oldhickory
Sitting For The Arnolds
Heather Loves Boys and Gym
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Post by oldhickory on Jul 18, 2019 10:36:42 GMT -5
Please do ask! It's driving me crazy that I can't find it. And greer, it definitely could have been someone else but up until a few days ago when I started looking for it, I was 1000% sure it was her.
Sorry for the quick edit, but I decided to look again and I think I found it. It wasn't Reba, it was LeAnn Rimes and Bernadette Peters! There was a country singer and a redhead and I somehow got them confused, haha. It's called Holiday in Your Heart.
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Post by booboobrewer on Jul 18, 2019 15:46:08 GMT -5
YES I saw that one! I knew it was a winter film. Awesome.
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Post by wistfuldreamer86 on Jan 27, 2020 16:26:25 GMT -5
Really don't have much to add about this one that hasn't been mentioned before. The weirdest part of the book, for me, was Jessi being left alone with her siblings while her parents were away all weekend. She's only 11! I was probably in college before I ever stayed spent the night alone. Other stuff was far fetched but that was the worst for me, lol.
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swizzles
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Post by swizzles on Sept 11, 2020 8:05:31 GMT -5
Just re-read this today. I’m 33 and this book made me have a slight existential crisis because it made me realise I have never stopped to think about what a ‘desert island’ is, even though I’ve casually listened to the Desert Island Discs Podcast for years. A desert island has nothing to do with deserts on islands and originally referred to the deserted nature of the island. So why isn’t it a deserted island instead?
I realise this is not the takeaway from the book, but to be fair, there are already 19 pages of comments dissecting everything...
I did love Mary Anne’s afterwords - they were almost Emily Dickinson-esque: I thought I lost you and therefore lost me too (I’m paraphrasing).
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cnj
Sitting For The Papadakis's
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Post by cnj on Jun 22, 2021 23:39:20 GMT -5
Really don't have much to add about this one that hasn't been mentioned before. The weirdest part of the book, for me, was Jessi being left alone with her siblings while her parents were away all weekend. She's only 11! I was probably in college before I ever stayed spent the night alone. Other stuff was far fetched but that was the worst for me, LOL. That was a bit far-fetched also, but I think most high schoolers are old enough to spend one night without parents as long as they have nearby neighbors to reach in any emergency. You were an adult in uni before you had the chance to have your parents away for one night...? But agreed that middle school is a bit too young to be left alone overnight.
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livvy
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Post by livvy on Feb 26, 2022 5:47:18 GMT -5
Who in their right mind would let a four year old sail with a thirteen year old even though they have sailing experience? So much can go wrong and it did.
And Jessis parents were wrong letting an eleven year old home alone all weekend with just her and Squirt. I'm with Aunt Cecilia with this one.
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Post by fernmariposa919 on Feb 14, 2023 21:44:54 GMT -5
I can't believe the Newtons would let their four-year-old go sailing with a couple of thirteen-year-olds. Terribe, terrible parenting there. I'm also surprised Claudia and Dawn invited him; I would think they would be nervous about having a four year old with them. I talk about that (and more!) in my thoughts about this book: thebookshelfofsara.blogspot.com/2021/02/shipwrecked-castaways.html
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Post by oldmeanie on Mar 9, 2023 13:47:26 GMT -5
I can't believe the Newtons would let their four-year-old go sailing with a couple of thirteen-year-olds. Terribe, terrible parenting there. I'm also surprised Claudia and Dawn invited him; I would think they would be nervous about having a four year old with them. I talk about that (and more!) in my thoughts about this book: thebookshelfofsara.blogspot.com/2021/02/shipwrecked-castaways.htmlI liked this one too. Logan and Bart were grade-A assholes. I think it's actually in character for Logan (referencing his behavior in Search for Tigger), but it felt very out of left field for Bart (he doesn't come across as an not a very nice person at all otherwise aside from not stopping his team from teasing the Krushers). I also HATED Ed McGill in this. Considering he is an adult, I think he behaved the worst. I think this book made me hate him tbh. I like that Claudia and especially Dawn get more chapters. It makes their stay in the island feel more in-depth and three search chapters don't feel shoehorned in. I love (most of) the Super