Confession time: after spending a year largely reading books intended for pre-teens, I am finding it really, really difficult to concentrate on longer books now. Either that, or I am just not finding the right books these days despite constantly trying different ones. This is something I hope to rectify this year, as I am generally a very avid reader and enjoy it very much. But it’s also not something I really want to force, since I would like it […]

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Well… here we are. The last of my BSC rereads posts. I decided to squeeze it in this week, even though Tuesday’s post was also a BSC reread post. But I finished the books last week, so might as well get this out into the world ASAP. This post features just four books, the final three Friends Forever books and the one remaining California Diaries book. This installment begins with Welcome Home, Mary Anne. The new Schafer-Spier barn house is […]

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A new era has officially begun! I have moved on from the main BSC canon into the Friends Forever series! This is the final leg of the journey to reread (or read for the first time, as is the case with these as by this time in original publication date I was a new high school graduate and had long since outgrown these books). My original goal had been to finish it all by the end of 2020, but now […]

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So… I finished the main series. In this special installation I have the FINAL six BSC books… and one random California Diaries that fell in between them. If I had gotten here as a kid, I would’ve spent days being sad about the end of my beloved book series. As an adult who has been frantically trying to read them all within a year of time, it’s a bit of a relief, though there is a touch of emotion there […]

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