Warning: Contains Spoilers!!! This is a recap blog which means I read the book and tell you everything that happens so you don't have to read it yourself. Do NOT continue to read unless you want to know which girl was a total bitch in this book. Because you know at least one of them was.
Tag Line: Who's idea was this, anyway? (Lame tag line. Super lame.)From the Back of the Book: One strike and they might be out. Everyone is working hard on the big annual Almost Summer Carnival when the Canby Hall maintenance crew goes on strike! The headmistress wants to close the school and cancel the carnival, but Toby and Andy persuade her to let the students take over the most essential jobs. Suddenly laundry comes back in strange colors and the cafeteria produces even stranger food. But the girls discover unexpected new talents. Work is piling up and time is short. Can the carnival be saved? The girls of 407 get a totally unexpected answer to their question.
This was published in 1987 which
means I've owned this particular book for 30 years, y'all. This is
one of the few Canby books I kept so I feel like I must have loved it. (???) The funny
thing is, I haven't reread it. I reread books all the time. I just
finished my billionth reread of The Westing Game. Awesome book, by the way. So why have I never reread this book that I went to all the trouble of keeping for 30 years? Hmmmm. There must be a reason. I don't
know whether to look forward to this or not.
The ghostie for this book is Diane Hoh,
which only increases my dilemma. I have a long-standing history of
finding Hoh irritating even though the rest of the
PH-blogging universe loves her. So why did I keep this book? I guess
we're going to jump in and find out but my gut suggests it probably
has to do with Cary.
#teamCary
Canby Hall Catch-Up: You guys know the
basics. We have three protagonists (Jane – high society
princess, Andy – urban ballerina and Toby – small
town ranch girl). Jane is dating Cary-the-rock-god from the
nearby boys' school Oakley Prep. Andy is loosely dating a boy from
town named Matt who does lighting for Cary's band. Or Steve
who works in her family's rib shack. It just depends on her
geographic location at the moment. Toby is dating Jane's ex Neal
(which is just fine with Jane) and crushing on Randy a local
rancher who has magical aging powers that allow him to be a new age
in every book. In the last book, the ghostie pulled off an all-out
character assassination on Toby turning her into a whining, selfish
shrew. Toby was depressed because of the long winter, so Jane
offered to throw her (and Dee from 409) a party. Andy was consumed
with a term paper she'd neglected until the last moment and Gigi
made life miserable for the occupants of 407. We also met Laura
Lee with her bad heart PTSD and the 407 girls rallied all of
Baker House to bully Gigi into submission. It was a train wreck of a
book.
I hope Hoh redeems Toby this book.
Last book almost made me cry.
I just noticed something odd. Have you all noticed that
these covers seem to be Jane-centric? With a couple of exceptions,
the covers usually feature Jane doing something and Toby and Andy off
to the side reacting to it. Even the “Andy” book which focused
on the girls being in Chicago has Jane front and center on the cover.
Why? If these were real people, Toby and Andy would be bitching to
their managers to get them better cover positions. Why is Jane so
effing special? Because she's a blue-eyed blonde? Hmmmmmmmmmm.
I've stalled long enough. It's time to
actually read this thing.
We open with our three protagonists
from Room 407 on the front lawn with various other Canby and Oakley
Prep students. For some reason, in this book, Matt is now an Oakley Prep student. A book ago he was a "townie". (#fuckcontinuity) They are painting signs for the Almost Summer
Carnival (ASC - it gets bolded like Kelly's hat because it's practically a character) that the schools hold jointly every year. In the
first few pages, Hoh makes sure we know Toby has a Texas twang, Andy
does everything super gracefully and Jane is elegant and wears solid
gold hair clips. Which.....would be SUPER heavy, Hoh. Cary makes a
joke about Jane getting dunked in the tank and messing up her proper
Bostonion clothes and Jane fumes, wishing he had just a fraction of
Neal's class. Glad we're back to normal here. It really shattered me when I had to name Jane the Least Annoying Person in Greenleaf last book.
#whatabitch
#teamCary
By the way, Hoh reminds us that Cary's
hair is nearly as long as Jane's. Judging by the front cover, that's
pretty damn long. So why do the cover artists always give him short hair?
READ THE BOOK!
Jane insists that the girls should be
exempt from the dunk tank because it will ruin their hair. Matt calls her out for being sexist but she doesn't care.
Andy firmly tells her that the girls will be doing all the things the
boys will be doing. Before they can get down to assigning
volunteers, a girl comes out to tell them that Merrie
(housemother) wants to see the 407 girls in her room immediately.
