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Supercouple
Suddenly they're school celebrities!
What happens when Binky Nolan, a private person with a talent for gymnastics, cooking, and wildflower painting, is goaded into cheerleading?
Instant celebrity. Overnight, Binky's in the public eye, and before she knows it, she's pushed into a romance with handsome Piers Anderssen, the star football player. Suddenly, they're "Supercouple."
Despite a mutual attraction, neither Binky nor Piers takes much time to learn about the other. It's not until a shocking episode occurs at a basketball game that Binky occurs at a basketball game that Binky and Piers discover their similar interests, and how much they've hidden just to keep up appearances.
They don't need to impress the public anymore - but do they still need each other?
What happens when Binky Nolan, a private person with a talent for gymnastics, cooking, and wildflower painting, is goaded into cheerleading?
Instant celebrity. Overnight, Binky's in the public eye, and before she knows it, she's pushed into a romance with handsome Piers Anderssen, the star football player. Suddenly, they're "Supercouple."
Despite a mutual attraction, neither Binky nor Piers takes much time to learn about the other. It's not until a shocking episode occurs at a basketball game that Binky occurs at a basketball game that Binky and Piers discover their similar interests, and how much they've hidden just to keep up appearances.
They don't need to impress the public anymore - but do they still need each other?
183 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1985
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Mary Towne
13 books3 followersBorn in Brooklyn, New York, Mary Towne grew up in Long Island, California, and Massachusetts. She was associated with the Institute of Children's Literature as an instructor and consultant.
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May 5, 2018
Super Couple
PLOT: Straight A student, former gymnastic extraordinaire, and artist Bianca Nolan decides to broaden her horizon and go out for the cheerleading squad. When her carnation is caught at a game by handsome, football, star Piers all off a sudden overnight (and after hanging out a few times) the article featuring them titled "Super Couple" becomes a reality. Only sports seems to be the only thing they have in common. Wellll *other things* too. But of course, as we know relationships based on physical attraction alone just won't stick. And Binky before long begins to realize that. But after she begins to date other people her friend (and the sister of Piers)helps her see that just maybe she's judged him to prematurely. And what's beneath that rigid, one dimensional, surface she hasn't taken the time to get to know may just run a bit deeper. Maybe she may have more in common with him than she thinks.
MY THOUGHTS:
*BAH! I'm about like Binky over all this football terminology. It's about as boring to read about as to learn. Not to mention my feelings of books that take up PAGE after PAGE after PAGE detailing the games plays out in LONG lengths!
*(Rolling my eyes) We get it! She's got big breasts. MOVING ON!
*And then how can you criticize someone for being "extra" and then when they tone it down say I didn't mean that much? You know what I think? JEALOUS MUCH? Binky sounds like she outshines that whole team because she is little and cute and peppy and bubbly. But the COACH is being a hater. Shouldn't she be encouraging the rest of them to be more like Binky?
*How does a dog get on a football field? First of all, when I think of my own HS football field before you could even get into it there was a gate. At my cousin's Home-Coming game that was played on a field, there was a gate. If a dog were to run up to the gate and there was a security officer he should have stopped it. Well come to think of it I think they sit INSIDE the ticket booth. But they should be outside also. Making sure no weapons make it inside the field. Thus I'll stand by my earlier statement this was VERY SLOPPY security. Binky wasn't the one who should have got reprehended.
*In an old-fashioned kind of way I think the carnation toss thing was kind of cute. Kinda like I think the modern way my cousin (who was a cheerleader) used to wear her boyfriend's basketball number on her tennis shoe when she cheered. She might have even had something else with his number on it.
*It's also cute how Binky tries to take up for Piers with the little she knows about football because the play's call seemed "unfair" to her. Sounds like something I would have done.
*Piers sounds exactly like this guy I once thought I knew, attractive but with-drawn in a lot of ways. He's like the guy that holds stuff in and you try and try like hell to draw "something" out of. I know the feeling VERY WELL! I was about to say he had no personality and that he and Binky just weren't compatible. And for the record, Bianca sounds better than "Binky". Binky sounds like an animated cartoon mouse on a kid's show. I wish they'd just given her the nickname "B".
