This month has not been a productive one for reading. Well, I should probably rephrase that. This month has not been productive for reading anything outside of the Baby-Sitters Club canon. However, around Thanksgiving I managed to eke out some non-BSC reads in an effort to make sure I stayed at least a tiny bit on track for my “read fifty books that aren’t BSC books” goal. My basic review of both books that I read was that they were […]

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Another week, another installment of “Kelly Rereads Books Written for Preteen Girls” (a.k.a. “Rereading The Baby-Sitters Club“). That would probably be a lot weirder if these weren’t books I read and loved as a preteen girl myself and that I am now revisiting in this strange, strange pandemic year we’re having. So let’s jump in. In book one hundred and six, Claudia, Queen of the Seventh Grade, Claudia is literally voted Queen of the Seventh Grade, a title which doesn’t […]

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We’ve got a big bunch of books today as I combined two installments again. Though the first was chock full of books, but the second was only the usual five books plus two mysteries and so it made sense to combine, not to mention the fact that I’m reading them faster than I can write about them at this point. Book ninety-six, Abby’s Lucky Thirteen, explores the Jewish traditional of the bat mitzvah. Abby and her sister Anna are preparing […]

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In my rereading of the BSC books, I am almost positive we are now in territory I didn’t read as a kid. However, I know there is at least one book I definitely did read in this cluster, leading me to believe that I just got more selective about the BSC books I did read. All the books in this section were published from 1995-1996 which means that I was a freshman in high school. So… yeah. Maybe I don’t […]

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In between working, getting ready for Halloween, working on new sewing projects, and voraciously consuming Baby-Sitters Club books, I managed to squeeze in some non-children’s books, including a new book from a favorite author! Invisible Girl, by Lisa Jewell. I love a good Lisa Jewell book and this one was no exception. In her latest novel, Jewell tells the story of a small group of people living in a London neighborhood. The action revolves around the Fours family, the patriarch […]

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You know the drill by now. Here’s my latest installment of my nostalgia reading of the BSC! We must be at least partially in the realm of when I started to outgrow the series, though I know from upcoming titles that I at least read some of them. To be honest? I kind of gave up after Dawn left, even though in this installment she hasn’t quite left officially yet. In fact, she’s initially back… but then swiftly gone again. […]

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A week from today we are holding my annual work Halloween costume contest for the staff. It’s a little different this year. No group costumes and only two categories, but it is our tradition and I’m really happy we’re still doing it! So today I’m doing what I call a “fake new episode.” I needed a post for today but had no idea what to post. Remote teaching is so much busier now than it was back in March when […]

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As you can tell from the title of this post, this is a doozy of a BSC reread installment. There were a whopping fourteen books, in a number of different categories, including another one of the special letter books (Secret Santa). This installment also introduces the Portrait Collection, which focuses on one BSC member at a time and, after a couple of posts without a single super special, this one has TWO! Still reading these in hyper-drive to keep listening […]

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Two BSC rereads posts in a row! I try to space these out a little more, but I’m in between sewing projects right now and it was either a BSC reread post or nothing for today, so here we go. I believe at this point in my rereading the BSC journey I am more than halfway finished with the regular series. However, I also believe there are at least five more super specials, a number of mysteries, a few super-mysteries, […]

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