The girls are instantly concerned. When they get up to Merrie's room, she looks upset. She tells
them that the maintenance staff has gone on strike because they are
being asked to perform the same amount of work in fewer hours. This
includes plumbers, electricians, janitorial staff, carpenters,
cleaners (which is different from janitorial exactly how, Hoh???) and
some of the food service workers. As a result, PA (head bitch
in charge) has cancelled the ASC and might have to close the school.
Oh noes.
Why are the girls from 407 the only ones being told about this? It's like the adults in this universe see them as some kind of supreme beings or something. Given their penchant for fucking everything up, this view has no basis in reality whatsoever. I'm actually surprised no one contacted Dana-the-life-ruiner, Shelley-the-drama-llama or Faith-the-sanctimonious to solve this little dispute. Considering how much they are worshipped in these books, you'd think it would have been an obvious move.
Jane and Toby don't understand what a
strike is or what it means to the operation of the school. Jane throws an entitled
little fit about things being messed up by those awful workers who
should just come back and do their jobs. Andy immediately jumps up
and says that the students will just have to pitch in with things
like laundry and cleaning and lawn work while the strike is going on.
Merrie points out that they'll be undermining the workers who want
the school to feel the burden of their absence, but Andy doesn't give
any fucks about that. She just wants to keep the school open so they
can have the carnival because that's all that matters to her.
#scabs
#screwtheworkers
The girls leave to rally the troops.
They decide to make chore charts so that they'll have a battle plan
to take to PA to make their case for the school and the ASC. Each
dorm will be responsible for running itself, while the three dorms
will take turns in the dining hall. Jane is not too thrilled about
any of this. She's a Barrett and they have help to do this kind of
thing for them. {delicate sniff} The other students seem more or less
on board. For now.
The girls take their plan to PA who is
dubious but willing to give them a chance. She doesn't want the
school to be closed either. She tells them that they can still have their
carnival if everything goes well but it's pretty clear that she's
expecting this to go horribly wrong. Smart woman.
Hoh treats us to a description of Room
407 which I'm going to skip because you've heard it all before. The
one thing to note is that Andy's bedspread is now being called
“geometric patterned” instead of “striped”. I guess Hoh
noticed the plaid bedspread on the last cover too. The girls get to
work on copying the chore charts for everyone in the school. By
hand. Which I don't think is even humanly possible. Even doing one
per room for all three dorms would take bloody forever.
Pesky logic aside,
the trouble starts immediately.
Jane-the-entitled is pissed off at the
employees for creating all this extra work for her. Andy comes down
on the side of the employees and makes a rather unkind remark about
Jane siding with management because they're “her people”. Which
is completely true, but still unkind to actually say out loud. Then
Jane tries to avoid putting her name on the chart beside any of the
chores. She claims that organizing the schedule is enough work for
her and she's going to be busy with the ASC and school. Andy shuts
that down right damn quick. Everyone has to do her share. She
assigns Jane to clean the bathroom on their floor. Jane's never done that before
and she's horrified at the very idea.
The next morning everyone is tired from
staying up late to copy the chore charts. They drag themselves out
of bed and report to work. Andy and Toby are assigned to help in the
dining hall and they find it much more difficult than working at the
rib shack. Jane heads for the bathroom but everyone is trying to get
their showers and get ready for the day so she goes back to her room
to take a nap and wait for them to finish up so she can clean.
Naturally Andy comes to check on her and finds her asleep.
Jane finds cleaning the bathroom a
Herculean task but she eventually prevails. She feels a glimmer of
sympathy for the employees that have to clean the bathrooms every day
but she squashes it like a bug on the kitchen floor. Those selfish
employees are the reason she has chapped hands and two broken nails, yo.
By the time the Oakley Prep boys arrive
that afternoon for carnival prep, Jane is exhausted and cranky. She
immediately snaps at Cary who reacts with sympathy knowing she's had
a hard day. He gently kisses her forehead even as she's glaring
daggers at him.
#teamCary
Andy has more tragic news for the group.
It turns out the maintenance crew builds new booths for the ASC every
year. Since there is no maintenance crew now, they will have to
build the booths themselves.
Really? They really build brand new
booths every single year? No wonder this school has money issues.
That's ridiculous.
The hardest thing will be making the
frame around the dunk tank. The tank itself is in the basement of
Baker House but they will have to build the frame and the mechanism.
