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3.64 AVERAGE
3.64 AVERAGE
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This book does a good job of tackling: jealousy, best friends, divorce, and how the baby-sitter and the client need to work together.
This book does a good job of tackling: jealousy, best friends, divorce, and how the baby-sitter and the client need to work together.
I really love all of these. Such quick reads but are interesting and the 90s nostalgia is the best.
I read this on the last day of 2019 and squeezed it in as the 118th book I read that year. I listened to the last hour or so on my back porch, but I fell asleep. I had to look up the synopsis online and find out how it ended. Whoops. I keep trying to find out who my favorite BSC member is and my favorite at the moment is Dawn! She was very sweet and helpful in Mary Anne Saves the Day where I wanted to know more about her. She may be a vegetarian (right on but I just like meat too much) but her heart expands past animals and is an excellent friend. She's kind, loyal, and sweet as can be. I am eagerly awaiting when her mom and Mary Ann's father get married. This book was good and I liked reading from Dawn's perspective but the mother she was babysitting for was an utter mess. This book showcased not every parent is a good one and it can affect their children adversely. I wish I hadn't fallen asleep but Elle Fanning's dulcet tones reading BSC is just that blissful. I don't have any more Audible credits but I did find a used bookstore that will happily add to my collection. Sweet dreams, Dawn!
In which Dawn schools a disorganized mother and fights for her right to fair working conditions. I am pretty sure I never liked Dawn and her tofu-eating ways (although she does eat an "all natural" frozen pizza in this book--does that even exist?), but I actually liked her this time around. I guess I can sympathize with her move across the country and disenchantment with the east coast. Plus, she's pretty ballsy when she stands up to the mom she's babysitting for.
In case anyone is curious, I am re-reading these books to listen to the podcast 'The Babysitters Club Club' which thus far (four episodes in) is hilarious, though not safe to listen to in front of actual children (lots of swearing).
This one wasn't too bad, although if I peruse it again tomorrow I will probably find things to snark about. The title is misleading, however, as the children aren't really that impossible - just their mother.
I remember bits and pieces of each of these books before I've started rereading and plenty of memories rush back. But this fifth book, the introduction of Dawn and her first story, I remembered nothing. I had to read the description to find out what happens. But very slowly it came back as I started to listen. Dawn is adjusting to life in Connecticut after sunny California. She whines a lot about the cold like a lot. She yells at the weather man on the radio if its colder than 70 degrees outside, which to my northern Ontario blood is quite warm almost no jacket weather. And while I've never been to California I do know from people who have been that it can get quite cool there so I call BS on some of those complaints. Anyway she's not only getting used to the weather, but her new friends. Kristy reprises her role as a pain in the ass this time toward Dawn, as Mary Anne actually has gotten some independence and found a friend on her own. But they eventually patch things up while talking of divorce and how it affected their lives. She and Mary Anne continue to hope for their parents to decide to marry one day and it appears that they might. But the main story is about a new family in town. The Barretts, a single mom, who is beautiful and well put together. She has gone through a messy divorce and it has left her in a tailspin. Unable to care for her three children Buddy, Suzy and Marnie, barely able to take care of herself. Dawn walks into a house in chaos. The kitchen filled with dirty dishes, every room in disarray, baby Marnie in a dirty diaper, the two older children looking equally rough. Soon Dawn finds herself in the mother role to these kids. She cleans the house, helps the kids with homework and they begin to call her when they need some help. Finally Dawn grows a back bone and explains that she is just twelve years old and that she has taken on too much while sitting for the kids. Mrs. Barrett the mess that she is agrees to step up and be a mother to her kids at long last. Despite not remembering this book at all I really enjoyed it. A part of me felt bad for Mrs. Barrett. I mean since my mom died I've been a bit of a mess at times too, but while I don't have kids I do have pets and I certainly don't leave them without giving instructions and letting people know how to reach me. There again was mention of a cell phone, leaving me to wonder if residents of Stoneybrook were ahead of their time or if maybe the books got some kind of sneaky update along the way to make them relevant to modern readers. Who knows? The only real memories I had were the dirty house Marnie's ham face and that annoying bizzer sign. But it just wasn't that memorable for me I guess. Onto the next book, having cycled through the first five and revisit the other girls perspectives.
This series keeps getting better, and since it’s been ages since I’ve read BSC books, I love the refreshers in GN form 💕
Who doesn't love the baby sitters club? I reread this recently to recall the nostalgia of my elementary school years and loved it. The BSC are great role models for young women.