Mallory and the Mystery Diary! Part 2!
So, I started working on this early, but then it got too hot so, I had to wait some before I felt like tackling it again. I gotta say, this is a very mellow book. Not much to snark here. Mal is good and level headed about teaching Buddy which is a nice change from how the BSC usually handles their clients problems. Yeah, she's a little loony about he diary but she's 11. I'll forgive her. God only knows how big I was into spooky things at that age. Or any age. I finally got to go to Michaels and was squeeing in joy over the Halloween stuff. I can't wait! I may even bake! Anyways, I can get why Mal is excited so, I won't fault her for it. Well, lets go!
Part 1!
-Song of the Day!-
Chapter 6!
It's Mal's first session of tutoring Buddy and Jessi will be along to watch the girls. Mal is looking forward to teaching Buddy because she loves to read and would like him to too. I get that way too but everyone in my family hate books and anything to do with being smart so, it's just a lost cause with most of them. When she gets there Buddy wants nothing to do with learning and it dampers Mal's enthusiasm. But she motors through and tries to teach him through flashcards. She tells him for every word he gets right, he gets a minute of free time. But because Buddy gets almost none of them right, he gets discouraged. Mal moves on to helping him with his homework and he stalls around till Mal tells him he used up some of his free time. He gets to work and Mal kinda does nothing till it's time to check his work. He got most of it wrong so Mal has him redo it. Mal starts thinking about how she thought this would be easy and that there has to be a better way to get Buddy reading.
Chapter 7!
When Mal gets home, she tries to work out a plan to get Buddy interested in reading. She says the stories in his reader aren't interesting, and I dunno. I always liked the stories in our school readers. They were usually excerpts from chapter books. Once we had The Doubtful Guest and I totally fell in love with Edward Gorey. We also had The Raven and I fell in love with Poe. Mal can't think of any good ideas so she stops to read some of Sophie's diary.
Sophie is hot for some guy and he's hot for her so good for them. Sophie's mum get preggo but dies a few days after giving birth. After that, a portrait of Sophie's mum disappears from the house. Sophie's grandfather (Old Hickory from the Bad Luck Mystery book) accuses Sophie's dad of stealing it and write the family out of his will. Sophie is convinced that her dad didn't do it and vows to haunt the house if she can't clear her father's name. Mal pisses herself because, oh, my Lord! Stacey's house might be haunted! She wants to call Stacey to tell her about it, but it's late and she has to get to bed. Oh, well.
Chapter 8!
Nope! I'm not reading anything to do with that brat Karen! I don't care about their third floor they're all afraid of for no damned good reason. Or why the Hell Charlie and Sam don't claim it as a swinging bachelor pad. Let's look at something actually cute instead!
Chapter 9!
Aww, yeah! I've said it before but Mal books always rock because she always describes everyone's clothes! I wonder if it's the ghosties doing like, 'Ann hates this character, let's put in some outfit descriptions so everyone buys her books and reads them over and over again.' I know it worked on me.
Jessi-a long, heart-covered sweat shirt over her dance leotard and a pair of pink pants that (although you couldn’t see this) I knew were held up at the waist with a drawstring
Mal-boring old jeans, but a top that I liked a lot - a big white long-sleeved T-shirt that said I ♥ KIDS across the front
Mary Anne-a very cool short printed jumper over a striped shirt. You might think that those two things would clash, but they didn’t. They looked great together. The jumper was white with a small red print, and the shirt was white with narrow, widely-spaced stripes
Claudia-jeans, a plain white blouse, a pink sweater, white socks, and loafers. She said she’d gone back to the fifties for the day.
