The title of “Maid Mary Anne” confused me a bit. Mary Anne is struggling with the fact that she thinks she’s self-centered. She gets wrapped up in taking care of one older woman and starts letting other things slide. One time she cleaned the kitchen but the remainder of the time she basically just did a bunch of fetching and talking. The older woman was […]
September 2020 Nostalgia Reviews {Stephanie’s Review}
Oof. This one hits a lot differently in 2020. I very much doubt it would be published the same way today. Stacey has a big crush on her college aged math teacher. Reading this book was a lot of second hand embarrassment. Eventually Stacey figured it out. This review is purposely short because….YIKES. I really like this one…until the end. Wandering around a well maintained […]
June 2020 BSC Nostalgia Reads {Stephanie’s Review}
This really wasn’t a mystery at all but I still really enjoyed it. I loved seeing Janine and Claudia start to bond. I missed so much of this with my own sister. (Don’t worry! We’re besties now!) I really liked seeing a different dimension to Janine. I also appreciated that Claudia wasn’t the one in trouble this round! There seems to be a trend through […]
May 2020 BSC Nostalgia Reviews {Stephanie’s Review}
This was the BSC book I didn’t know I needed! I never knew what happened to Mary Anne’s mother and this book answered so many of those questions for me and for Mary Anne! It did make my opinions of Richard even more divided. I mean I can understand not wanting to go into all of it but Mary Anne should have known the basics […]
April 2020 BSC Nostalgia Read Wrap Up
This book was a quick read and I read it during the pop up Bout of Books in April. Kristy is the last person to see Jake before he goes missing. If you are a child of the 80s or early 90s you’ll remember the Stranger Danger campaign. This book had some aspects of that because missing child. A lot was happening in Kristy and […]