Hoh can't seriously expect us to believe that this group of kids
knows how to wire up a dunk tank. Sheesh. My disbelief can't be suspended that much.
Some of the other girls are pretty
disgruntled by the end of the first day. There's talk about quitting
so PA will close the school and let everyone go home. The 407 girls
are shocked by this attitude. Don't those ungrateful bitches know
how much the 407 girls have sacrificed for them? How dare they act
like normal teenage girls who would rather be home lazing around
instead of doing an entire dorm's laundry? Ingrates.
Merrie comes by to tell Jane that she
needs to call home. Her mother has heard about the strike and she
isn't very happy to have her daughter there. This seems like a
normal parent reaction to me. She wants Jane to come home
immediately. Jane argues that she can't because she'd miss too much
in her classes and probably fail the year. I'm not sure the school
could fail a student for going home during a strike but Jane's mother
buys it. She says that Jane can stay for now, but at the first hint
of trouble she'll be on the first train home.
Jane's mother isn't the only parent who
feels this way. By the end of the second day, more than 30 girls
have been pulled from school. This messes up the chore charts in a
major way and Jane becomes even more annoyed. She stamps her feet
and cries and rages against the strike and the workers and the
parents and I just really want to smack her.
Later that afternoon, Randy arrives on
campus looking like a “healthy farm man”. Seriously.
That's what Hoh wrote to describe him. A healthy farm man. {guffaw}
Randy is 21 again in this book despite being 19 a few books ago.
He's so magical. He offers to drive some of the boys to town to pick up
the wood they need to build the booths. Toby goes along too. Before
getting to work on carnival business, Andy announces that she's going
to dash to the dining hall to pick up cold drinks for the people on
the picket line. Jane is incensed that Andy is going to “baby”
the assholes that are making her work so hard. Andy and Cary both
take Jane to task for being spoiled and insensitive but she's sure
the problem is them and not her.
Meanwhile, Toby and the boys have run
into their own trouble. She has a signed voucher from PA to put the
wood on Canby's tab but the lumber yard won't accept it. Because the
school might close at any minute, he has to have cash or he won't do
business with them. Randy steps in and tells the owner that he's
being a jackass. Canby's always paid their bills and they always
will. Apparently the ranch does a lot of business with the
lumberyard and Randy threatens to take his business elsewhere. The
owner finally relents and lets them have the wood.
When Toby and the wood arrive back on
campus so late, Jane is furious. She snaps at Toby...Cary defends
Toby because Jane's being a bitch...then Jane accuses Toby of making
her and Cary fight. Fun times. They call it quits for the day and
head back to the dorm. Everything is in chaos. The place is filthy
and there are no clean towels. Jane's sheets have met a laundry
accident and are now pea green. She does a lot more whining and hair
tossing. I didn't think Jane's character could get more unlikable
after the Party Time book but I was wrong. Hoh has taken unlikable
to epic new levels in this book.
At least Toby is back to normal.
The next day they tackle the carnival
booths. It becomes apparent fairly quickly that Jane is useless as a
carpenter. Cary sends her to the dining hall to bring everyone else
cold drinks. Before she can accomplish this task....which she finds
EXTREMELY beneath her by the way {delicate sniff}....Merrie
intercepts her. PA has signed off on the cafeteria serving more
simple meals for awhile. Things like soup and sandwiches and salads.
The only problem is, they need groceries and no one has time to go
get them. Merrie asks Jane to go into town and shop for the
groceries. Jane can tell that Merrie doubts her ability to
successfully complete this task and she's enraged anew. I'm running
out of patience for little Miss Barrett.
Jane goes to the grocery store and
deems the fare there not good enough. She can't imagine having to
actually eat grocery store cold cuts or produce. She decides to buy
the condiments there and go to a butcher for the meat, the bakery for
the bread and a farmer's market for the produce. That way everything
will be up to the standards of a Barrett. {delicate sniff}
Unfortunately, Jane knows nothing and she runs completely out of
money before she even gets to the farmer's market. The market only
stocks fruit, so Jane is forced to return to the grocery store to buy
the vegetables, all with her own money.
Well.....not TECHNICALLY her own money.
She uses a credit card which I'm sure mommy and daddy pay for. So
she used their money. I bet they'll love that when they get the bill.
