Lauren
Sitting For The Newtons
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Post by Lauren on Jul 10, 2007 23:39:43 GMT -5
I'd forgotten about the Westing Game too. I used to really love that book and From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil Frankweiler( I think that's the correct title.)
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Amalia
Sitting For The Braddocks
Her Original Point of View
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Post by Amalia on Jul 11, 2007 1:48:00 GMT -5
The actual game was clever to me but what I liked about that book (Westing Game) was the characters.
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Post by booboobrewer on Jul 16, 2007 21:04:15 GMT -5
I really wanted dawn to be a spy. Darn it. How are the kids in this book? Well-behaved redheads. Mature-sounding, like many other Stoneybrook kids (although they're not from there originally, just their moms). And nope, not mentioned again, aln...the families were only in town for awhile. The house and its grounds sounded pretty cool though. Just reread and there is a part I do really like I forgot about--all of chapter 14, when Dawn holds Family Day. Sounded like fun...breakfast, shopping, lunch, pizza dinner, presents...
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Post by aln1982 on Aug 9, 2007 23:26:57 GMT -5
^ I also like family day, especially reading about the kids. ;D Finally reread and I didn’t care all that much about the mystery part of the book – didn’t dislike it but was basically indifferent – but really enjoyed reading about getting the two families of kids together. I can see how this would have been really uncomfortable, though, as I can relate. I “met” two of my little cousins (dad’s half brother’s daughters) when I was 13 and they were pretty little and I felt so bad for them when my “grandma” (quotes because I don’t really consider her that ;D) said “This is your cousin. Give her a hug.” They looked so scared. This was what I kept thinking of when I read about the Keats and Cornell kids. I am glad now when I do (rarely, though) keep in contact with my cousins.
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lark
New To Stoneybrook
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Post by lark on Sept 26, 2007 13:04:31 GMT -5
I just finished reading this book and have a few comments:
First of all, that family is totally messed up. They thought their brother was dead, but he wasn't? What the heck?
Totally figured out one of the portraits was the clue very early in the book, and I am no good at figuring these kind of things out.
This book was SO corny in parts. One of the sisters says something to Dawn like, "Thank you for helping us find our real inheritance...each other." And at the end, Dawn comments that she will be moving all of Stoneybrook out to CA with her, in her heart. Ugh! I can't take it!
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Post by greer on Sept 26, 2007 15:45:04 GMT -5
lark, if i had read this back in the past ten years, i probably would have thrown up a little bit at those last parts.
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Post by booboobrewer on Sept 26, 2007 19:43:17 GMT -5
Yeah, this book definitely brought the cheese.
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Post by aln1982 on Sept 26, 2007 23:27:58 GMT -5
I don't know, I kind of like the sappy, "roll-your-eyes" moments like the ending of this one where everything is tied up nicely with "thanks for being so great". Maybe it's the whole unrealistic nature of that which I enjoy since it's different from real life. I can't believe I just realized when I went to find the picture for my signature that some of the kids are actually on the cover. I guess I was always just so distracted by Dawn who kind of appears to me to be dusting or something ;D
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Post by sugarmonkey on Nov 4, 2007 19:41:46 GMT -5
I totally figured out the portrait was at least important the moment that it was described in detail and more info about the other portraits were given. When the second clue was found out I totally figured it out. Other than that this was a good mystery. I liked the family fued and the turn the will into a game thing (never read the Westing Game).
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Post by booboobrewer on Nov 4, 2007 21:39:08 GMT -5
^I recommend it. It's great!
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courtky10
Sitting For The Johanssens
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Post by courtky10 on Jun 22, 2008 20:56:59 GMT -5
^Yes, I like it too.
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