT -5
I agree, Mary Anne looks great on the cover, I always pictured her looking like that too. The earlier mysteries were my favorites because there were a bunch that were less mystery-like. This one, Mallory and the Ghost Cat, and The Mystery at Claudia's House come to mind.
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starrynight
Sitting For The Kuhns
The Royal Diner of Pizza Express
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Post by starrynight on Feb 14, 2007 14:29:53 GMT -5
When I read "The Fire at Mary Anne's House," the one thing that stuck out in my mind was that she lost the letter she got from her mother in this book. It made me sad.
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Post by aln1982 on Apr 3, 2007 23:49:48 GMT -5
This has always been one of my favorite mysteries - probably because it was one of my 1st BSC books and also because I've always wanted to find some secret hidden somewhere (though nothing as life altering as MA found). I like how Richard's love for MA really seems to show in this one - Elizabeth's description of how he was so happy and smiling pushing baby MA in her stroller made me smile, myself. I also found the scene funny where the club had the paint fight and things ended up such a mess. Rereading, it was strange but I thought I remembered actual text - not just letters - from MA's visit to her Grandma's. Funny what the memory can do...
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starrynight
Sitting For The Kuhns
The Royal Diner of Pizza Express
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Post by starrynight on Apr 4, 2007 17:08:08 GMT -5
^ The same thing happened to me, but then I remembered that what I was thinking of is actually from Mary Anne's portait book.
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Post by aln1982 on Apr 4, 2007 19:24:15 GMT -5
Thanks. I just got MA's Book in the mail today! I'll have to read it now so I can read about her trip to IA. Glad to know I wasn't just imagining it.
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Post by hitzpink on Apr 11, 2007 19:52:05 GMT -5
I've always wanted to find some secret hidden somewhere (though nothing as life altering as MA found). Me too! But what I REALLY wanted to find was a hidden diary, like in Mallory and the Mystery Diary.
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