#128 Claudia and the Little Liar Chapters 1-8

[ice_n_darkness]

So somehow, Karen’s Doll didn't kill me. And my kitchen full of bees has been (mostly) resolved, so I’m back to bingeing on caffeine. Not to mention the vodka and orange juice down there.

Today we come to #128 Claudia and the Little Liar. A book about Haley Braddock being a huge bitch to the BSC. Nice to see a kid that isn’t perfect. Too bad I’m

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[kakeochi_umai]

That cover makes me think of this lolcat, which cracks me up every time.

I love Abby for the same reason as you do. I hate her puns, but she won my heart when she showed up 3 minutes late and teased Kristy when she got pissy.

OK, I have a couple of problems with the Braddocks insisting that Claudia make Haley do her homework on Friday night:
1. Wouldn't it be easier to do it on Saturday when she's fresh? They could still enforce it by making her show them her homework before she's allowed to do anything.
And 2. If they KNOW it's so hard to get her to do her homework, why are they palming it off on the babysitter? I mean, I know this is Stoneybrook where parents need the Cult to tell them that their baby needs a frickin' diaper change, but still, copout much?

And I love how the moment one of the kids starts rebelling, these girls can't cope. OH NOEZ! THE KOOL-AID HAS WORN OFF!!!! That must be why these girls hate TV so much - it deactivates the Kool-Aid.

Re being a kid down because of Haley's grounding: Hey, Kristy? THIS IS WHY YOU HAVE RESERVES!

”You can’t just anyone over nine,” Sara said with a sigh. “Once a kid becomes a two-digit number, something changes.”
She's one year off (the age of adulthood in the BSCverse is eleven, not ten) but that line totally makes me wonder if Sara's found this community.

Claudia apparently takes all romantic interactions from TV and romance movies, realizing that she’s a bad girlfriend for not immediately calling her boyfriend when she realizes she’s got free time.
No, you're an idiot for LYING about the birthday thing.

Claudia realizes she didn’t eat before coming over, so she goes to make herself a sandwich.
Why are these girls totally cool with just helping themselves to clients' food like this?! I can understand it if the job includes mealtime(s), but just randomly helping yourself to their food seems really rude to me.

Rather than bond over how homework does pretty much blow, Claudia tries to set a good example
This is REALLY frustrating because this is AFTER Caludia's Freind where Claudia was the only one to reach Shea BECAUSE she admitted that she has a hard time with school too. If Claud had done the same with Haley...we wouldn't have a book. Just like #126. Geez, I know I've said this before, but the writers REALLY weren't trying by this point.

I just read GSBA as "ABBA". *starts playing their Voulez-Vous album* Can you imagine the fun Claudia would have with Abba-themed costumes?

When she asks why he isn’t hiding too, he says that he wants to spy with her. Aw.
Aw HELL YEAH. Archie rocks. And between Shea's dyslexia and Jackie's accidents, I bet he doesn't get a whole lot of attention.

[ice_n_darkness]

That lolcat is awesome. xD

I only read a couple of books with Abby, but I do still like her. And she seems to be at least a LITTLE more rounded than some others.

I can sort of see making Haley do her homework on a Friday night, even with a sitter... Though why they wouldn't have her get done as much as she can before they leave, and then let her have fun with her sitter, who knows. Personally, I'd have her do it after school until the sitter got there, look it over with her after I got home, and then Saturday afternoon do the rest.

But you know, the sitters are SO MATURE, they should be able to cope with anything!

Seriously. Or keep one kid on the bench, and rotate them in. It's just practice anyways, and in real games there's always going to be a couple kids on the bench. Teach them that they can't always be the star.

If she did, I hope she sees how much people here seem to hate her. =)

Yeah, but in BSCverse reasonable truth is nonexistent. There would be so much less drama if people just told the truth.

I have no idea. I used to baby-sit my cousin, and I'd feel weird about eating too much of their food... And that was with family! Normally I'd eat before I went over, have a very small lunch there, and then eat when I got home.

Claudia justifies that she doesn't want to keep Haley on the track of "homework is stupid." But that doesn't mean she can't say, like, "yeah, I hate having to do my homework, too. But I hate getting in trouble even more." or something.

Ahaha. That'd be AWESOME.

Archie is pretty adorable. I guess the writers sort of ran out of ideas by the time he showed up, though.

[mimithemuse]

I didn't get babysat much, but on the off occasion when I was, my parents never put it upon the sitter to make sure I did my homework. Sometimes I got very stressed out about it and it was an uphill, hours long battle. And you know what? My Mom was responsible enough to know it was her job, not our neighbor's poor teenage daughter, to work me through it.