Read Through: BSC #3 - The Truth About Stacey

[ozqueen]

STACEY'S DIFFERENT... AND IT'S HARDER ON HER THAN ANYONE KNOWS

Welcome to the discussion post for week three! Don't panic if you haven't finished The Truth About Stacey yet - we're all in different time zones, so things will be a little bit staggered. The post doesn't have an expiry date on it, so just comment whenever you're ready. This is the post to discuss your reading of The Truth About Stacey. What was your favourite part? What was your least favourite part? Any memorable quotes you'd like to share? What had you forgotten about since the last time this book was read? If someone wrote a fic set during the timeline of this fic, what should they write? There are no mandatory questions or points of discussion for this - anything you want to talk about in relation to this week's book, go ahead!

Next week's book is BSC #4 - Mary Anne Saves the Day.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I love how Stoneybrook's size/amenities seems to fluctuate! Is it a small, old town with a lot of history? Is it a bedroom community for Stamford? I imagine it's bits of both - I always picture the downtown area with all the stores as being a sort of classic Colonial town, and Dawn's house was obviously a farmhouse (but it's close enough to Bradford Court to bike to) so that will be as far from Main Street as a farm would have been in the 1700s. Bradford Court (and nearby streets) is probably a post-war construction, if not '70s. (Maybe I just like the idea of the Kishis, the Thomases and the Spiers all buying new builds at the same time.)

Apparently, you can't bike to Watson's, a fact that is pretty firmly established from the the first book and also that the girls walk to school. And if Watson's house is zoned for Kelsey Middle School, is KMS on the "old" side of town (Ben Brewer etc. implies Watson's house is old)? I realize you can have new and old houses all over the place, but if Bradford Court is near Dawn's house then it was probably once farmland too?
This is probably far deeper than anyone is ever meant to go into this, I just wonder about Stoneybrook's history/construction! Sorry to take up your thread with this rubbish.

[isabelquinn]

Stoneybrook's history/construction is *exactly* the sort of rubbish I want to talk about! :D

I also always got the impression that Watson's house is old (for the same reason, good old Ben Brewer), and Mrs Porter's house is apparently this crumbling Victorian mansion. And then the Delaney place sounds like a snazzy new mansion. So yeah, I'm like you -- I think it's a bit of both. I've been playing attention to little geographic details on this read through and it's helping my mental image of Stoneybrook. Like, I think in Kristy's Great Idea, it said that the Pikes lived a few doors down from the Newtons. I didn't know that! But I'm still left with a lot of "???" about the broader things, like Stoneybrook's size.

On a related note, I would legit love to read fic about the James Hickman era of Stoneybrook.

[ozqueen]

I desperately want lots and lots of meta about Stoneybrook as a town. Or at least a collection of facts from the book all in one place. OR a better map, because god damn.