The Babysitter's Club Series
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But anyway, that's awesome that OP has been collecting them! Thie series is definitely worth the investment.
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Mary Anne's boyfriend, Logan Bruno, was from Louisville, KY. So am I. Here in Louisville, we do not go around pronouncing Mary Anne like Myree Eye-un. We say "Mary Anne." We also do not all live on horse farms. I don't know anyone who does, actually. (This is not intended to offend anyone who does speak Southern or live on a horse farm. It just drove me nuts that Ann Martin categorized all Louisvillians without ever even visiting, apparently; like when people assume that all of our radio stations play country and all we do with our lives is go to the Derby.)
I assume she took some flak for that, because Dawn was from Palo City, not Palo Alto. (Way to camouflage it.)
I always skipped chapter 2. It just summarized the characters for the one reader out there who decided to start on book 38 instead of book 1. It got old in a hurry.
I absolutely hated how politically correct the books were. I'm not saying I wanted the babysitters to be trash-talking vandals, but it was obvious that Ann M Martin was too afraid of offending anyone. The books were so squeaky clean that you could wash a car with them.
They never aged. Every year, they started a new school year in the same grade at the same age. I wanted them to grow up with me. They didn't.
The repetitive behaviours of the kids they babysat for really got old. "Claire-silly-billy-goo-goo!" was cute for the first five books. Then it just got old. And since no one ever aged, no one ever changed. They were static.
I hate it when a series (book or TV) ends with tragedy. Was it really necessary to burn down Mary Anne and Dawn's old farmhouse, with its secret passage? Geez.
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However, there came a time when I couldn't find a book that I had not read apart from "Babysitter's".
Forgive me, but I didn't find it even a bit appealing...the language and especially the style used was pathetic not to mention the fact that; two or three chapters into the story and one would know exactly what the ending would be!
P.S. I was nine...
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I have never been a fashionista, but one thing that always stood out to me when I read the books was how crazy the girls tended to dress. Especially the babysitters who were considered more "stylish". I realize these books were written in the 1980's, but I definitely think that the author took great liberties with what was considered fashionable.
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Oh my gosh, that actually happened? I never read the end of the series, because I grew out of the books and stopped reading them. WHY would she have had that awesome farmhouse burn down?zeldas_lullaby wrote:I hate it when a series (book or TV) ends with tragedy. Was it really necessary to burn down Mary Anne and Dawn's old farmhouse, with its secret passage? Geez.
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