#98: Dawn and Too Many Sitters, Chapters 1-3

[apostrophiliac]

I’m cursing myself for having gotten rid of so many of these when I moved out of my parents’ house. Once upon a time, my bookshelves were a veritable rainbow of pastel spines and Hodges’s Uncanny Valley landscapes. Now the only ones I can find are Jessi’s Wish and the clusterfuck du jour: Dawn and Too Many Sitters.

That said, this should be good

Comments

[hobbes12]

I LOVED this book. I read it sooo many times - mostly because my library kept getting rid of BSC books over time but this one was always there for some reason. And I love that Jeff and the triplets actually act like real children while simultaneously making fun of the BSC.

God I never thought about Maggie and the leather jacket before. Why is Dawn only on a food crusade and not all the other products that animals are used in??

You know Sharon's middle name. That's impressive.

“Dawn, I hope to God that Jamie Newton is a kind of bourbon.” Awesome.

[kakeochi_umai]

It's the one where the boys turn the Cult upside down with fart jokes and other realistic ten-year-old boy behaviour! I'm so happy you're snarking this!

Knowledge is sexy.
Amen to this. I've always loved it when snarkers rip poorly researched books to shreds with their actual knowledge on the topic at hand, and I'm particularly looking forward to seeing what a cult expert has to say about Ms. Hubbard.

And why exactly should they have to miss Little League? Isn’t the point of a multi-member club to schedule appointments around people’s prior commitments?THIS. And I love that we're actually supposed to tut-tut at the Pike triplets for not wanting to let down a TEAM they'd already made a commitment to

[metamorphstorm]

“Isn’t the point of a multi-member club to schedule appointments around people’s prior commitments? Jessi doesn’t miss dance recitals to sit for Becca and Squirt.” - Well said!

. . . Also, the ‘point’ of the multi-member club was that parents can call one number and be guaranteed an available sitter, but yes, that should also mean that the girls don’t have to miss extracurricular classes and stuff.

“Dawn martyrs a little about how her Stoneybrook friends tease her for her beliefs, but she doesn’t care.” - I hate it when she says they tease her, because I’ve never seen it. I’ve seen Dawn lecture Claudia and the others on their diets; I’ve seen Dawn whine (lying, too) that Claudia never provides healthy snacks at BSC meetings . . . what I’ve never seen is Claudia complaining that her friends expect her to share her personal stash of junk food without paying her back for it, or that her friends never clean up the messes (I don’t recall any mention of the club members cleaning up after a meeting) they make in her room. Claud caters to

[shatisarockgod]

(She’s in her thirties, but she tries to sound young.)--*rolls eyes* Because I guess you'd be happier if she talked like a granny instead, eh