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[29 Sep 2006|02:31pm] |
Hi :) I've finally figured out how to join this journal! :) I'm Emma, from the UK, and I'm a huge BSC fan! I love talking about BSC online!
I'm the owner of The Hidden Bookcase, a huge Sweet Valley and Babysitters Club site, which is at:
www.thehiddenbookcase.com
I've also just started a BSC and Sweet Valley Forum there!
www.thehiddenbookcase.com/forum
Hopefully we can get as many fans there as possible, and have some fun! (Its also a forum for other book series's, such as The Sleepover Club, and any other series you like really!) I'd love to here from all the BSC fans!!
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[09 May 2006|11:25pm] |
If Michelle doesn't object, I think this thing needs to get started back up! I currently have quite a bit of time - I'm looking for a job, and have wayyy too much free time. (ps - Michelle! I totally didn't realize you went to Shepherd! I graduated from there last year!)
So, why don't we pick up where we left off?
#10, Logan Likes Mary Anne!
Noteworthy events in this book:
-The sitters start 8th grade, making the only book where time passes in such a way. From this time forward, they are eternally in middle school.
-Logan is introduced, becomes the club's first associate member, and he and Mary Anne start dating.
-Mary Anne turns 13, one of the only times a club member actually celebrates a birthday.
-Mary Anne gets her kitten, Tigger.
-The Rodowskys are introduced.
Discussion Questions:
1. Did it seem realistic to you that shy Mary Anne with the uber-protective father suddenly gets a boyfriend? Why or why not?
2. In this book, Jackie Rodowsky is introduced. Did you find his accident-prone ways annoying or endearing?
3. Stacey, Dawn, Claudia, and Kristy, knowing full well how shy Mary Anne is, throw her a surprise party, which she runs away from. Did Mary Anne really overreact, or were the sitters truly being inconsiderate?
4. Any other thoughts?
Have fun and be nice!
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| #7: Claudia and Mean Janine, #8: Boy-Crazy Stacey, #9: The Ghost at Dawn's House |
[27 Jan 2006|01:42pm] |
Okay, we're playing catch up time!
#7: Claudia and Mean Janine
This is my favorite book of the first ten, besides maybe number nine. Anyways, I like the relationship of Claudia and Janie. Mimi is also one of my favorite characters.
The Andrew-is-a-monster chapter was my favorite. Jenny and Andrew will get married someday, I just know it.
Seriously, it's hard for me to think of questions for this book to discuss. It wasn't really one of those books, you know?
#8: Boy-Crazy Stacey
I really don't like the Sea City books. The BSC is best when they are all together, not apart. Further more, Stacey is unlikeable in this book (my opinion). I feel for Mary Anne, because she is a lot like me. She's not my favorite, but she's the one most like me.
That said, this is the book where it gets a little unrealistic. First of all, in order to be a mother's helper, a mother must be present. Would it kill the Pikes to take a family vaction and spend time with the family? Second, twelve/thirteen is awfully young to be in charge of that many kids for that long.
#9: The Ghost at Dawn's House
My favorite of the first ten, besides #7. I never believed the ghost stuff and figured out the mystery pretty early on. However, this is the book where Dawn became my favorite character. However, my other favorite character was Kristy and since I can never like the two at the same time, my favorite always switched back and forth.
Annoucement:
I am currently back in school and I have three semsters left until graduation. So, I don't have a lot of time. In order to give you updates, whoever is the first to come on this board on Fridays, whether it be me or someone else, maybe start a post about the book to be disscussed. But just one post guys, no mutiples ones.
Thanks!
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| #6: Kristy's Big Day |
[06 Jan 2006|03:21pm] |
It's easy to understand why this is AMM's favorite book. However, I never really cared for it myself.
1) Which one was your favorite group (Blue Birds, Yellow Suns, Pink Hearts, etc.)?
I liked Stacey's group the best. They seemed like the calmest and easiest to manage. I'm not a baby. To be fair though, neither Kristy's or Claudia's groups seemed to cause problems. I'm not a baby person nor would I ever take a group with Karen in it. I really don't know why so many baby-sitters like her.
2) What did you think of Karen?
When I was younger, I didn't really care much about Karen. I read her books when I was bored and while I didn't hate her, I knew I would never be friends with her.
That said, I hate Karen in this book. I'm sorry, she is a terrible kid and makes Watson look like a terrible parent. She thinks it's okay to disobey an authority figure (Dawn) several times, she disrespects her elders and disrupts social settings (the wedding), and always, always has to be the center of attention (what if someone else wanted to be the bride?). Add this to the fact that she always has to get what she wants and it always has to be her way and Karen is just a horrible child.
Poor Andrew.
3) Favorite chapter?
The one with the children's wedding. Even after a decade, I still laugh at "Holy Moly"
4) any other thoughts?
None really. I didn't like this book much.