Specials, but one flaw in them is that, with each character generally getting 3 chapters, some of the plots feel underdeveloped (the early ones handled this better... the later ones, particularly the Sea City one, really don't). This one, despite being so freaking unrealistic and random (Claudia and Dawn being really great at boating is seriously out of left field. It makes sense for Dawn's character actually, but with Claud I'm like... what?), actually flowed pretty well in my opinion. I feel absolutely awful for Jamie. The poor kid. I've never had strep (*knock on wood*), but due to allergies I am very susceptible to sore throats, and they are miserable. I can't imagine dealing with aches AND fever without adequate food and heating (at least he had water). Good lord. Since he was getting over being sick and is so young, it's just beyond bonkers that the Newtons let him go at all. And the weirdest thing about this book is that there isn't much of an aftermath. This kind of event can be traumatizing and some of the kids would end up in counseling to deal with the trauma, especially poor Jamie. This book is in fact mentioned at least three times (in Jessi's Baby-sitter, Mary Anne v Logan, amd Snowbound), but this really should have been a defining moment in their lives. In later books, it's like AMM and the ghosties realized that this story was ridiculous and they, like, retcon it not happening at all. You'd think that Dawn or Claud would have flashbacks to Nine o Clock Island (I like this name a lot for some reason) in the Sea City Super Special when they're stranded again. And in Everything Changes (which I believe AMM herself wrote), when Claud is on that island in Maine, she straight up says, "I've never been stuck on an island before." Girl, yes you have, and you freaking ruled when you were there. It's just so weird! I guess psychologically they might have been so traumatized that they blocked it out, but like... ALL of them? Come on! I guess in regards to the kids, we're supposed to believe that Dawn and Claudia are such world-class baby-sitters that they prevented it from being too traumatic.
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oldhickory
Sitting For The Arnolds
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Post by oldhickory on Mar 10, 2023 10:15:02 GMT -5
Never considered that. The kids actually never talk about it again. Wouldn't you expect them to brag about it at school?
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Post by oldmeanie on Mar 14, 2023 14:23:51 GMT -5
Never considered that. The kids actually never talk about it again. Wouldn't you expect them to brag about it at school? Right? Or other kids to ask about it (I would have!)? I guess they couldn't reference it too much, but you'd think it would come up more often. That's why I'm wondering if it's kind of a soft retcon, like they realized how ridiculous the plot is so they're trying to pretend it never happened lol.
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Post by booklover85 on Apr 15, 2024 18:47:01 GMT -5
I finished rereading it a couple of days ago, and I still love it despite the plot being very unlikely in real life.
I liked Claudia in it. It's very rare for her to take charge like that. I wished that the ghostwriters would have kept the street smarts part of her I'm subsequent books.
As annoying as Aunt Cecelia is, she had the right to freak out. The Ramsay's are pretty irresponsible for leaving their eleven year old daughter in charge of their infant son.
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Post by oldmeanie on Apr 17, 2024 12:50:23 GMT -5
I finished rereading it a couple of days ago, and I still love it despite the plot being very unlikely in real life. I liked Claudia in it. It's very rare for her to take charge like that. I wished that the ghostwriters would have kept the street smarts part of her I'm subsequent books. As annoying as Aunt Cecelia is, she had the right to freak out. The Ramsay's are pretty irresponsible for leaving their eleven year old daughter in charge of their infant son. You know what's crazy about the Ramsey situation? At least according to Google, there's no law in Connecticut about a minimum age to leave your children alone overnight. I totally thought it would have been illegal. Still agree that it's very irresponsible, though.
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oldhickory
Sitting For The Arnolds
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Post by oldhickory on Apr 17, 2024 14:33:35 GMT -5
There's a big spectrum between illegal and dumb, haha. It made for a compelling story though. Who else could've gotten that storyline if not Jessi? Of the 13yo sitters, only Kristy has younger siblings at home, and I could see Charlie being allowed to watch them overnight. But does it lose the drama if someone else was in charge? How great would it be if Lisa and Seth found out Charlie let Karen and Andrew go sailing and they got lost at sea? The angst would be delicious.
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