I’m back! I really needed that blog break over the last couple months as I had to let go of some of the expectations on myself (particularly the self-imposed ones that, in the grand scheme of things, aren’t going to affect anyone really!) in order to get some work stuff done that really needed doing AND keep my sanity and well-being while doing it. However, things are calming down and I should be back to whatever normal is for this […]

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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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Here it is: my final “What I Read” post for 2020 (granted it is 2021 when you’re reading about them)! I’m pretty proud of what I managed to accomplish this year, reading-wise. However, that was simply because I had more time, and not because I worked any harder at it than in previous years. I love to read, but it often falls by the wayside for other things I need to do so it really all depends on how busy […]

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After a few weeks of losing a ton of steam on this reading, I am back! I am getting so close to the end, I don’t want to stop now! Changing it up a little bit to just include a little summary and my thoughts. I very much doubt the series will make it this far. We open this installment with Abby in Wonderland (#121). And… it was weird. Abby, Anna and their mother travel to the Hamptons for vacation […]

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If you’ve been keeping up with this series, you know the drill and the title of the post says it all, so let’s jump right in! In book one hundred and eleven, Stacey’s Secret Friend, a new girl comes to town, and Stacey just gets it all wrong. When she learns that the other eighth graders are making fun of new girl Tess Swinhart (calling her Swinehart and generally comparing her to pigs), she makes it her mission to protect […]

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