utterly girl detective

[phyllisgabor]

Recently I went to a Mennonite superstore that was a dry goods shop, a scrapbooking shop, a deli, a gift shop, a book store, and an antique mall, and I was amazed to see dozens and dozens of Nancy Drew books in the book store. I flipped through them and boggled at the cover art and reflected on the cultural icon that is Nancy Drew

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[yeswad]

if youre liking the nancy drew books, go read this:
http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Teen-Sleuth-Chelsea-Cain/dp/1582345112

confessions of a teen slueth. i read it about 5 years ago and loved it. its pretty funny but probably only to people who enjoy the nancy drew books.

[murdermystery]

I read the first five or so a while ago and was pretty into them, but I stopped because I have issues with prioritizing, or something. Hah!

[clef]

Oh Phyl! My mom taught me to read with original Hardy Boys books and I have my childhood collection of them on display in my apartment still (mostly because I have no better idea of what to do with them

[saturn_shumba]

You touched on something that also sparked my interest in Nancy Drew as a kid--Claudia Kishi. I read a few Nancy Drew books because SHE loved them. The way she treated them too--hiding them under her bed like some sort of illicit pulp fiction--made me feel all ~dangerous~ when I read them as well.

That said, I have almost ZERO memories of those books, except for the fact that I loved those reissue 60's-70's covers as well. I've re-read a few recently and I'm totally with you on how Nancy's sensible sleuthing is very addicting. And now I want to read that Red Gate Farm one, which sounds fascinating.

[7ofclubs]

I am male but got into Nancy Drew before the Hardy Boys (my mom was thrilled with that, don't you know) simply because we stayed at the beach with some family friends, and the sister had a ND book she had finished with, so I picked it up and instantly got hooked in the mystery part. It didn't even occur to me that there was something "wrong" with a boy reading ND, and I started reading them from the school library and asking for them for holiday gifts (HA). My folks compromised by giving me BOTH NC and HB books, and eventually I did veer into the "proper" boys' books (though the "Three Investigators" books were my favorite of those).

Cool that you're reading them in order. I wish you had thought to keep a log of how often "Titian-haired" is used.