macca
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Post by macca on May 2, 2006 21:32:14 GMT -5
^ Mallory often stands up for herself and it's surprising. She didn't let the BSC push her around much in Hello Mallory. Go Mal!
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jen
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Post by jen on May 3, 2006 4:55:29 GMT -5
I don't think Mallory has a problem about standing up for herself (except for the whole disastrous Spaz Girl thing). It's just more that she's such a dork
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macca
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Post by macca on May 3, 2006 20:20:36 GMT -5
^ usually the eleven yr old Mallorys among us are insecure and easy to push around. Glad they didn't play up that stereotype too much. Mallory could give the smackdown with the best of 'em.
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Post by greer on May 11, 2006 17:31:13 GMT -5
I am really confused by the fact they spent 2 weeks in nyc. In Get Well Soon, Mallory!, Mallory mentions that NYC is close enough that they can just call it "the city." The book made it seem like none of them had ever been to new york before, when it was certainly close enough for field trips and family day trips. In Welcome Home, Mary Anne, Dawn, Sunny, and Mary Anne easily sneak off for the day. I mean, you can easily take the Connecticut to NY commuter train. There's even a line CALLED the stamford line that goes from the city to westchester to connecticut. I mean, it's a very easy and relatively cheap journey. I just don't understand their excitement, given that they live in Connecticut.
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Amalia
Sitting For The Braddocks
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Post by Amalia on May 12, 2006 3:50:53 GMT -5
^ Me neither. I mean, they could just up and go to New York and be back before the afternoon. I mean, if it were really that far away then it would have cost quite a bundle. At least more than a couple of babysitters can afford on a spur-of-the-moment thing. Personally, I think it is just because of the glitz in comparison to Stonybrook, so it didn't matter the distance between the two places.
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wanderingfrog
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Post by wanderingfrog on May 12, 2006 10:46:29 GMT -5
Dawn's never portrayed as a chicken anywhere else, though. She did seem a bit OOC in this book. It wasn't just in this book. She was also ridiculously afraid of everything in the first BSC trip to New York in #18 Stacey's Mistake. (OMG, alligators in the sewers!) But I agree with you that it's OOC -- she's not a chicken the rest of the time and it doesn't seem realistic that she'd be so afraid of NYC.
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Amalia
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Post by Amalia on May 12, 2006 14:58:44 GMT -5
^ Wasn't she spooked in Shadow Lake when they were on that island? I haven't read it in a while, so I don't remember.
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ktag
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Post by ktag on May 12, 2006 18:32:29 GMT -5
Well, yes, Dawn has a thing for ghosts. But unless she thinks New York is haunted...it's probably not connected.
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Amalia
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Post by Amalia on May 13, 2006 2:40:47 GMT -5
Oh, oops, I referring to the quote that the quote above me was referring to. Sorry. I took that quote out of context.
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msstock87
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Post by msstock87 on Jun 11, 2006 0:35:27 GMT -5
I must agree that Claudia was really rude to Mallory in this book. I have seen a lot of people in the past make fun of Mallory, and I understand she can be a bit annoying, but I do like her, she is a dork, kind of like me. she seems like the underdog and I have to cheer for the underdog.
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macca
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Post by macca on Jun 11, 2006 1:38:29 GMT -5
^ I'm with you there (on the underdog thing)
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Post by fairy3lf2 on Jun 27, 2006 16:51:29 GMT -5
Claudia's letter at the back of the book is on the same page as Alistaire Harrington's, who is seven. Did anybody else notice a definate similarity in spelling and grammar?
Alistaire's:
Deer Mary Ann and Stacy, We are back in Englund. It is nice. I licked New Yurk. I rememberized the names of your freinds. Rowena licked the toy store. Love, Alistaire
Claudia's:
My New York dairy is finished. I showed it to mom and dad and Janine. They thought it was grate. Mom even thought my speling had imporved but I an not so sure. Claudia Kishi
I wonder if it was intentional. Speaking of the Harringtons, what did you guys think of them? I loved them when I first read the book but I'm not so sure now. They seem too much like the stereotypical posh English kids. Sometimes they were really cute though, like Rowena saying her balloon is her pet dog, Travis Balloon.
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Post by sotypical42483 on Jun 27, 2006 18:06:52 GMT -5
Rowena and Alistaire were so sweet and cute. I really liked them. And their names are so cute!! Love it.
One thing I'll NEVER understand about BSC SS's - whyyyy do they always have random kids/people they are exchanging mail with when they get home?! Alistaire, for example, and then in BSC in the USA, Jessi sends a letter to that lady she met at the Plantation... like, you met a person for 20 minutes so now you're pen pals? I don't get it.
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Post by hitzpink on Jun 27, 2006 18:27:29 GMT -5
^Yeah, that is really weird. Plus, those people are never mentioned again. But even though the letters are pointless, I've always liked reading them.
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lisa
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Post by lisa on Jul 3, 2006 7:20:21 GMT -5
^ It's not a real SS without all the one-book penpals writing letters. By the end of the book, you just need them
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