Read Through: BSC #10 - Logan Likes Mary Anne!

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Sorry this one is late, everyone - I'm fighting off a cold and I completely forgot :( I'm also super behind on the readthrough so expect some late comments to the previous posts :p
We've got a Super Special coming up in a few weeks - just a heads up to anyone who needs to dig their books out. :)

Logan Likes Mary Anne

MARY ANNE HAS A CRUSH - ON A BOY BABY-SITTER!

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Next week's book is BSC #11 - Kristy and the Snobs

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[(Anonymous)]

and earn pretty much money - this phrase always tripped me up. I have never heard this construction before outside this book and I cannot figure out if it's a typo or a regionalism.

MA fangirling Cam Geary is adorable.

Reading the description of the first day of school is so satisfying. It almost makes me miss going to school.

It's weird that they don't allow tape in the lockers but the gum thing is SO gross. Magnets, Mary Anne! Ever heard of magnets???

We would have a real graduation ceremony in June. After that, we would go on to the high school. Oh, you sweet summer child.

Aw, I love Stacey and Claudia joining their lunch table and them not really saying anything.

Why doesn't Kristy just walk home with MA and hang out on meeting days? What time does school let out? My jr high let out at 3:30 so there wouldn't be any point in going home for a 5:30 meeting especially if they have to wait for Charlie.

Aw, poor Claudia so flustered about how she's going to keep up.

Them anticipating Logan's arrival at the meeting is so awkward and adorable. And Mary Anne getting tongue-tied and fumbling with the appointment book.

I guess the PTA meeting was a general PTA meeting just being held at SMS. Because otherwise I have no idea why Mrs. Rodowsky was at SMS.

You can kind of see Kristy's descent into madness here with vetting new sitters. Dawn just got a brief oral exam, Logan's under observation... and then we get poor Mallory.

It's Mary Anne's famous cities skirt!

Stacey wanting to buy Mary Anne underwear?!?! And it's kind of making me ship Stacey/Mary Anne??!!?

Kristy canceled a meeting! I feel like later they say Kristy has never canceled/missed a meeting so I'm being very vigilant about this. She missed a meeting in Mary Anne Saves the Day and she has canceled one here. (What is it with Mary Anne books?)

LOL at Dawn ironing MA's clothes.

I really think Mary Anne's shyness/social awkwardness is done well here. I can totally identify with being miserable during an event but wanting to try again at the end of it.

Yay, Dawn and Kristy bonding! I love it. I love that they can kind of confide in each other in a more honest way than they each can with Mary Anne because even though she's each of their best friend, she is still a bit fragile, but they can talk honestly about problems together. Like, I think Mary Anne is still a little upset not to have Kristy next door, but Kristy can talk with Dawn about the move.

And Logan is really good with Mary Anne! He's so sweet.

Poor Mary Anne. Ugh. I do see how that would be a nightmare for her. But I like how she takes the initiative in calling everyone and how they make it up to her with a smaller party. And Tigger!

[(Anonymous)]

When we returned to the table with our trays, we were surprised to find Stacey and Claudia there with their trays. Since when had they decided to eat with us? We were good friends, but last year they always thought they were so much more sophisticated than we were. They liked to talk about boys and movie stars and who was going out with whom. … Had Stacey and Claudia changed, or had Kristy and Dawn and I? Pretty sure you've changed at least, Mary Anne! But Stacey and Claudia might also value the others' friendship more by this point.

If I just brush it and leave it alone, it ripples nicely, kind of as if I’d had a body wave, which I haven’t. What the heck is a body wave in this context? Wiktionary suggests a kind of earthquake which seems wrong. :p

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- I find the whole "ooh, don't tell Kristy" thing when Dawn's dad sends her the shirt really weird. Is nobody else allowed to talk about their dads now? :/


- Mary Anne says she 'barely remembers' her mother - I had always assumed Alma had died when Mary Anne was too little to have memories of her. This suddenly blows the angst meter WAY higher.


- Stacey doing her Porky Pig impression! ♥


- I love the gross SMS lunches and the reactions to them haha. I also love that Kristy won't hold back on describing it in gross detail, but she refuses to confirm if Mary Anne still smells like gym class. "*I'm* not going to smell you!"


- Mary Anne is in love with Logan at first sight? Jeez, Stacey was in love with Scott at first sight - SLOW DOWN, GIRLS.


- Mary Anne describes Kristy's old house as a 'split level' - is this true for her own house, and Claud's? WHY DO I FIND THIS SO FASCINATING? It doesn't gel with my mental images of the neighbourhood at all and suddenly I'm brimming with new ones and I LOVE IT.


- Kristy’s mother (who used to be Mrs. Thomas and is now Mrs. Brewer)
Ooh confirmation that Elizabeth dropped Thomas. Is she referred to as Mrs Thomas-Brewer in the later books? I always thought she'd hang onto the Thomas to keep the connection to her kids. (That's what my mum's reasoning was after my parents divorced.)


- Awww Mary Anne's first bra! And she has a crush on a BOY. She's growing up :')


- Omg poor Claud getting all overwhelmed with the new calls coming in. Stupid rich neighbourhood jerks, CALL DURING CLUB HOURS, THEY'RE ON THE FLYER.