*I get that Binky wanted to get Piers to open up to her and she was being more aggressive but I thought she was out of line to insinuate that his parents were drunks. You just don't do that and you're not fully with the person. She wasn't even subtle about it. I'm surprised he didn't take offense to that.
I was about to seriously question WHY. As in why would you try out to be a cheerleader and you really didn't want to be a cheerleader. Spencer made a comment and Binky takes it to heart about her not being a "joiner". It's absolutely NOTHING wrong with that. Some people (like Binky) have lives OUTSIDE of school. Some people are introverts. When I was in high school I did try out for the squad, (I didn't make it) but it wasn't because I felt like I "needed to". I wasn't particularly a "joiner" either. I was ok with that. If someone had teased me about it, I probably would have just shrugged it off as if to say OH WELL. I guess I've never been particularly bothered by what other people thought of who I was. But then I thought about it. Sometimes you do (do) things in life not because you actually want to, but because you feel like you *should*. So I think I understand Binky's decision a little more when I look it like that. I thought this book had a good message. But do ANY of these characters know who they REALLY are? Most of them show "faces". Binky shows the bubbly, athletic, cheerleader face (façade) in public but she's really more of an introvert. She doesn't care that much about sports. She doesn't like concerts. Doro behind closed doors wears a "classy mask" She's into the violin and cello but on the outside, she's kind of loud and rowdy. Then there's Piers who seems like this stoic type. Heavy into football. No personality what so ever. But we find out that's his "social fitting in mask" but really he's a passionate nature lover. His parents aren't social but in order to get ahead in the father's career at a dealership he now has to wear the "life of the party mask". While his wife turns into the "social butterfly". Then there's Karen whose pulls out the "emo/wannabe thug" mask but in actuality, she's a writer. In reading this I think it's really just sad that people can't just be who it is they REALLY are. Other people be damned!!! Why do we feel the need to show people "the mask" and not just let down our guards *just a little bit* So they can see and accept the real us for who we are? But it happens all the time. I did warm to Binky and Piers toward the end as a couple. At first, they felt as stale to me as they did her (Bianca). But when they begin to bond in their love of wildlife and open up to each other about their fears, (as well as help each other to conquer them), they won me over. Because any guy who could do that for me, (no matter how straight-laced he was), would be my SUPERMAN. I think in turn that's what's MAKES a super couple! Not how photogenic you are together.
RATING: 7 Sometimes you have to look past initial perceptions and dig deeper than what you see on the surface!
PLOT: Straight A student, former gymnastic extraordinaire, and artist Bianca Nolan decides to broaden her horizon and go out for the cheerleading squad. When her carnation is caught at a game by handsome, football, star Piers all off a sudden overnight (and after hanging out a few times) the article featuring them titled "Super Couple" becomes a reality. Only sports seems to be the only thing they have in common. Wellll *other things* too. But of course, as we know relationships based on physical attraction alone just won't stick. And Binky before long begins to realize that. But after she begins to date other people her friend (and the sister of Piers)helps her see that just maybe she's judged him to prematurely. And what's beneath that rigid, one dimensional, surface she hasn't taken the time to get to know may just run a bit deeper. Maybe she may have more in common with him than she thinks.
MY THOUGHTS:
*BAH! I'm about like Binky over all this football terminology. It's about as boring to read about as to learn. Not to mention my feelings of books that take up PAGE after PAGE after PAGE detailing the games plays out in LONG lengths!
*(Rolling my eyes) We get it! She's got big breasts. MOVING ON!
*And then how can you criticize someone for being "extra" and then when they tone it down say I didn't mean that much? You know what I think? JEALOUS MUCH? Binky sounds like she outshines that whole team because she is little and cute and peppy and bubbly. But the COACH is being a hater. Shouldn't she be encouraging the rest of them to be more like Binky?
