We’re getting up there in the numbers of the BSC series, but we’re not even halfway there yet! So let’s jump right in today shall we? In book sixty-one, Jessi and the Awful Secret, we veer away from the major group of the BSC a lot and focus more on Jessi and her dance school friends. One of her classmates, Mary, begins acting strangely and becomes very concerned about her weight. Jessi realizes that she is likely anorexic, or at […]

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In this installment of my rereading of the BSC, I am adding a new little feature. I’m calling it “episode-a-bility” and I’m using it as a ranking scale to determine whether or not I think it would make a good episode for the Netflix show. Kind of wish I had done this the whole time, but – well, things evolve as I work on them and this is just one of those evolutions. The episode-ability scale is simple: a ten […]

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In what would appear to be an effort to read as many regular books as Baby-sitters Club books this year (impossible), August was chockfull of new reads. Some were books I have been dabbling with for along time, in that I kept starting them and then reading something else… and some of those books are the something else (a.k.a. the new and interesting books I saw while I was still trying to finish other books)! Beartown, by Fredric Backman After […]

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As you can tell from the title of this post, there was A LOT going on in the world of the BSC for this installment of my rereads. Not only did I read the five requisite books, but there were two mysteries, a super special and a special edition reader’s request all about Logan! I can remember not really enjoying the special reader’s request, but I made a commitment to read all the BSC books in order, and it’s happening! […]

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Believe it or not, I do still manage to read books that aren’t a part of The Baby-Sitters Club series. And with school being over for the year and no remote learning responsibilities (or social ones, for that matter), I have more reading time than ever. So let’s jump in. The Shadows, by Alex North was part of my Book of the Month Club box for the month. I had heard of North’s other work (The Whisper Man – see […]

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Moving right along with my rereading of the BSC and coming up with plots I definitely want to see the new series tackle and others that I know can be easily set to the side and I won’t miss them. Though, truth be told, I am so happy with how the series came out, I think I would be good with almost anything. However, there are certain things that 100% need to be in the series (hello, Stacey’s parents’ divorce […]

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Instead of overloading my page with BSC-related posts, I figured I’d do my catch up book post with the latest fifteen books, and clump them together a tad to make things easier. So this post is going to cover books 26-40 as well as Super Specials 3, 4, & 5. A lot of material to cover so let’s jump right in. It’s time for another Super Special! In third double-sized installment, Baby-sitters’ Winter Vacation, the gang heads to Vermont for […]

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You may (or may not) have noticed that I took June off. I didn’t do this on purpose at first, but after a week of being too busy to come up with posts, I decided to let myself have time to finish up all the work I needed to do. I was creating my school’s virtual graduation for our 8th graders, and it took up a lot more of my days than I thought it would, though in retrospect I […]

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This month, I continued to dive into the world of the Baby-Sitters Club, however I also managed a few books outside of the series as well. First up was Salt to the Sea, by Ruta Sepetys. The book took place during World War II and followed a diverse group of characters in their mission to reach the Wilhelm Gustloff, a boat that transported refugees to safety. The boat, however, is not a safe haven for the refugees that reach it. […]

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