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| #5: Dawn and the Impossible Three |
[29 Dec 2005|08:57pm] |
1) The rivalry between Dawn and Kristy: Was it realistic? Have you ever been in Dawn or Kristy's position?
I'm one of the most jealous people ever. So I know exactly how Kristy feels about being left out of the room decorating. It may not seen like a big thing, but its the little things, I guess, that we dwell on. Poor Mary Anne though. But the sad thing, as a child, I always thought MA was lame. So I always wondered why these two, much cooler girls, were fighting over MA. If they ever got over that hurdle, Kristy and early Dawn could have been great friends.
2) Favorite Chapter?
I do like this book, but when I break it up in chapters, I don't really enjoy it.
3) Bigger Pains: The Barrett children or Mrs. Barrett?
Mrs. Barrett wins all the way. I'm sorry, I know she's going through a rough dicvorce and all, but good lord lady, get a clue.
4) Favorite Barrett child?
Suzi. A realistic, nonannoying, normal 3/4yearold. I think she's the only client I never get annoyed with through out the series. (I hate Jamie's Hi-hi)
5) Other thoughts
-Why do they always say MA is so lucky to have two best friends? Isn't the point of the series that they are all best friends? They certainly make a big deal over best friends.
-I think this is the only book that doesn't have a subplot involving the other girls. Main plot: Dawn and the Barretts, Subplot: Dawn and Jealous Kristy.
-If you look at it one way, this book is the first BSC book. The other four were planned and were intended to end after book 4. With this one, you can see AMM trying a new style (Dawn book is all about Dawn with some name dropping)
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| New Features and a FanFic Review! |
[26 Dec 2005|11:27pm] |
Hello everyone! First, I would like to think you all for your support during this rough time. I hope everyone enjoy their various Hoildays.
Anyways, I was thinking about adding some features to the BSC_Book_Community.
First off, articles/essays on aspects of the BSC world. Is Kristy gay? Mary Anne and Logan: Together forever? Karen Brewer: Pest or usefull character? Anything you can think of and want to write about. This is different form the BSC regular community. A post must be well thought out and referenced. I'll try to work on one as an example.
And it doesn't just have to be on books either. BSC TV: The Prefect Mirror is just as acceptable.
Second, once a week, I'll try to review a BSC fanfiction. Tired of having to search for a good fanfiction only to find its crap? Well, I'll be picking fics at random and reviewing them. You are welcomed to submit fanfictions if you would like to. I'm not too scary.
Third, I started a webshoots community for BSC covers: http://community.webshots.com/user/charmer_girl
If you want to add to it, you can post it here and I'll add it to the album.
First Fanfic Review
Title: “Jessi and the "psychic's" prediction”
Author: Trishette
Characters: Main: Jessi, Supporting: Mallory, Claudia, Stacey, Kristy, Mary Anne, and Logan. Others are made up, I believe.
Rating: G
Stars: 3 out of 5
You Can Read It Here: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/170433/1/
( The Following Summary and Review Gives Away Plot Details. Read at own Risk )
Espically for you, a second Fanfic!
Title: The Three-Timing Jerk
Author: brendachong
Characters: Main: Claudia, Stacey, Mallory, Others: Rest of the BSC, the McGills, Samantha, Janine, the Kishis, The Pikes.
Rating: PG
Stars: 4 out of 5
Read It Here: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/347378/1/
( The Following Summary and Review Gives Away Plot Details. Read at own Risk )
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| #5: Dawn and the Impossible Three |
[26 Dec 2005|11:25pm] |
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| BSC #4 Discussion |
[26 Dec 2005|11:30am] |
Info for this book is posted below
As usual you can answer whatever you want, add your own.
But first a shout out to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) charmer_girl who we hope things get better for soon.
Questions
What do you think of the girls' behavior in this book? Do you one or more of them helped to prolong the fight? Do you one or more of them tried to end the fight?
What do you think of Dawn? How Mary Anne's friendship with Dawn different from Mary Anne's friendship with Kristy (or Claudia or Stacey)?
What do you think of Mary Anne's relationship with Mimi? And Claudia's reaction to the "my Mary Anne" comment?
What do you think of Mary Anne's handling of her problems with her father?
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| BSC #4 Information |
[26 Dec 2005|11:26am] |
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| #4: Mary Anne Saves the Day |
[23 Dec 2005|01:20pm] |
This is the worest Christmas ever. This morning I get into a car accident and kill my Rav. Then we come home and one of the cats got a hold of my finch Pip.
So, you'll come up with your own questions. I'm not really thinking right now.
Happy Hoildays.
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| #1: Kristy's Great Idea Info |
[18 Dec 2005|04:17pm] |
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[18 Dec 2005|04:02pm] |
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| #3: The Truth About Stacey |
[17 Dec 2005|07:54pm] |
I'm sorry ya'll. Between Narnia (so good), Christmas shopping, and work, I lost my days. So here ya go.
Questions
Favorite Chapter?
