state of the BSC union

( prettyful )

So, lookit. "New" BSC books.

I'll either edit this post with the small list of changes or make a new one. I know a lot of people were freaking out about the very thought of any updates occurring, but the only two things I see updated so far (besides the occasional re-wording of something which is only noticeable when you read both at the same time) are Stacey's perms are now "styled" and they don't Xerox things, they copy them. Yeah. No cellphones, the fashions are word-for-word the same oh. Wait. I lied. Kristy's great idea introduces us to the lie that Kristy would wear a skirt and a blouse to school but by the end of the series we all know Kristy's in jeans and a sweatshirt, right. Well, this go round Kristy's in jeans and a t-shirt to begin with. But Stacey's and Claudia's fashion choices are so far untouched and I'm 90% done with the first book.

Sheep are still IN

If the following sounds terribly disjointed, I do apologize. I slept too long and didn't get my caffeine fix in time to stave off the withdrawal headache. Which means every thought I have is splintered by the pounding in my head. It does not bode well for cohesive thoughts.

Moving right along. Yesterday my nephew brought home the three re-released BSC books I'd been waiting for. I'll never fully understand how the book clubs work, since occasionally you'll place your order and two days pass and bam! Books. Other times you wait more than a month and the books appear. This was somewhere between in that I think it took a week for them to appear.

So, much has been made in the past over the possible changes to the series with the re-releases. Near as I can tell, they didn't really do much beyond the cosmetic. The fonts are wildly different and eventually this skews the page count (so what was once on page 25 is now on page 27), and the logo has changed so that impacts the chapter starts as well. The handwriting is different, but that also changed later in the series, so that was never set in stone, really. Also, some sentences have been reworked to make them flow a bit better. I'm not entirely sure how many because 3/4 of the way I stopped reading both versions at the same time because my right arm kept falling asleep. Bad, bad, bad fan.

( There are pictures. Woo? )