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Post by CharlotteTJohanssen on Jul 7, 2021 7:59:24 GMT -5
For goodness sake, Logan’s home wasn’t unstable. Older siblings interest me…Janine, Charlie. Why would Logan’s home be unstable?! If anything they were a relatively normal family. Anyway agree on the older siblings. I love that random chapter with Charlie in graduation days.
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Post by oldhickory on Jul 7, 2021 8:49:26 GMT -5
AMM made the Brunos a normal family. Mary Anne to the Rescue was written by Lerangis, who is the most dramatic ghostwriter of the bunch.
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Post by booboobrewer on Jul 7, 2021 13:14:03 GMT -5
For goodness sake, Logan’s home wasn’t unstable. Older siblings interest me…Janine, Charlie. Why would Logan’s home be unstable?! If anything they were a relatively normal family. Responded to the post above me Agree with you.
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Post by cnj on Jul 7, 2021 14:10:17 GMT -5
AMM made the Brunos a normal family. Mary Anne to the Rescue was written by Lerangis, who is the most dramatic ghostwriter of the bunch. Sorry, I don't agree. Outward appearances can be deceiving. While Lerangis may be "dramatic," it was not far off the mark. While I'm not claiming that the Brunos "hated" each other or were totally dysfunctional, they were far from a perfect, completely happy family.
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Post by CharlotteTJohanssen on Jul 7, 2021 15:19:04 GMT -5
Why would Logan’s home be unstable?! If anything they were a relatively normal family. Responded to the post above me Agree with you. Ahh okay, I don’t see that persons posts to know. I was reading that Ann’s grandfather and uncle are named Lyman, I thought it was sweet how she named Logan’s dad after them.
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Post by cnj on Jul 7, 2021 15:57:35 GMT -5
Also, a clue that the Brunos were not in great shape was that the books rarely mentioned the Brunos joining community events and also, there really were not many instances of the BSC babysitting Kerry or Hunter as mentioned in this thread. Also...I wonder why neither Louise or Lyman addressed Hunter's serious health issues? Mary Anne's sensitive heart hurt to see Hunter suffering so much from his severe allergies and his asthma. Didn't the Bruno parents try to have Hunter in for allergy shots and medical treatment to at least alleviate his symptoms? Abby had her allergies, but she was not nearly in as bad as shape as Hunter seemed to be. Those are my thoughts...and suspicions...of the Brunos.
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Post by booboobrewer on Jul 7, 2021 16:55:38 GMT -5
Also, a clue that the Brunos were not in great shape was that the books rarely mentioned the Brunos joining community events and also, there really were not many instances of the BSC babysitting Kerry or Hunter as mentioned in this thread. Plenty of families are not that social in their community. Does not mean a thing. Logan is a sitter…he could sit for his own siblings. Because Logan’s an associate and a peripheral character? Why would we hear about his little brother’s medical issues? Same goes for Shannon—who incidentally does have clear family issues. Okay… His allergies were a normal part of his kid life and no one “hurt” to see him like that.
