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Post by morbiddadestiny on Jan 5, 2008 15:57:24 GMT -5
i sort of loved this because it reminded me of harriet the spy.
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Post by aln1982 on Jan 5, 2008 17:08:45 GMT -5
^ ;D Did Karen ever watch that movie or read that book? I know Char and Becca did.
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Post by morbiddadestiny on Jan 6, 2008 0:53:43 GMT -5
^ AND mallory. remember, she wanted to be "just like harriet" in SS1 and then her plotline was recycled in SS3!
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Post by aln1982 on Jan 6, 2008 1:08:35 GMT -5
^ How could I forget that? ;D Especially since I'm rereading SS 3 right now.
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Post by Kylie90210 on Apr 6, 2008 21:13:21 GMT -5
Just read this one, and agree that karen bugged me. She has different standards for everyone else. I thought that what the parents did was fine, sometimes a lesson needs to be learnt, and telling someone something over and over just doesn't cut it. Karen needed to understand how it felt to be on the receiving end of the criticism.
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Post by booboobrewer on Apr 6, 2008 21:21:59 GMT -5
Karen needed to understand how it felt to be on the receiving end of the criticism. Yeah, I agree.
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Post by sparklymouse on Dec 31, 2008 19:26:43 GMT -5
Everyone in the Venting thread was just saying how they have no plans for tonight, so I just thought of this book. I think this was the New Year's celebration where they opened their front door at midnight and could here all their neighbors cheering "Happy New Year" from their houses. So apparently everyone in Stoneybrook (or at least the Big House neighborhood) stays home and has G-rated celebrations too.
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Post by booboobrewer on Dec 31, 2008 21:22:08 GMT -5
I was skimming through this book the other day. In the chapter with the Big House party, Sam yells out "Part-AY!" or "Let's get this party started!" or something like that. It just made me laugh; is he expecting a crazy time when the party guests consist of his little stepsiblings and his grandmother? ;D They don't do anything except sit around and share their resolutions.
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Post by wenonah4th on Jan 1, 2009 11:51:38 GMT -5
Sam's such a good big brother!
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Post by tiff85 on Jan 13, 2009 22:04:50 GMT -5
I liked how Karen was trying cover her tracks! She was so sneaky, but then again she always is.
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Post by wenonah4th on Jan 14, 2009 8:41:32 GMT -5
You have to wonder if everyone saw through her or what.
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Post by wanderingfrog on Jan 15, 2009 22:43:25 GMT -5
In the chapter with the Big House party, Sam yells out "Part-AY!" or "Let's get this party started!" or something like that. It just made me laugh; is he expecting a crazy time when the party guests consist of his little stepsiblings and his grandmother? ;D They don't do anything except sit around and share their resolutions. Hahahahaha, that's great. I meant to reread this book just before New Year's, but instead I read Dawn's Big Date for the New Year's stuff and Mary Anne's Makeover because it's such a good companion book to Dawn's Big Date.
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Post by tiff85 on Jan 16, 2009 17:20:34 GMT -5
Well maybe, maybe not. I don't know, but Karen sure had a lot of tricks up her sleeve! At her age, I wouldn't have got away with half the stuff she did!
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Post by booboobrewer on Jun 27, 2009 0:13:05 GMT -5
Okay. I read this book while I was on the treadmill this afternoon...was looking for something to read and it was sitting there on my shelf. I really cannot stand Karen in this book. She's such a good speller...I wonder if she can spell h-y-p-o-c-r-i-t-e? 1. Karen has some sort of problem with Emily Michelle. She is so bothered by the fact that Emily doesn't have a resolution, and, Karen? She's two. From the beginning, she KNOWS that Emily cannot understand the concept of resolutions, she says so herself. Watson tells her not to make a resolution for Emily when she decides to make some for Shannon and Boo-Boo. She tells him it "isn't fair" that Emily is unable to promise that she won't have accidents anymore. She says "we all have to work or try to work on special things while she doesn't." Nannie speaks up and is like DUH, she is learning English and is being toilet-trained, what more do you want her to do? Thank you, Nannie. 2. Karen does not apologize to a single person until she is forced to. She goes about her business for like, a week, without telling Nannie, Andrew, Hannie or Nancy she's sorry--until Lisa apologizes to HER for getting revenge by asking people to spy on her. 3. She has a really crazy idea of what makes someone "good." Why is everything a contest? What does she have to gain from being the one "good" member of the household, the one who changed her resolutions so that she could say she was keeping them? Even after Watson tells her not to take it so seriously because resolutions sometimes aren't meant to be serious, she dismisses it. I mean, Karen's a smart kid. In the beginning she knows she'll have to work hard to keep her promises. But she doesn't work hard. Even when she sees someone working at theirs--Nannie exercising her hip--she doesn't see the good in that. Karen, you don't have the right to single out others and analyze their progress when the only progress you've made is secretly rewriting your list and whining about Emily wetting her pants. Seriously. I just don't understand why Karen feels the need to police everything that breathes in the big house. I can only imagine what kinds of expectations she will have of herself and others when she's older. Just had to get that off my chest ;D, there is some stuff I do actually like about this book. The New Year's Eve party, Karen being so shocked to see her father eat a piece of cake that she writes about it IN ALL CAPS, and her post-Christmas day outfit--a short skirt, a sweatshirt that says "BE COOL" on it, and snowflake knee socks. I thought that was such a great outfit when I was seven.
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Post by sarish on Jun 27, 2009 10:25:27 GMT -5
Wow...that book sounds like it would make me extremely mad. Haha, I am glad you got it off your chest. That is ridiculous, poor Emily I've never heard of a seven year old not understanding that at two you are too young to have to worry about that, and actually a lot of children aren't potty-trained until they are that age anyway. I would have loved for Watson to shut her up by telling everyone that she still had accidents until she was four or something. Agh, or maybe that is TOO embarrassing, but what can I say, sometimes she is a brat and needs to be shut up. ;D
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