Stacey-a short-sleeved blue-and-white jumpsuit with cuffed pants. Parts of it were striped, parts were solid. On her feet were high-topped sneakers laced only halfway up so that she could roll the tongue of the shoe down (extremely cool), plus she was wearing a lot of jewelry
Dawn-pants and a baggy sweat shirt - but on her head was a small straw hat
Wow. Where do I begin? Probably with Mal's shirt. How many years do you think she has before it becomes creepy? I also find it pretty funny that she has a shirt declaring her love for kids when she is a kid. I think I'll by Jynx a collar that says 'I ♥ cats!' Mary Anne's outfit sounds like something I would wear. I just bought me a black jumper and I love it to pieces. I can wear my nerdy ass shirts and still be feminine. Claudia is also looking pretty nice. Stacey on the other hand. Yikes. That's pure 80s nightmare fuel right there. Not only a multi-patterned jumpsuit but one that's pegged?! I repeat, yikes.
During a lull in the meeting, Mal asks Stacey if she's noticed anything...unusual at her house. Stacey is like, yeah, it got clean and Mal is like, I meant ghostly unusual. Stacey is like, no and everyone laughs at Mal because of course they do. Because it's not like K. Ron wasn't ghost hunting in the previous chapter. Dawn tries to make everything about herself as usual, by saying maybe Sophie's father Jared is the same one who supposedly haunts her secret passage. Dawn I snarked that book ( baby's first snark!) and there was no evidence that your house was the one Jared Mullray lived in. And if he was living in Stacey's house, why the fuck would he be haunting yours? Just sit down, shut the Hell up and stop trying to seem special.
Chapter 10!
Mal's second session with Buddy and this time she's better prepared. She brings along Archie comics for him to read and he has a much easier time. I used to be nuts for Archie comics because there was so much fashion! Well, 80s fashion, which is just mistakes. After that she has him make his own comic. Mal works on a comic too about a mouse, a squirrel, and a crow having adventures. It damned well better be autobiographical there, Pike. Then they take a story from a comic and read half then write their own ending. I did this in fourth grade and we had to finish a chapter of Charlotte's Web and in mine Wilber ran into the woods and was eaten by wolves. I still remember I ended it with 'And the wolves lived happily ever after'. And I illustrated it. And my teacher loved it. He read it to the class and to some of the other teachers and I got an A. Anyways, Buddy is a lot happier and so is Mal and that's nice for her. It's always fun when you indoctrinate children. Like my cousin had a birthday so I got him a space lesbians dvd. Teach 'em young.
Part 1!
-Song of the Day!-
Chapter 6!
It's Mal's first session of tutoring Buddy and Jessi will be along to watch the girls. Mal is looking forward to teaching Buddy because she loves to read and would like him to too. I get that way too but everyone in my family hate books and anything to do with being smart so, it's just a lost cause with most of them. When she gets there Buddy wants nothing to do with learning and it dampers Mal's enthusiasm. But she motors through and tries to teach him through flashcards. She tells him for every word he gets right, he gets a minute of free time. But because Buddy gets almost none of them right, he gets discouraged. Mal moves on to helping him with his homework and he stalls around till Mal tells him he used up some of his free time. He gets to work and Mal kinda does nothing till it's time to check his work. He got most of it wrong so Mal has him redo it. Mal starts thinking about how she thought this would be easy and that there has to be a better way to get Buddy reading.
Chapter 7!
When Mal gets home, she tries to work out a plan to get Buddy interested in reading. She says the stories in his reader aren't interesting, and I dunno. I always liked the stories in our school readers. They were usually excerpts from chapter books. Once we had The Doubtful Guest and I totally fell in love with Edward Gorey. We also had The Raven and I fell in love with Poe. Mal can't think of any good ideas so she stops to read some of Sophie's diary.
Sophie is hot for some guy and he's hot for her so good for them. Sophie's mum get preggo but dies a few days after giving birth. After that, a portrait of Sophie's mum disappears from the house. Sophie's grandfather (Old Hickory from the Bad Luck Mystery book) accuses Sophie's dad of stealing it and write the family out of his will. Sophie is convinced that her dad didn't do it and vows to haunt the house if she can't clear her father's name. Mal pisses herself because, oh, my Lord! Stacey's house might be haunted! She wants to call Stacey to tell her about it, but it's late and she has to get to bed. Oh, well.
