Did You Notice?
~We’re introduced to Judith Gershner, head of the Computer Club, on p. 16 of Princess in Love. But if she’s been head of the computer club this whole time, where was she on Halloween? Is she just not mentioned? Not there at all? I know Meg probably just made her up for the third book, but still, inquiring minds want to know!
~Hmm…on p. 18 of Princess in Love, Mia says that Michael “generally avoids places he considers tourist traps”, yet he came to skate at Rockefeller Center. Since we all know he wasn’t on a date with Judith like Mia supposed, why’d he come? To see Mia maybe? Aww…that’s so sweet!
~In Mia’s list of “Ten Things I Hate About the Holiday Season in New York City” she says under #2 that they eventually ask the mayor instead of her to flip the switch to light the tree in Rockefeller Center. But in the preview that was on Meg’s website, it said it was a firefighter that they asked instead. Why the change?
~On p. 35, Mia says that Lilly would make fun of her for liking Michael. But would she? It seems to me that Mia’s a little paranoid, and Lilly would merely try to psychoanalyze her about it.
~Also on p. 35, Mia tells her father that she likes Lilly’s brother, and her dad knows that Michael’s in college. How would Mia’s dad know this, though? Does Mia talk about Lilly and Michael a lot? Otherwise, I don’t see how he would have any idea how old Lilly’s brother is.
~On p. 43, Mia says that they already had the Presidential Fitness Test, and that she did “okay on everything but the V-sit reach.” What the heck is a V-sit reach? Maybe I’m dense or my schools had a weird physical-fitness test, but I have no idea what that is.
~On p. 48, Mia confesses to Tina that she likes someone other than Kenny, and Tina immediately guesses that she likes Michael. I’m wondering how many other people figured out that Mia and Michael like each other before they did.
~On p. 50, Mia says that that Michael comes into the kitchen without a shirt on every time she sleeps over. But I didn’t think that happened every morning Mia came over, just some of them. So is Mia just exaggerating, or is this a recent development?
~On p. 51 Mia says that Kenny’s usual lunch is a “Coke and an ice-cream sandwich.” Ew, can we say unhealthy?
~On p. 57, Lilly says that she wants to declare “a walkout tomorrow at eleven.” But when she sends out the mass email to the whole school, the time of the walkout is ten o’clock. Why the change?
~On p. 62, Mia says that her father has the hotel suite next to Grandmère, but in the first book she says that Grandmère lives in the Penthouse. So wouldn’t Mia’s dad be on the floor below Grandmère?
~On p. 87, Mia says that she can’t walkout with Lilly at ten o’clock because she has Algebra that period. But Algebra’s her first period – it says so on her exam schedule. And there’s never been any indication that Einstein has a block schedule or anything like that, so Mia’s school must start pretty late to still be having first period at ten!
~On p. 90, Michael tells Mia over IM that she should definitely stop by the Computer Club’s booth at the Carnival and check out the computer program he’s working on. At first I thought this was because he was planning on showing her the program he made with the poem like hers. But Mia sends him the first card on p. 94, so he couldn’t have known about it then. So why’d he ask her? Had Tina and Lilly already told him that Mia liked him, so he was planning something? Or was he just planning something anyways? I want to know!
~There’s a typo on p. 108. Mia says, “Thank God Grandmère wasn’t there...he'd gone off in search of more cigarettes, and to have her sidecar refreshed.”
~Are there more people than just Mia in Mr. Gianini’s review sessions? I always thought it was just Mia, but then Mia says on p. 110 that “after everyone but me had left.” Hmm…maybe everybody else got this a loooong time ago, but I sure didn’t!
~On p. 195, Mia says that she “never realized how much in love with Michael Moscovitz I was until Judith Gershner came along and swept him right out from under my nose.” But Mia had the whole of book 2 to tell him how she felt, so she can’t exactly claim that Judith stole him right out of the blue.
~On p. 196 Mia says that “there’s nothing subjective about” Algebra. But in my high school experience, partial credit can be very subjective, depending on the teacher and stuff like that.
~Why isn’t Kenny helping out at the Computer Club booth during the Winter Carnival? And why wasn’t he helping out with their computer program too? That slacker!
~Why didn’t Tina see the message on Mia’s computer screen during the Winter Carnival? Or anyone else for that matter? It’s really easy to see what someone’s doing on the computer even if you’re not trying to.
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