First, thanks for snarking a book that hasn't been completely snarked before! I always like when people do that.
"Happy families are all alike." Then how come they always go on about how OMGCAHRAZY Kristy's family is? I mean, WE know that any household with Karen in it is a very unhappy one, but that's not what these girls think.
Mary Anne agonizes that her family isn't like others so maybe they aren't happy ...And here we go. Again, the reason your family is unhappy isn't because it's a blended family, it's because you live with Dawn. Don't worry, that problem's going to be solved in the next book.
Wtf Mary Anne is running late for a job with the Arnolds as Dawn offers to wash her plate and MA fawns for 2 paragraphs about how amazing that is and she hopes she would have done the same. Why are they washing their dishes individually instead of taking it in turns to wash the lot like a normal family? Does Dawn gag if she has to WASH a plate that's touched meat? Is this why Mary Anne is swooning over her incredible act of generosity
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Especially considering that Mal is ELEVEN. If you don't know where your eleven-year-old will be on Thursday afternoon, I think there are some issues. I'll give her the small benefit of the doubt and assume that she was asking if Mal had already booked another sitting job during that meeting. Then again, this is the Pikes and Stoneybrooke, where parents probably wouldn't notice if their kids stole the Junk Bucket and hopped it to Vegas for a week, so maybe not.
"Maid Mary Anne", har har. Although it isn't so bad as titles go.
Yes, Dawn/MA washing their own individual dishes bothered me, too - why wouldn't you just pile them up and wait for one person to do the washing up? It's weird because Richard seems like he would've insisted they eat at the same time, at the table, as opposed to letting MA watch TV and help herself to meals, so it's not like they would each have to rinse their own dishes. Mm, MA strikes me as the type to like tea - and I know she's only thirteen, but come on, that's almost adulthood in these books.
Great job snarking this :) I laughed so hard at the bits about the Pikes.
It's weird because Richard seems like he would've insisted they eat at the same time, at the table He does! My first thought was that it says so in Dawn and the Fat Shaming Is Awesome, because I snarked that book, but they're also described as eating together in this very scene. I get why this exchange was there, but there are a million and one less contrived ways it could have been done.
"Maid Mary Anne", har har. Although it isn't so bad as titles go. And now I'm hearing "Mistress Mavis left the broom in my fanny!"
Stoppppp I am having bad images about Mary Anne and Mavis.
They were all eating breakfast together, but like, it seemed implied they each were supposed to wash their own plate? That makes no sense, why wouldn't one person wash them all.
"Happy families are all alike." Well we all know Lerangis likes to begin his books with onomatopoeia, I guess Nola Thacker likes to begin hers by quoting Russian Literature
Anna Karenina... +shudders+ The third worst book I read for Lit in high school.
Dawn offers to wash her plate and MA fawns for 2 paragraphs about how amazing that is
This makes me wonder - is having a dishwasher a status symbol in Stoneybrook?
Thacker left out whole point of the quote! The actual opening line is: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Kinda changes the insinuation.
I lived all throughout southern California and moved to New Hampshire (not too far from Connecticut) and the writers ARE idiots. 85 degrees in New England is ten times worse than a hundred degrees in San Diego-- it is totally the humidity and it is cloying.
I WISH these books, and others, were visited upon by wizards.
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"Happy families are all alike."
Then how come they always go on about how OMGCAHRAZY Kristy's family is? I mean, WE know that any household with Karen in it is a very unhappy one, but that's not what these girls think.
Mary Anne agonizes that her family isn't like others so maybe they aren't happy
...And here we go. Again, the reason your family is unhappy isn't because it's a blended family, it's because you live with Dawn. Don't worry, that problem's going to be solved in the next book.
Wtf Mary Anne is running late for a job with the Arnolds as Dawn offers to wash her plate and MA fawns for 2 paragraphs about how amazing that is and she hopes she would have done the same. Why are they washing their dishes individually instead of taking it in turns to wash the lot like a normal family? Does Dawn gag if she has to WASH a plate that's touched meat? Is this why Mary Anne is swooning over her incredible act of generosity ( ... )
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Yes, Dawn/MA washing their own individual dishes bothered me, too - why wouldn't you just pile them up and wait for one person to do the washing up? It's weird because Richard seems like he would've insisted they eat at the same time, at the table, as opposed to letting MA watch TV and help herself to meals, so it's not like they would each have to rinse their own dishes. Mm, MA strikes me as the type to like tea - and I know she's only thirteen, but come on, that's almost adulthood in these books.
Great job snarking this :) I laughed so hard at the bits about the Pikes.
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He does! My first thought was that it says so in Dawn and the Fat Shaming Is Awesome, because I snarked that book, but they're also described as eating together in this very scene. I get why this exchange was there, but there are a million and one less contrived ways it could have been done.
"Maid Mary Anne", har har. Although it isn't so bad as titles go.
And now I'm hearing "Mistress Mavis left the broom in my fanny!"
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They were all eating breakfast together, but like, it seemed implied they each were supposed to wash their own plate? That makes no sense, why wouldn't one person wash them all.
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Anna Karenina... +shudders+ The third worst book I read for Lit in high school.
Dawn offers to wash her plate and MA fawns for 2 paragraphs about how amazing that is
This makes me wonder - is having a dishwasher a status symbol in Stoneybrook?
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The other two books were O Pioneers and Things Fall Apart.
Additional: I was the only person in my class who liked Grendel and hated Beowulf. Everyone else was the other way around.
Maybe it's because I could tell that Beowulf was an asshole all the time.
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I WISH these books, and others, were visited upon by wizards.
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