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Post by cnj on Jul 7, 2021 17:27:23 GMT -5
Plenty of families are not that social in their community. Does not mean a thing. Could be the case...but I still get the feeling that the Brunos were not free of issues. Not saying that they were horrible or a complete mess, but something tells me that they were not issue-free. Just from reading about the Brunos, then reading a book centered on the Spier-Schafers or the Thomas-Brewers or even the McGills, I get a different vibe reading about them. Because Logan's an associate and a peripheral character? Why would we hear about his little brother's medical issues? True that Logan is a peripheral character, so no there won't be too much on Hunter's health issues or even on the Brunos' family issues. Same goes for Shannon - who incidentally does have clear family issues. True, she does...I wouldn't be surprised to either see her folks divorced soon or one of them run away. Okay...His allergies were a normal part of his kid life and no one "hurt" to see him like that. Sensitive Mary Anne did. Even Abby's allergies were never as bad as Hunter's. In almost all the books with Hunter, his nose is stopped up all the time and he's sniffling almost constantly...the allergy-speak where Hunter can't even pronounce certain words clearly... Barry Add instead of Mary Anne and all. I think Hunter needs more medical help than he seems to be getting in the books. In contrast, Abby is only sneezy at times and only has a runny nose occasionally, not all the time. It's sort of akin to two people with diabetes, another common disorder, eg, Stacey and Kristy's cousin Robin. If say, Stacey was thin, pale and was collapsing every week with low or high blood sugar and was constantly lethargic, but it was written off as just a "normal" part of her life then in contrast, Robin rarely collapsed, had healthy coloring and regular blood sugar levels most of the time with only an occasional high reading. That would make me wonder if Stacey was getting the proper medical care and it would seem rather suspicious. When I see the contrast between two people with essentially the same medical condition, I really can't help but wonder...in this case with Abby and Hunter. IMO, Abby's allergies seem far better controlled than Hunter's.
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Post by CharlotteTJohanssen on Jul 8, 2021 20:20:28 GMT -5
booboobrewer; I did check the wiki and it cited that Mr Bruno is a member of the Stoneybrook Chamber of Commerce softball league in Logan Bruno, Boy Baby-sitter. He participated in community stuff.
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Post by booboobrewer on Jul 8, 2021 21:23:58 GMT -5
Very interesting!
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Post by oldhickory on Jul 9, 2021 9:25:01 GMT -5
I could be wrong, but aren't chamber of commerce people usually small business owners and things like that? I think of them particularly as being from small towns and wanting to to drum up traffic for local places. So even though I don't know much about him, knowing that he was with their softball league makes me feel like Lyman owned a small company. Backbone of the economy and all that.
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Post by cnj on Jul 9, 2021 11:49:48 GMT -5
I could be wrong, but aren't chamber of commerce people usually small business owners and things like that? Often, but not always. And we really don't know how heavily Lyman was involved in chamber of commerce affairs. The Bruno family has quite a few mysteries that we will never find out, that we can only guess at. I think of them particularly as being from small towns and wanting to to drum up traffic for local places. Not necessarily true...there are many small businesses in cities and large towns as well. I live in NYC and a few of my neighbors are owners of small businesses and some of them are in our local chamber of commerce as well. So even though I don't know much about him, knowing that he was with their softball league makes me feel like Lyman owned a small company. Backbone of the economy and all that. So do lots of big-town and city people. True that many small companies are the backbone of many ecomonies, but Lyman was not one of those who was any huge backbone of Stoneybrook's economy. I think Lyman was just one of many, perhaps thousands of small business owners in Stoneybrook. While the Brunos were certainly not total recluses, they were also not huge pillars of the community sorts either. And as I stated...while Stoneybrook is not a huge metropolis city, it's not any tiny one-horse Mayberry town either. When Mary Anne visits her grandmum for the first time in Mary Anne's portrait book, she gets a taste of true small-town life in Maynard, Iowa. To Mary Anne, the everyone-knows-everyone sort of town is alien to her and at first, she's a bit creeped out and uncomfortable by it, especially when the Maynard residents fawn over her. She has a quite a bit of culture shock of how different it is from Stoneybrook, especially when Verna's neighbors refer to Mary Anne as the "granddaughter from the city." Ditto Karen's experience in Karen's Plane Ride. Karen at first finds her grandparents' small-town life rather alien and very different from Stoneybrook. Both Mary Anne and Karen do end up enjoying their visits with their small-town residing grandparents, but are happy to return to their large town of Stoneybrook.
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Post by CharlotteTJohanssen on Jul 9, 2021 18:13:12 GMT -5
Well now I wanna read a whole book about the Bruno family, they seem like they'd be cute.
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Post by cnj on Jul 9, 2021 19:50:34 GMT -5
I'd actually like to read some on the Brunos also...lots of mysteries in that family. 😁😁😁
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