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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Feb 2, 2009 16:47:46 GMT -5
^ Oh man, it was like a life goal of mine at eight years old to get a Unicorn sweatshirt like Karen's ;D. Then I read Mallory and the Trouble With Twins and wanted Carolyn's moon and star sweatshirt instead. I guess I decided that unicorns were out and moons and stars were in ;D.
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Post by wenonah4th on Feb 9, 2009 7:20:51 GMT -5
LOL!
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Post by firecausesburns on Feb 21, 2009 22:29:24 GMT -5
I just spent way too long trying to figure out who was who on the cover, and was eventually stumped by the lack of identical twins - Terri and Tammy were identical, right?
There's a pretty nice illustration of Karen trying on a pair of glasses. When I was littler, for some reason I thought there were no arms on the glasses, just the frames, and she was holding them to her face. I was kind of confused when I got my glasses at age 7 to find that the display frames all had arms.
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Post by supprazz on Mar 3, 2009 20:58:27 GMT -5
They changed the "tell him he's adopted" part? When did that happen? probably in the early 90's, I don't understand why that was changed till this day.
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Mar 4, 2009 16:52:50 GMT -5
^ Yeah me neither, especially since that's tame compared to a bunch of other things she could've written.
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Post by tiff85 on Apr 2, 2009 18:49:09 GMT -5
Yeah sweetvalley girl, I always wanted a unicorn shirt just like Karen. They seemed to be so rare though.
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Post by Honeybee on Sept 6, 2010 22:47:37 GMT -5
I re read this yesterday. I like this book. It was nice Kristy took Karen to the library, show her different characters, wear glasses. I wear glasses since, I was 6. I tried contacts. But, I never really like them. I'm both. I'm far sighted & near sighted. My lens is a strong prescription. (Lens very expensive.) My glasses are ready. (Waiting to be picked up.) I used one of my old glasses, to go with new lens. But still keep the glasses, I'm wearing now. Just in case, something happens. (Which rarely doesn't it.) I put my glasses in the case, when im sleeping. Sometimes, i dont even bother to wear them. (If, i go used the restroom, during the night.)
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Post by anzuhana on Feb 2, 2011 13:34:37 GMT -5
I liked the list that Karen made to get even with Ricky. I wonder why the ophthalmologist made Karen get two pairs of glasses when she could've just had bifocals.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2011 16:28:38 GMT -5
Bifocals weren't probably that popular back then
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Post by anzuhana on Feb 2, 2011 18:01:28 GMT -5
^ Really? I didn't know that.
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Post by u4me on Feb 2, 2011 20:23:19 GMT -5
I was 9 when I first developed eyesight problems. It wasn't very bad (I didn't get glasses until 2 years later) and I had no idea I had an eyesight problem.
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Post by lilafowler on Feb 2, 2011 23:54:01 GMT -5
"Tell him he is adopted" still makes me laugh. I got yelled at by someone in the BSC LJ community a few years ago for suggesting it as a way to upset someone. You'd think that would be a safe space for Karen Brewer insults.
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Post by scrounge on Feb 3, 2011 1:43:05 GMT -5
Bifocals weren't probably that popular back then My sister had bifocals around the time this book was published and she was in second or third grade. They were awesome (aka ugly) '80s plastic framed beauties. I think normally though that kids don't get bifocals because it's more common for older people to need 2 different prescriptions as their eyesight starts to decline. And also I honestly think they liked the idea of Karen having two pairs of glasses so that it could be just one more part of her "Karen two-two" schtick. On a side note, a couple of years later a different eye doctor declared that my sister's eyesight was fine and he had no idea how she'd ended up with glasses in the first place, much less bifocals. It was all very confusing.
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Post by candykane on Feb 3, 2011 13:22:17 GMT -5
I like the part where Kristy takes Karen to the library and they find different book characters who wear glasses. Karen checked out a book called Spectacles, and I started wondering if it really exists. I looked it up and there is a book by Ellen Raskin (same author who wrote The Westing Game) with that title. I bet that's the book Karen checked out!
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Post by wenonah4th on Feb 3, 2011 14:42:25 GMT -5
More luck than management, I ended up reading this one the same day I went to the eye doctor myself. Time for a new pair of glasses!
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