When Jane gets back to campus, Cary is
annoyed that she took off without letting any of them know where she was going. She gets haughty with him even though he kind of has a point. A
bunch of them are headed to the basement in Baker House to put away
tools and check out the dunk tank. When they get down there, Andy
asks if any of them know how to actually set up the mechanism. No
one does. Matt points out that there's a notebook with the tank and
thinks the instructions might be in there. Andy says it's too dark
in the basement so she'll take the notebook back to Baker House and
read it there.
Um.
Hoh.
They are IN the basement of Baker
House. Unless you're trying to tell me that they keep the basement
of Baker House separate from Baker House. Somehow. Also, are you
trying to tell me that the basement of a dorm doesn't have lights?
At dinner that night, Andy gets up on a
chair to lecture the school about slacking with their chores. The
other girls are not amused. They ask her who elected her boss. Andy
says they're all in this together and that the 407 girls promised PA
that this would go well. A random student yells that Andy shouldn't
have promised for the rest of them because none of this was their
idea and they'd rather close the school and go home. Andy points out
that if the school closes now, they'll have to make up their classes
in the summer. I don't know where she heard this because I don't
remember PA saying it. It does the trick though. The girls reluctantly
agree to do better just because the students of Canby Hall automatically obey any entity that lives in room 407. As does everyone else in this universe.
We have to pause here a second. This book is super unrealistic. I
don't know if this was Hoh's idea or if she was given an outline and
told to write it. Either way, there's no way it would ever happen.
The girls would not be allowed to remain in a school that had no
maintenance staff. For health code reasons alone, the school would
be closed. But let's say somehow it did remain open. I can't
imagine a group of elite boarding school brats agreeing to do things
like scrub toilets and do everyone's laundry. Sorry, Hoh, but I'm
not buying this book at all.
The notebook they found with the dunk
tank does have a diagram in it for the mechanism but it's
indecipherable. Luckily, Andy's made friends with a maintenance man
named Leo on the picket line and he explains everything to
her. They figure everything out and get the tank ready. Jane
volunteers to be the first one to try it out because she's tired of
everyone thinking that she can't do anything. Sorry, Jane, but Hoh
has given us printed evidence to back up the theory that you can't do
anything. It's not our fault we believe evidence over your lies. The dunk tank works fine and everyone's relieved.
The hose they used to fill the tank is
huge and heavy. Andy has no desire to try to put it up properly, so
she and Matt just heave it down the stairs and leave it in a pile on
the basement floor. If I remember correctly, this is important later
so I'm mentioning it.
Meanwhile, Jane is having another fit
(I'm not exaggerating – Hoh describes her as "jutting her bottom lip
out" during this whole scene) because her laundry is not being
returned within 24 hours like it used to be. There's a particular
white blouse she's wanting to wear. Dee tells her that she'll just
have to wear something else and Jane pouts that she always wears that
blouse with her yellow sweater. Her attitude does not improve when
Cary picks her up for their date. With her chin raised high, she
churlishly demands to know why he always takes Andy's side when it
comes to the strike. Cary says he takes her side because she's
right. Jane imperiously demands to know why he cares about the
people on strike when he doesn't personally know any of them. Cary
replies that he cares because they're PEOPLE.
#teamCaryalldayeveryday
Cary tells Jane that she should really
try to see things from the strikers' point of view but she gets
pissed again and complains about how much work she has to do and how
none of this is fair to HER because she's the only one who matters.
#screwtheworkers
Cary sighs and tells her he's going to
walk her back to Baker House and leave. She sticks her nose so high
in the air that she's sniffing Saturn's ass and stomps away.
Days pass and it's all very repetitive.
Jane acts like an entitled asshole. Andy continues to provide
drinks and snacks for the strikers. Andy/Jane and Jane/Cary continue
to bicker about the strike. I think about 100 pages of this book
could have been cut without losing any actual material because it's
just saying the same things over and over and over.
Toby is assigned to garden duty on
Saturday morning. One of her duties is to turn on the automatic
sprinklers, let them run for awhile and then turn them back off.
Randy drives up and asks her to go for a quick ride. She figures she
can accomplish this while the sprinklers are doing their thing. She
turns them on and then leaves with Randy. They're only supposed to
be gone half an hour but they lose all track of time. By the time
Toby returns, the beds are completely filled with water to the point
that it's pouring out onto the surrounding lawn.
Merrie comes by and is furious. She
tells Toby that she needs to have more respect for other people's
things and that she's going to have to bail out the water with
buckets and then empty the buckets into the pond. Toby feels
terrible. Randy offers to help since it was his fault this happened.
