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Babysitters' Winter Vacation...with a RANTS AHEAD warning

Feb 27, 2017 01:48

Prologue through Chapter OH GOD NO MORE
Chapters 5 through Chapter Whine
Chapter 9 through 13, or something like thatSo I fell victim to this thing known as THE HOLIDAYS. It was a jolly holly one. My daughter only asked Santa for one thing, which was an American Girl doll only one year, and 2016 it wasn't. I'm magical mommy, and tracked the doll ( Read more... )

ss#3: baby-sitter's winter vacation

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danidee92 February 28 2017, 04:01:00 UTC

The thing that bothers me most is jessi playing the racism card every second. You're right, she was a victim of racism twice throughout the series, that's it. Any time anything goes wrong in life, she blames it on racism. And good point how so many children loved this series and they can have taken advantage of that by really teaching about racism. Same with all the other very special topics they tried to cover-- anotexia, autism, and abuse to name a few-- they ruined the opportunity by portraying them so badly.

the1812overture February 28 2017, 05:57:01 UTC

One of the two times I mentioned really might have just been two girls being dumb by making faces at each other. Kids do that. We don't know if that was the result of racism, or kids just making faces. Even adults who are friends do that ( ... )

road_baby February 28 2017, 12:01:59 UTC

Jessi made Mal help her make ballet slippers

Frankly I'm shocked they didn't make a horse.

I think Claudia and Mr. Cheney liked them a lot. They stopped and looked at them for a long time and even whispered to each other about them

I always thought this meant they couldn't figure what the Hell they were looking at and Jessi's ego was just at it again.

a girl who tap-dances to "Singin' in the Rain" and three girls who dressed up as the Andrews Sisters and lip-synched "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree."

I stg, Ann was living in a bubble when she wrote these books. There's no way in Hell a bunch of middle schoolers from the 80s/90s would be singing the fucking Andrew Sisters. She's the most cringe worthy author I've ever read. Keep in mind, I've never read 50 Shades or Twilight. I refuse to.

so I can't speak for the black experienceI'm Mexican so I can say that when people are rude to you, it does cross your mind whether they're racist. I used to get picked on for having racial features and it always stuck with me. So, it is ( ... )

andromeda331 March 8 2017, 20:33:35 UTC

I think it's pretty awful of Ann to portray racism as something as easy to ( ... )

the1812overture March 9 2017, 07:06:31 UTC

I think this book is the worst about racism. The WORST. It's more offensively bad than any other that I can think of. Jessi says the most crap in this one.

Ann is allergic to character-development.

metamorphstorm December 1 2018, 18:05:14 UTC

- My daughter only asked Santa for one thing, which was an American Girl doll only one year, and 2016 it wasn’t. I’m magical mommy, and tracked the doll down, and all the outfits. My daughter didn’t care about anything else but that doll. Her beaming smile made my year.Aw, she sounds adorable! Only asking for one thing and then really appreciating it :) And, your actually working to find the doll (if I understand it right, it was a previous year’s version, so probably hard to find) is so cute, too :) I know those dolls and the other stuff they come with aren’t cheap, which makes it all even sweeter ( ... )

metamorphstorm December 1 2018, 18:07:14 UTC

- Kind of makes you wonder if Logan starting to get controlling later isn't a response to Mary Anne smothering him.The Logan/Mary Anne relationship is interesting that way - Mary Anne IS the clingy, smothering type, and she doesn’t always speak up, and I wouldn’t doubt Logan started feeling that he had to speak for her since she probably blushed and ducked her head every time someone looked at her. I’d like to blame Mary Anne for how Logan changed, but I’ve seen snarks of the books in which he looks his worst and I can honestly say that he looks like an appalling character for a kids’ book series. So I don’t know. (I’d kinda like to find the books I don’t have, just to catch up on everything firsthand ( ... )

metamorphstorm December 1 2018, 18:11:29 UTC

The story about the escaped murderer did sound kind of scary when I was a kid, up until I got older and started thinking about it. For one thing, the woman probably would have heard or felt the man climb onto the car; for another, the man’s fingernails would have worn down long before the metal roof of the car did; AND even if his nails somehow didn’t just break off, he’d have, what, ten half-inches of centimetre-wide openings with which to kill the woman? (Judging based on the ‘skritch skritch’ instead of a longer scraping sound.) If he was so intent on killing her, why not just break one of the windows? Why didn’t he run away when the police came instead of just staying on the roof?

I’d kinda like to know how many times that old I Love Lucy thing came up, and how many references were made to the show throughout these books. I got so sick of it as a kid, since in every other aspect of my life I didn’t know what people were talking about, and then even the kids’ books were referencing things I had no clue about. (And thanks to these ( ... )