I have to start reading these books more fiendishly as I just finished binging all the episodes of The Baby-Sitters Club Club podcast of the books I’ve read, and I want to events to be fresh in my mind when I listen to the guys talk about the books! So we’re going to jump right into this installment. Book sixty-six, Maid Mary Anne, was fun mainly because it was all about sewing! However, storyline-wise, it was more “meh.” Mary Anne […]

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Though I’m busier than I’ve been in months, I still found time to read tons of BSC books and an additional three “regular” books this month. If I’m being honest, it’s getting harder and harder to read regular books after reading all these much lower level books so much, so I should probably amp up the adult books for next month. As I said last month, Viveca Sten’s books are hit or miss for me, but as they are a […]

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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. In book twenty-six, Claudia and the Sad Good-bye, Martin once again brings us into a heavier area for our […]

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