*How does a dog get on a football field? First of all, when I think of my own HS football field before you could even get into it there was a gate. At my cousin's Home-Coming game that was played on a field, there was a gate. If a dog were to run up to the gate and there was a security officer he should have stopped it. Well come to think of it I think they sit INSIDE the ticket booth. But they should be outside also. Making sure no weapons make it inside the field. Thus I'll stand by my earlier statement this was VERY SLOPPY security. Binky wasn't the one who should have got reprehended.
*In an old-fashioned kind of way I think the carnation toss thing was kind of cute. Kinda like I think the modern way my cousin (who was a cheerleader) used to wear her boyfriend's basketball number on her tennis shoe when she cheered. She might have even had something else with his number on it.
*It's also cute how Binky tries to take up for Piers with the little she knows about football because the play's call seemed "unfair" to her. Sounds like something I would have done.
*Piers sounds exactly like this guy I once thought I knew, attractive but with-drawn in a lot of ways. He's like the guy that holds stuff in and you try and try like hell to draw "something" out of. I know the feeling VERY WELL! I was about to say he had no personality and that he and Binky just weren't compatible. And for the record, Bianca sounds better than "Binky". Binky sounds like an animated cartoon mouse on a kid's show. I wish they'd just given her the nickname "B".
*I get that Binky wanted to get Piers to open up to her and she was being more aggressive but I thought she was out of line to insinuate that his parents were drunks. You just don't do that and you're not fully with the person. She wasn't even subtle about it. I'm surprised he didn't take offense to that.
I was about to seriously question WHY. As in why would you try out to be a cheerleader and you really didn't want to be a cheerleader. Spencer made a comment and Binky takes it to heart about her not being a "joiner". It's absolutely NOTHING wrong with that. Some people (like Binky) have lives OUTSIDE of school. Some people are introverts. When I was in high school I did try out for the squad, (I didn't make it) but it wasn't because I felt like I "needed to". I wasn't particularly a "joiner" either. I was ok with that. If someone had teased me about it, I probably would have just shrugged it off as if to say OH WELL. I guess I've never been particularly bothered by what other people thought of who I was. But then I thought about it. Sometimes you do (do) things in life not because you actually want to, but because you feel like you *should*. So I think I understand Binky's decision a little more when I look it like that. I thought this book had a good message. But do ANY of these characters know who they REALLY are? Most of them show "faces". Binky shows the bubbly, athletic, cheerleader face (façade) in public but she's really more of an introvert. She doesn't care that much about sports. She doesn't like concerts. Doro behind closed doors wears a "classy mask" She's into the violin and cello but on the outside, she's kind of loud and rowdy. Then there's Piers who seems like this stoic type. Heavy into football. No personality what so ever. But we find out that's his "social fitting in mask" but really he's a passionate nature lover. His parents aren't social but in order to get ahead in the father's career at a dealership he now has to wear the "life of the party mask". While his wife turns into the "social butterfly". Then there's Karen whose pulls out the "emo/wannabe thug" mask but in actuality, she's a writer. In reading this I think it's really just sad that people can't just be who it is they REALLY are. Other people be damned!!! Why do we feel the need to show people "the mask" and not just let down our guards *just a little bit* So they can see and accept the real us for who we are? But it happens all the time. I did warm to Binky and Piers toward the end as a couple. At first, they felt as stale to me as they did her (Bianca). But when they begin to bond in their love of wildlife and open up to each other about their fears, (as well as help each other to conquer them), they won me over. Because any guy who could do that for me, (no matter how straight-laced he was), would be my SUPERMAN. I think in turn that's what's MAKES a super couple! Not how photogenic you are together.
RATING: 7 Sometimes you have to look past initial perceptions and dig deeper than what you see on the surface!
July 16, 2012
I read this cheesy gem when I was younger. I am not sure why I liked it so much, but I remember it with fondness. I doubt it would resonate the same way now.
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