The Great Baby-Sitters Club Reread and More Travel Photos
reat Baby-sitters Club reread!
My Agatha Christie reread has been slightly derailed...by the Great Baby-sitters Club Reread!
My daughter's reading the books for the first time and I'm rereading them along with her, my first reread in a decade or so. I'm amazed at how well the books hold up!
Obviously the references to clothes are very 80s and some of the more sensitive topics are treated with a rather light hand, but then, the whole series is written that way -- light and fun and warmhearted. I always wanted to live in that town and have a great big group of happy friends and neighbours. Obviously there are problems and fights that come up, but overall the friendships and loyalty are strong.
I barely got up to book 50 before I stopped reading them for the first time, at age 13 or so, and I don't think we'll go any further than that this time -- for one thing, after around book 40, Scholastic started using ghost writers (even though Ann M Martin edited and approved each book); for another, I don't think we can afford it (even secondhand); and for yet another, I think the timeline starts getting a bit messed up. I mean for how long can the girls in the club be in eighth grade? It all starts to get a bit beyond the point at which I can suspend my disbelief.
We've just held a Dark Matter blog tour!
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Here are all the tour stops:
Thanks so much to all the hosts!
And now...more trip photos!
These are from the same weekend away as when we went to Montreaux and Charlie Chaplin's house. We also spent two nights in a pod! My first time glamping...
How far can you see?
What season are you in?
Which season are you looking forward to?
Comments
Congratulations on Dark Matter!
I used to skip those bits, too! Funny that now that I'm rereading them, I don't skip them, because it's interesting from a writer's point of view to see how they're slightly different in each book, and fit in with each character's voice!