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Post by wiggir13 on Oct 17, 2011 21:51:40 GMT -5
I agree with your impression of Abby. I have always thought she is insecure and has to make fun of others to make herself feel better.
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oldhickory
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Post by oldhickory on Oct 18, 2011 23:26:24 GMT -5
i'm not the right person to be arguing this since abby is my favorite sitter, but she never gave any indication (at least none that i remember) that she enjoyed putting other people down. i think it's honestly just her sense of humor. people's quirks make them interesting. all the girls take jabs at each other's quirks from time to time, and none of them got upset when the charges put on the bsc follies.
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scrounge
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Post by scrounge on Jan 9, 2013 14:52:38 GMT -5
The Pike triplets and their poems and rap about snot and puke were so gross. The sitters helping kids write stories and poems was pretty boring.
I wish Miriam and Daniel hadn't moved so far away. I think it would have been good for Abby and Anna and their mother to have some more family close by. I do understand why Miriam wanted to go stay with her parents, though.
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Jan 17, 2013 21:26:22 GMT -5
I agree with your impression of Abby. I have always thought she is insecure and has to make fun of others to make herself feel better. I always saw Abby as one of the least insecure sitters. She seems to have a pretty good sense of who she is.
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Post by zoar3 on Jan 17, 2013 22:10:53 GMT -5
^That is one very cool thing about our board, that we each have our own impressions and can share. I enjoy so much thinking about characters, even those I normally don't care for in a different or larger way thanks to all of you. That said, Oldhickory, my utmost respect to you. Abby just has always struck me the wrong way. I've shared before that my own JHS years were awful. I could easily see my younger self as being someone Abby impersonated
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charjo
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Post by charjo on Jan 18, 2013 22:27:14 GMT -5
I always saw Abby as one of the least insecure sitters. She seems to have a pretty good sense of who she is. Yeah, I always thought Abby's jokes were just because that's her sense of humor. But I grew up on Long Island and all of my friends have the same sort of sarcastic/punny humor.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Jan 19, 2013 1:08:28 GMT -5
I must read this one soon. I always remember the February-esque-ness of this. And how the 1st chapter opens up with Abby running outside in the winter, snow, etc. and the Wheeze Wagon pulls up beside her.
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Post by wenonah4th on Jan 20, 2013 15:10:32 GMT -5
They weren't necessarily going to stay that far away permanently. (Although my cynical side looks at my sister-in-law who's never lived on her own at 33 and has 2 sons with different fathers and says Miriam will be permanently with her parents.)
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Post by rachel817 on May 29, 2013 11:47:26 GMT -5
Is it just my imagination, or do a good number of Abby books take place in February (ironically since she states more than once that she hates February)? I LOVED the idea of this book, because I was (okay, AM) always fantasizing about finding a baby on the door step and keeping it. Sadly I felt like the end was anti-climatic, plus they didn't even get to keep the baby LOL. I also noticed the Mallory/Stacey mix-up.
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Post by virgoscorpio on May 29, 2013 15:03:29 GMT -5
^ It's not your imagination I think I might have mentioned this in a previous post somewhere. A LOT of the Abby books are winter (January/February) books -- Mystery Baby, Secret Society, Abby's Twin, Best Kid Ever, Un-Valentine ...
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oldhickory
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Post by oldhickory on Jun 1, 2013 8:26:35 GMT -5
I must read this one soon. I always remember the February-esque-ness of this. And how the 1st chapter opens up with Abby running outside in the winter, snow, etc. and the Wheeze Wagon pulls up beside her. without a doubt, this chapter always makes me feel like a lazy blob. i hate running in front of people and if a school bus turned onto the road where i was running, i would totally run through a yard or something to get away. or most likely i would not be running at all. and i'm sure it's totally dumb that i am jealous of a fake character's dedication to exercise but of course i am.
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Jun 3, 2013 19:31:56 GMT -5
^ I don't like to work out in front of people, period. You're not alone.
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Post by Honeybee on Jun 4, 2013 0:52:51 GMT -5
^ Same here. I don't want people to see me, working out. Not even my family. I wait when I'm alone or do them at night time. I know, they said, makes you stay wake. But, for me. When I do exercise. Makes me tired. I fall asleep.
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Post by zoar3 on Sept 23, 2014 14:44:36 GMT -5
I reread the other half of this mystery last night. I had started it over the weekend and it just was boring. I was thinking it should have been more told as a non Mystery. A story for us of the Stevenson family connecting again. Abby is my least favorite sitter but it would have been an interesting and completely new storyline had she and Anna ever gone to visit their grandparents and Mirriam and Daniel in Florida. I know we hear from them again in Abby in Wonderland while on vacation but a regular visit would have been cool, too. I enjoy when grandparents are more involved. I still, all these years later, feel as though Erin the nanny was somehow involved or maybe I just wanted to meet baby EJ her nephew. He and Daniel sounded adorable and very much loved too I just realized something on the name EJ, wasn't that the name of the young girl who was causing trouble in Logan's Story? She was being mean to the neighborhood kids because she was unhappy? I did like reading the kids poems and felt badly for Vanessa when she felt her poet status was being threatened. I do love Vanessa's poem's so funny, her brothers gross poems I can do without!
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Post by booboobrewer on Sept 3, 2016 12:16:42 GMT -5
Reading this again eight years later (oh my Lord) my opinion has changed. I enjoyed it a lot. Abby is very likable and I find the story of Rachel and Miriam so sad. I can't imagine being estranged from my sister like that. I smiled at Abby mentioning how fun it would be for the BSC to take a trip to Florida. Daniel adds some much needed light in the Stevensons' lives When Kristy and Nannie come over when Abby first finds the baby, the image of Nannie cooing and Kristy briskly marching towards the phone to call Sgt. Johnson, I found really funny.
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