As she works, she keeps having to walk past the others who are
working on the carnival booths. At first everyone is pretty cold to Toby
and she's mortified. But by the time she finishes and joins them,
they've thawed. Cary thaws toward Jane too and gives her another chance although I'm
hard pressed to figure out why he bothers with her at all.
#setCaryfree
On Sunday, the weather is cold and
drizzly but the gang heads out to work on the booths anyway. To
their surprise, Leo and a couple of the other picketers bring them
hot chocolate and cookies. Leo says it's in return for all the cold
drinks Andy's brought them over the weeks. Plus, some of the workers
feel bad for the students because they're having to work so hard.
Jane just can't help herself. She lays into Leo and the other
workers, blaming them for everything going wrong in her life. Andy
tries to shut her up but is unsuccessful. Jane's gast is flabbered
when Cary gets mad at her again.
The next day, Jane is determined to
make up with Cary but he's not having any of it. She tries to talk
to him but he firmly tells her that he doesn't have time to gossip
and he keeps right on working. Jane is furious. That night at
dinner, she complains so much that both Toby and Andy are completely
disgusted with her. She continues to be annoying back up in their
room and poor Toby finally escapes to the showers just to get away
from her. As soon as she's gone, someone comes up to say that Toby
has a long distance phone call downstairs. Jane knows it's Neal and
races down to talk to him.
Jane starts in with a long list of
complaints and Neal listens but doesn't take her side. He refrains
from addressing the Cary situation but in his head he wishes Cary
luck with his handful and is grateful to be with Toby now. He tells
her that he supports the workers and she is so furious that she hangs
up on him. Back in the room, she doesn't even bother to tell Toby
that Neal called. Andy has to do it. Toby is a little upset that
Jane took the call instead of coming to get her. Jane goes to bed
feeling betrayed by everyone in her life.
It's somehow Saturday again and the
girls wake up to a raging storm. Hail shatters their window and
several others in Baker House. They all gather in the hall for
safety until the hail is over. The electricity is out but the place
is insufferably hot so they assume the furnace must be
malfunctioning. When the hail stops, Merrie tells them that they'll
have to tack blankets up over their broken windows to keep the rain
out. Although how fabric blankets are going to keep rain out is
beyond me. I don't think Hoh knows what rain is.
Merrie asks someone to go down to the
basement to shut off the gas to the furnace so the temperature will
go down. Jane doesn't want to do any glass cleaning or blanket
nailing so she volunteers to go take care of the furnace. Merrie
warns her that the basement is probably flooded and tells her to take
someone with her. Jane doesn't listen.
When she gets down to the basement, the
floor is covered in more than an inch of water. She doesn't want to
get her slippers wet, so she goes barefoot across the floor. Not
something I'd do in a basement. There's no telling what you could step on. (#tetanusshot) She finds the furnace and turns off the gas. On her way back to the
stairs, she figures out why the basement is flooding. There's a hole
in the wall and water is pouring in from the heavy rain outside.
She looks around and finds a pile of firewood. It takes her awhile, but eventually she finds a log
that will plug the hole and the rain stops coming in.
She's completely soaked and freezing
now but she soon discovers she can't get out of the basement. The
door won't open and no one hears her knocking and calling for help.
There's a door that leads outside and she decides it would be better
to be out in the storm briefly than it would be to freeze in the dark
basement. Back down the stairs she goes, but this time she's halted
before she can get across the floor. Something has wrapped itself
tightly around her right ankle.
Remember that hose Andy just threw down
there? I told you it was going to be important.
We momentarily head hop to Andy and
Toby who are cleaning up glass on the first floor. They hear
knocking and discover Matt and Cary have arrived. Some windows have also been broken at Oakley so they've come to see if the girls need help. Andy tells them that everything is handled. Cary is worried
about Jane and asks where she is. The girls have no idea.
We're back with Jane who is struggling
to free her foot from the hose. The hose has magically changed
color, by the way. When Andy was wrestling with it, it was red. Now
it's black. KEEP UP WITH YOUR OWN DAMN STORY, HOH! Jane can't get
free because her fingers are so numb from the cold water. The more
Jane struggles to free herself, the tighter the hose gets. She even
manages to get her left foot tangled up as well. To add to her
troubles, the log pops out of the hole and water begins to pour into
the basement again. She remembers Merrie saying the basement once
flooded to the top of the stairs. If that happens again, she'll
drown. She begins to scream for help again.