The one where they confront Liz and Michelle, and Kristy says the classic "Like, Ha ha." Even at my mature age, I still think that's funny.
Favorite sub-plot? (Anything other than the other Club, includes Stacey's illness)
I think my favorite sub-plot was with Charolette. That girl is such a sweet heart and I enjoyed her relationship with Stacey.
What did you think about the switching friends?
Kristy/Stacey and Mary Anne/Claudia were odd. However, it made me love Claudia a lot. Growing up, Claudia wasn't my fave and I didn't like to read her books really. Rereading now, I really like her. She's like Kristy, with the confidence, in control, leadership, etc., but with Mary Anne's senstivity. In the beginning, I think it was Claudia more than anyone else that kept the club together, because she got along with everyone. That may be why she and Kristy butted heads so much; Kristy maybe threatened a bit.
Favorite clinet?
Jamie was so sweet with the arrival of Lucy, espically how he really wasn't upset about getting a sister.
Did the Title Fit the Book?
No, because did we learn anything about Stacey that we really didn't already know?
Feel free to add any other comments guys and any suggestions on how to make this community better
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| The Truth About Stacey |
[17 Dec 2005|07:16pm] |
I have a question about The Truth About Stacey. I just re-read it in its French Canadian version, and there's one inconsistency that's been bugging me. I wonder what it's like in the original version.
In the French version, when the BSC first hears about the Baby-sitting Agency, someone (I think it's Claudia) mentions that the two girls owning the Agency (Lise and Michèle in French - Lisa and Michelle in English?) are probably going to that "other secondary school", which makes sense if you look at our education system here in Quebec (we have 6 years of elementary school, then 5 years of secondary school, but sometimes, secondary schools are divided: grade 1 and 2 in one school, grades 3-4-5 in another.)
But then, as they encounter the different members of the Agency, Stacey never mentions going to that other school. It seems as though the BSC and the Agency go to the same school. They meet them in the hallways, know where their classes are, etc. They're able to go see them during lunch time or between classes.
So, I was wondering, how is it in the English version? Are the members of the Agency in the 8th grade (and so much mature?) Or are they in high school and SMS and SHS are ridiculously close? How does it work out? Does it work out?
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| #2: Claudia and The Phantom Phone Calls |
[09 Dec 2005|08:15pm] |
Questions for Consideration:
What was your favorite chapter?
What did you think of the Babysitters response to the buglars?
Who was your favorite clint? Favorite sitting job to read about?
Do you approve of Karen's behavior in this book?
Did you ever have an Alan or Trevor growing up?
New Cover:
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| Info: #2: Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls |
[09 Dec 2005|07:56pm] |
Sorry so late, just got done with finals!
Kids at School:
Alan Gray
Trevor Sandbourne
Alexander Kurtzman
Lauren Hoffman
Mariah Shillaber
Miranda Shillaber
Dorranne Wallingford
Emily Bernstein
Howie Johnson
Pete Black
Rick Chow
Teachers:
Mrs. Pinelli (music)
Mr. Peters (math)
Mr. Taylor (Princpal)
Clinets:
Marshalls - Nina (3), Eleanor (1)
Newtons - Jamie (3)
Brewers - Karen (5), Andrew (3)
Johanssens - Charolette (?)
Thomas - David Micheal (?)
Willis
Feldmans - Rob (8), Brenda (5), Rosie (3)
Family Trees:
Kishi: Claudia (12), parents, Mimi (Martenal Gradmother), Janine (15), Mimi has a sister
Newtons & Feldmans: Mrs. Newton and Diane Feldman are sisters. Jamie's father is named Roger
Books:
A Ramona Book
Nancy Drew: Phantom of Pine Hill
The Secret Garden
The Witch of Blackbird Pong
Triva:
First Halloween Book
Janine's I.Q. - 196
Claudia's Clothing:
Pg. 34, 46, 150
Pets:
Johanssens - Carrot the schnauzer (a dog)
Marshalls have a cat
Thomases - Louie the collie (a dog)
Earnings:
Stacey - $16 in two weeks
Kristy - $14 in two weeks
Music:
"Poundin' Down the Walls", the Slime Kings
Streets:
Bradford Court - Who lives here?
McLelland - ?
Rockville Court - Alan Gray
Rosedale Rd. -
Dating News:
-Stacey goes to the Halloween Hop with Pete Black
-Claudia goes to the Halloween Hop with Trevor Sandbourne
-Both have crushes on each other
-Kristy goes to the Halloween Hop with Alan Gray
-He has a crush on her
-She is suprised/happy that a guy likes her
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| Welcome! |
[05 Dec 2005|12:26pm] |
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This is the brand new BSC Book Club community. Please feel free to show this community off in other communites. Also, be sure to read the community information.
Here is the link to #1, Kristy's Great Idea, if you would like to contirbute to the disscusion:
http://www.livejournal.com/community/babysittersclub/262077.html
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