Chapter 8!
Nope! I'm not reading anything to do with that brat Karen! I don't care about their third floor they're all afraid of for no damned good reason. Or why the Hell Charlie and Sam don't claim it as a swinging bachelor pad. Let's look at something actually cute instead!
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Aww, yeah! I've said it before but Mal books always rock because she always describes everyone's clothes! I wonder if it's the ghosties doing like, 'Ann hates this character, let's put in some outfit descriptions so everyone buys her books and reads them over and over again.' I know it worked on me.
Jessi-a long, heart-covered sweat shirt over her dance leotard and a pair of pink pants that (although you couldn’t see this) I knew were held up at the waist with a drawstring
Mal-boring old jeans, but a top that I liked a lot - a big white long-sleeved T-shirt that said I ♥ KIDS across the front
Mary Anne-a very cool short printed jumper over a striped shirt. You might think that those two things would clash, but they didn’t. They looked great together. The jumper was white with a small red print, and the shirt was white with narrow, widely-spaced stripes
Claudia-jeans, a plain white blouse, a pink sweater, white socks, and loafers. She said she’d gone back to the fifties for the day.
Stacey-a short-sleeved blue-and-white jumpsuit with cuffed pants. Parts of it were striped, parts were solid. On her feet were high-topped sneakers laced only halfway up so that she could roll the tongue of the shoe down (extremely cool), plus she was wearing a lot of jewelry
Dawn-pants and a baggy sweat shirt - but on her head was a small straw hat
Wow. Where do I begin? Probably with Mal's shirt. How many years do you think she has before it becomes creepy? I also find it pretty funny that she has a shirt declaring her love for kids when she is a kid. I think I'll by Jynx a collar that says 'I ♥ cats!' Mary Anne's outfit sounds like something I would wear. I just bought me a black jumper and I love it to pieces. I can wear my nerdy ass shirts and still be feminine. Claudia is also looking pretty nice. Stacey on the other hand. Yikes. That's pure 80s nightmare fuel right there. Not only a multi-patterned jumpsuit but one that's pegged?! I repeat, yikes.
During a lull in the meeting, Mal asks Stacey if she's noticed anything...unusual at her house. Stacey is like, yeah, it got clean and Mal is like, I meant ghostly unusual. Stacey is like, no and everyone laughs at Mal because of course they do. Because it's not like K. Ron wasn't ghost hunting in the previous chapter. Dawn tries to make everything about herself as usual, by saying maybe Sophie's father Jared is the same one who supposedly haunts her secret passage. Dawn I snarked that book ( baby's first snark!) and there was no evidence that your house was the one Jared Mullray lived in. And if he was living in Stacey's house, why the fuck would he be haunting yours? Just sit down, shut the Hell up and stop trying to seem special.
Chapter 10!
Mal's second session with Buddy and this time she's better prepared. She brings along Archie comics for him to read and he has a much easier time. I used to be nuts for Archie comics because there was so much fashion! Well, 80s fashion, which is just mistakes. After that she has him make his own comic. Mal works on a comic too about a mouse, a squirrel, and a crow having adventures. It damned well better be autobiographical there, Pike. Then they take a story from a comic and read half then write their own ending. I did this in fourth grade and we had to finish a chapter of Charlotte's Web and in mine Wilber ran into the woods and was eaten by wolves. I still remember I ended it with 'And the wolves lived happily ever after'. And I illustrated it. And my teacher loved it. He read it to the class and to some of the other teachers and I got an A. Anyways, Buddy is a lot happier and so is Mal and that's nice for her. It's always fun when you indoctrinate children. Like my cousin had a birthday so I got him a space lesbians dvd. Teach 'em young.