- Noooooo phonetic accents


- Aww, she runs home to make sure she looks nice for the meeting. I'm so nervous for her! This is a much less jerky crush than Stacey/Scott. Mary Anne's sudden interest in boys is much more interesting to me than Stacey gushing over some jerk lifeguard :P And she gets so nervous and flustered! Aww.


- CLAUDIA NEARLY SAID BRA STRAP IN FRONT OF A BOY *GASP*


- Kristy reached over and picked up the phone, somehow managing not to take her eyes off Logan.
I CANNOT STOP LAUGHING AT THIS IMAGE


- Mariel Rodowsky omg another parent first name yesss this read through has been such a gift.


- "I gotta show you guys my grasshopper. His name is Elizabeth."
Oh my GOSH ♥ JACKIE ♥


- "You have a pretty smile."
LOGAN LIKES MARY ANNNNNE


- 'Toshe me up' is one of the cutest things ever, awww.


- Aw, Claudia wondering how she'd handle the stickers fiasco, because Gabbie had only wanted to make her door beautiful, but it was still going to take a lot of work to get them off.


- As the owner of a black lab, who is now very old and ploddy and sleepy, the Chewy chase made me laugh ♥


- I used the phone upstairs, just in case Dad should come home early. I sat in the armchair in his room holding a slip of paper in one hand. Logan’s number was written on the paper. I took ten deep breaths. I was trying to calm down, but the breaths made me dizzy. I think I was hyperventilating. I stretched out on Dad’s bed until I’d recovered.
lmao awwww Mary Anne ♥ ♥


- The Remember September Dance was on a Friday. Dad had not only given me permission to go with Logan, he’d seemed happy about it. In fact, he’d given me his Bellair’s Department Store charge card and told me I could buy a new outfit.
When he handed me the card, his eyes looked sort of teary. I hugged him tight.

SPIER FEELS ♥


- Dad dropped the five of us off at school at precisely 7:25.I leaned over and kissed his cheek. “ ‘Bye,” I said. “Thanks for driving us.”
“Have fun, honey.”

MORE SPIER FEELS


- Lmao I love that Mary Anne describes everyone's outfit and at the end she just adds "we just can't seem to get Kristy out of blue jeans" hahaha


- lmao aw I'd forgotten her shoe flies off! Poor MA.


- Oh gosh, Louie foreshadowing :( :(


- Poor Mary Anne :( I used to suffer so terribly from anxiety I can totally relate to her fleeing that birthday party. And then the guilty/silly feelings she gets afterward :( When I was in the midst of a panic attack I'd always run away. Once I threw all of my belongings into my car and drove to my mum's house in the middle of the night, and only once I'd calmed down did I realise how stupid I was. Ughhh poor MA :(


- Omg Richard agreeing to the cat and Mary Anne flinging herself at him to hug him I LOVE THEM SO MUCH.


- Everyone in this book loves Smash - no U4ME yet!


- That toy dinosaur sounds like the most dangerous toy EVER :/


- This book was ADORABLE

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-I’d forgotten that Mary Anne’s the youngest. I’m a December baby, so I totally feel your youngest!semi-angst there, Mary Anne.

-I like how cool they all are with the silent agreement that they’ll all sit together now – but I have to giggle at their old Shillaber seatmates finding boy twins to sit with. I mean – how convenient!

-So, ah, has Kristy started wearing a bra by the time the time warp starts?

-They are all so adorable with their oh-so-obvious s squee about Logan, and I love how Stacey is the first to sense that Mary Anne has a (serious) crush on him.

-Yay, Mary Anne, for surviving a Rodowsky job with the boy you have a humongous crush on! I love how she doesn’t let the crush blind her from evaluating Logan as a sitter. And how in Logan’s chapter in Babysitters Remember (aka his POV of this job), he’s also really self-conscious of Mary Anne evaluating him, and trying to think of ways to just get her to talk. (Yeah, I cross-referenced like a totals nerd.)

-heh, even MIMI tried to catch Chewie.

- Charlotte settled herself in Stacey’s lap, even though she’s almost too big to do that. <3 <3 <3

- Huh, they cancelled to help Mary Anne get ready? I would so like to know the behind- the-scenes stuff going on with the rest of the BSC here. There must’ve been a plenty of of “Our little Mary Anne, going on a date!” feelings.

-Early days baby Mary Anne/Logan is loads cuter than I remember it being. It’s nice that they have that convo about her shyness, and it makes sense that Logan’s attracted to how Mary Anne is “serious about people”. And before her shoe flew off, that goofy dancing scene was adorable. :D

No girl has ever fooled around with me like that. –awwww
And hey, Logan dances with all the girls! Sometimes I forget he’s friends with everybody else too.

- I LOVE how Richard handles everything in this book, he’s basically like “My baby is growing up – and that’s good.” Plus: Give a home to a pet that really needs one. He’s really a marshmallow deep down inside! And don’t you love how quickly he agrees to get Tigger?

-Kristy was whispering to Dawn, who was giggling – my how things have changed. :D

-Poor Mary Anne. I can sympathize with her anxiety at thinking everyone MUST hate her for not responding in a more ‘socially acceptable’ way to a surprise party.

And they all wanted you to have them, even after you’d left. It’s good that all her guests were so understanding though.

-So many Stacey and Mary Anne feels again! I like that they both apologized and promised each other to be better at things.

-and ohhhhh, so having associates was Mary Anne’s idea.