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Post by booboobrewer on Mar 31, 2009 20:30:23 GMT -5
I knew a Brownie was a camera when I was a kid, and I don't know where I picked that up...I didn't pay attention to the kinds of cameras we had, except for the Polaroid. Watson really seems to trust Kristy with his gadgets; he lends her his Nikon in this book, and in Stacey/Empty House, his binoculars when she and the BSC have the stakeout/sleepover.
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Post by greer on Mar 31, 2009 21:40:29 GMT -5
^I knew about Brownies too but no idea how or where. I didn't realize that they existed up until the sixties, though, and pictured Mary Anne carrying around some big box from 1926 or something.
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tiff85
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Post by tiff85 on Mar 31, 2009 21:58:53 GMT -5
The Brownies had been around for a lonnnngggg time!
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celaeno
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Post by celaeno on Jan 13, 2010 12:18:20 GMT -5
Honestly, I thought the lady with the baby carriage would still be involved, she was meeting him and putting money into the carriage. Me too! I thought the baby carriage was being used to haul money. But my biggest gripe is this: what kind of family are they that people just open a closed bathroom door without knocking first! Claudia shouldn't need a sign. A closed bathroom door means do not enter! You knock and wait to make sure there's nobody inside. They must be walking in on each other all the time! ITA! Janine walked in on Claud and ruined her film, like, twice in one week. Janine must constantly be walking in on Claud when she's sitting on the toilet! It bugged me when Claudia and Mary Anne take the kids to the bank, and she explains to Charlotte how the safety deposit boxes work, and then she says something like "I learned that by coming to the bank with my dad." She actually learned it in #33, Claudia and the Great Search! It bugged me even more when it turned out to be crucial to the end. I actually liked the subplot (making a scrapbook for Dawn) in this one.
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oldhickory
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Post by oldhickory on Jan 13, 2010 13:12:57 GMT -5
this is what i think. if claudia can see the figure who ruins her film, how could she possibly mistake a teenage girl for a grown man? claudia is described as average height, and i can imagine janine is probably average height too. and claudia sees janine everyday -- she should be used to what she looks like. i know if my sister snuck up on me in the dark i would recognize her without even seeing her face. mr. z (i couldn't possibly spell his name without looking it up) would have to be taller than a teenage girl, or else they would have made such a big deal how short he is. and especially considering janine had already walked in on claudia before, i am amazed that claudia couldn't piece it all together.
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Jan 17, 2010 17:02:00 GMT -5
^ Maybe she was thinking so much about criminals and stuff that she kind of expected to see them around every corner? It's been awhile since I read this one, so I can't remember exactly how jumpy Claud was at this point.
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Post by Kylie90210 on Feb 14, 2010 21:51:28 GMT -5
A few things I found off about this book.
Mary Anne wanted a copy of her picture? Of her with her hands covering her face? Um, why?
This was a little too easily solved for me. Really.
Srg Johnson let the girls go into the room to question the witness because Kristy gave him a look? WTF, isn't that illegal or something?
I knew Janine was the one who opened the door, ruining the pics, but I had flashbacks to that SM where there is a fire in the Kishi's yard.
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supprazz
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Post by supprazz on Feb 28, 2010 10:38:22 GMT -5
Maybe she wanted it cause teenagers like pictures like that
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Post by anzuhana on Jan 5, 2011 14:54:58 GMT -5
I did like the chapter 2 in this book. I can't believe that Janine didn't tell Claudia right away that it was her who opened the bathroom door and accidentally ruining the photos. I thought that she would've told her right away instead of waiting a while before telling her.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Feb 20, 2011 18:33:38 GMT -5
I couldn't even finish re-reading this book again. I just couldn't get into it this time...was blegh.
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Post by zoar3 on Mar 2, 2011 22:56:56 GMT -5
^Aw, only so many big projects for Dawn, you can take, Virgo? I liked when Claud/Stacey and Becca, Char, and Jamie went downtown in the beginning. That outing sounded fun and it was cool to "see" two sitters team up with only a few kids and semi randomly. The idea of "A Day in the Life of Stoneybrook" should have been more the plot than the subplot. ITA about Janine, she really should have told Claudia much sooner.
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Post by zoar3 on Jul 4, 2011 20:12:21 GMT -5
I just read through this thread since I'm re-reading and was wondering is this Sgt. Johnson's first book or was he introduced in "Mystery Money?" Either way, no way, he should have allowed the BSC in the interrogation room while the suspect was present. Too bad the shadow lake mystery had not taken place yet. The one where Karl Tate's lunatic son hunts down the BSC while his dad does likewise in Stoneybrook. I say that because that was where they regretted having their pictures taken in (Disappearing Dogs). In this book, they let the "criminal" see them!
Oh, ITA about Claudia not giving her family the chance to know her. I wish her photography had continued, that was much more interesting to me than just hearing how talented she was in all forms of art.
Lastly, didn't the BSC have the oddest groupings of kids sometimes? Jamie Newton, Nicky, and Vanessa are a group for the pictures as are Charlotte, Suzi, Buddy, and Becca.
Editing to add that this was Sgt. Johnson's first BSC book. He may have been mentioned in Mystery Money, (was he)? but this his first "case" with the BSC. I am almost done re-reading and can't believe (I'd forgotten) that right off the bat he "secretly" reveals to the girls that Jim Zibreksi is a suspect. One "funny" thing is both their first names are Jim.
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Post by wiggir13 on Jul 9, 2011 22:26:46 GMT -5
Ok so I found the quote in the book humorous just b/c of this board, but they were staking out the bank and said "we can do things that normal teenage girls do, not sure what that is...."
Hahaha so funny. I must say that if one more book has a friggin project that deals with missing Dawn, I may scream
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Post by zoar3 on Jul 9, 2011 22:47:01 GMT -5
^You and me both, Wiggirl except we know there will be many more MA "missing Dawn" moments. I still say it was odd how much Buddy missed her. That quote is funny. The BSC members, normal? Never. One thing I really did like about this book were all the restaurant scenes both with and without the kids. I wish we had gotten to read about (I'm blanking on who, just remember Claudia, Buddy, and Suzi) having lunch at the Rosebud Cafe after they took their "Day" pictures. I also, really would have liked reading about the picnic at Matt's house for his friends from school. I did think it was funny how Nicky said "Why would Dawn want too see so many pictures of kids she doesn't even know?" Nicky was wanting more photos of the triplets' haircuts to be included instead.
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Post by wiggir13 on Jul 9, 2011 23:56:03 GMT -5
I love any food reference. It was nice to see them eat somewhere other than pizza express and rosebud too. I loved how they followed the banker into that restaurant and then sat listening to a boring conversation.
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