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Post by virgoscorpio on Jan 17, 2012 0:14:48 GMT -5
^ Interesting! I've never heard of that. Can anyone confirm?
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Post by anzuhana on Jan 17, 2012 10:15:14 GMT -5
It's Baby-sitters' Island Adventure that has the checklist with what you pack with you when you go on a trip. Also, attached to it is a checklist of the first 35 books and the first four super specials.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Jan 17, 2012 12:19:52 GMT -5
^ Thanks! I don't remember ever seeing that.
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Post by anzuhana on Jan 17, 2012 15:04:00 GMT -5
It's supposed to be in between pages 122 - 123. Maybe the reason you didn't see it is because the previouus owner of the book (assuming you brough it from someone else) took the postcard out of the book.
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Post by greer on Jan 18, 2012 5:43:56 GMT -5
My copy never had one, either. I think things like postcards and necklaces only come with the first printing of the book.
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Post by starrynight on Jan 18, 2012 19:48:35 GMT -5
Oh yeah, I remember that checklist! I always thought it was kind of odd that it came with the one about the girls getting stuck on an island. Are we supposed to think that they wouldn't have had their adventure if they had packed better? (Now that I think about it...I'm wondering if we're all remembering wrong and the packing list came in SS#2? It would have made more sense for it to be in a book about summer camp...)
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Post by sparklymouse on Jan 18, 2012 20:10:47 GMT -5
Heh. No, I double checked. Island Adventure has the checklist. Winter Vacation has a postcard (it's the same picture as the cover.) Starring the BSC has the holiday card with the girls and the pervy looking Santa. (It's not a postcard. It has the picture on one side and writing on the other. "Season's Readings, Happy Holidays! from Ann M. Martin" or something like that.)
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Post by booboobrewer on Jan 18, 2012 20:18:41 GMT -5
^oh that's right. I think mine is still in the book!
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Post by virgoscorpio on Jan 20, 2012 0:40:05 GMT -5
As a kid, I thought the wedding idea was lame. Do girls really care about weddings so much to want it as an entire SS? Ann loves weddings. But this book isn't too bad. And I think that everyone looks good on the cover.
One of my favourite moments this time around was the part when Mary Anne can't pay attention during the flight's safety lesson and so she says if something happens, she'll just do whatever Kristy does. I just pictured the plane crashing and Mary Anne playing follow the leader with Kristy; it made me chuckle. So is Dawn supposed to be a giant or something? I know MA is short, but when they tried on each others dresses it seemed that Dawn's was big on Mary Anne when they don't look that much different on the cover. Maybe because MA's was a petite size.
I just finished reading BSC in the USA, where John (they made a mistake in this book because isn't his name JACK? Peter, why are you throwing the Johns around? There are already 2 other BSC members whose Dad was John! Anyway, Jack says to MA that he's lost a few friends over his jokes and I could see how that could have happened from reading his humor in this book. Jeff's chapters were funny, especially the part where he wanted to hold up the sign "I'm 10. How old are YOU?" or "Of course I'm growing...I'm a kid!"
Wow these girls giggle and laugh a lot. Even in the bathroom hairspraying their hair? Don't inhale too many fumes, BSC. You might end up like Bellair's Department store and hire an 11 year old black Santa. Doesn't anyone at Bellairs have an elderly relative or retired dad or grandpa who would even do it!?
Mallory calling Ben her boyfriend in this book suddenly struck me as weird. 11 year olds to have serious bf and gf is kind of weird to me, especially when it's Mallory. Sorry, Mal, love you...but I wasn't feeling your love connections in most of the Super Specials (i.e. Sea City). Ben was annoying. They did makeshift plannings for a potential holiday singsong. They couldn't do it the next night...or the next...or the next? Ben's you know what have obviously not dropped yet. Har har.
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Post by anzuhana on Jan 20, 2012 10:46:34 GMT -5
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Post by virgoscorpio on Jan 20, 2012 13:43:44 GMT -5
Thanks! I've seen the thread. Since when is John a nickname for Jack? I think I even said this in the other thread, so you can just ignore it.
Also, I liked how Kristy, MA and Claudia flew out (just the 3 of them). I liked the original Bradford Court girls together.
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Post by anzuhana on Jan 20, 2012 13:55:40 GMT -5
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Post by BuckinghamAlice on Feb 1, 2012 17:21:32 GMT -5
This was one of those books you just have to get through because you're reading the whole series. Not my favorite.
Everyone was obnoxious. I couldn't stop rolling my eyes at MA and Dawn. First the schmaltz made me sick, then the fighting made me laugh derisively. Kristy made me want to reach into the book and pull her ponytail. I wanted to toss the book across the room because of Claudia's stupidity, and don't even get me started on how ridiculous her position as wedding consultant was. Stacey being the replacement bridesmaid was... silly. Dawn thinking MA should be in her father's wedding without discussing it with anyone but her stereotypical dumbass California friends was annoying. Jessi's Santa chapters were boring and predictable.
This book left me with NO confidence in the Barett-Dewitt marriage. All those kids seemed extra obnoxious in this book. If I was Stacey, I'd have charged like triple for having to deal with them.
My favorite part of the book was probably Jeff's chapters. He's normally pretty obnoxious and useless, but at least he had some funny lines in his.
Overall, not my favorite book.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Feb 2, 2012 0:13:41 GMT -5
Overall, not my favorite book. I bet Peter Lerangis is shedding a tear as I type this.
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Post by psychoseal on Feb 2, 2012 12:29:42 GMT -5
The bit that bugged me about this book was Mary Anne at Dawns house in California when she "grabbed her tooth brush and ran downstairs" ... Dawns house is all one storey, what stairs??
That and Suzi Barretts solution to Santa finding her new house - why didn't she just leave him a note?? Why was the plan so complex - and why did it need 3 chapters to explain??
And Claudia as a wedding planner - that was ridiculous too. In fact the whole book was.
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