Upstairs, Andy hears her. They all
race to the basement door but they can't get it open. Toby tells
them about the second door and they all dash into the storm to reach
it. They're stunned when they find Jane just standing in the middle
of the basement. She explains she's stuck in a hose and they all get
to work freeing her. Unfortunately, Jane has struggled so much
against the hose that her skin is rubbed raw and her ankles are
swollen. The first time Cary touches her foot she screams in pain.
He goes completely white and jumps up to hug her.
The water is so deep now that they
can't even kneel down to work on the coils of the hose. Matt goes to
find something to plug the hole again while Toby and Cary work to
free Jane. Andy is holding her up and trying to warm her a little.
They get the first foot free and Jane nearly faints from the pain of
the blood rushing back into her foot. The second foot is easier
because the coils of the hose have been loosened. Cary picks her up
and they're shocked to see her ankles. They're both swollen to twice
their normal size and the skin has been rubbed off in places where she
struggled. Andy starts to cry.
Toby doesn't think Jane should be taken
through the outside door because of the storm still raging outside.
Andy solves the problem by taking an ax to the inside door. Cary
carries Jane up four flights of stairs and I think the whole rescuing Jane scene is why I kept
this book. Curse my romantic heart.
Jane gets dry and first-aided. Cary
stays with her the rest of the day. Eventually the rain stops and
Matt, Toby and Andy head out to see what damage was done to the
carnival booths. Nine out of ten of them are completely destroyed.
Andy snaps. She tells them that she's going to march to PA's office
and demand that the strike be ended. Toby offers to go with her for
moral support.
When they get to PA's office, the
headmistress looks sad and defeated. She tells them that the school
will have to be closed now. She has no choice. Andy demands she end
the strike and PA is hurt. She asks Andy if Andy really believes she
wouldn't have already done that if she could. PA has no power in
this. The Board of Trustees are the only ones who can end the strike
and they don't seem to want to. Andy feels bad that she thought PA
was responsible. She asks for the names of the trustees. She
intends to contact every one of them herself. PA hesitates but then
smiles and wishes Andy luck.
The next morning, Toby and Andy dress
in their most respectable clothes (well, JANE'S most respectable
clothes) and head out with Matt chauffeuring to knock on the
trustees' doors. Matt knows the first one. He advises them to just
be straight-forward with the guy. I'm really not going to bore you
with the details of all this. Andy and Toby meet with all but two of
the board members and present their case for why the workers should
get their hours back. They go home feeling like it had no impact
whatsoever.
Meanwhile, Jane's mother calls. One of
the girls answers and tells her about the accident. Consequently,
Jane's mother phones Merrie and announces she'll be pulling Jane out
of school on Wednesday. Why not immediately you ask? Well, because Hoh needs some emotional impact in her book and having everyone stew over Jane's departure will fit the bill nicely.
They all go to dinner that night but no
one is eating. Everyone has heard the school is closing and that the
carnival booths are ruined and no one has an appetite. When PA shows
up, they all assume they'll be told to pack up. Instead she tells
them that the strike is over. Andy and Toby for the win! Not only
have the workers already started to return and get to work, but PA is
going to excuse them all from classes on Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday so they can get the carnival ready to go.
Jane is still morose. She's pretty
sure she'll still be going home Wednesday night. She doesn't think
her parents will change their minds. Andy reminds her that the
carnival always has a pie eating contest and that pies are scheduled
to be baked on Tuesday evening. She says that Jane can make the best
pie ever and then present it to her parents as an example of all
she's learned at Canby and then her parents will let her stay.
{Snort.}
Seriously?
This is REALLY the plan?
For fuck's sake, Hoh. What the hell?
Wednesday arrives. It's the first day
of the carnival, so when Jane's parents arrive to collect her, she
forces them to come see all the fruits of her labor. Fortunately she
doesn't have to resort to the stupid pie plan because her parents
have so much fun at the carnival that they decide to let her stay.
What?
Oh, I don't care anymore.
The book ends with everyone eating
tacos. So....there's that.
The Least Annoying Person in Greenleaf
Award: I could give this to almost anyone since EVERY SINGLE
CHARACTER was less annoying than Jane. I think I'll award it to Leo
because he was awesome in the three scenes he had.
The Bitch of Baker House Award:
Please. You guys know who gets this. Jane, come on down. It
couldn't get more annoying than Jane in this book. She reached epic new levels of
awfulness. WHY IS CARY WITH HER??? This mystery is almost deeper
than the tea bag, y'all.
#setCaryfree
Coming up next: Is the super
cute new girl scamming everyone? {shrug} Probably.
