I bet Mystery at the Ski Jump makes the PETA people very unhappy. Furs. Furs. Furs. Youch. I, on the other hand, enjoyed it quite a bit. I apparently enjoyed it quite a bit as a child too, since I practiced writing my name several times on the inside of the front jacket.
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Ah I loved this one, The Clue in the Crumbling Wall. No idea why, really. But I did. I remember loving it when I was a kid too. I think it was Salty. I like Salty old seamen.
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Yesterday was… a day… so I figured the easiest books to read would be some Nancy Drews for my challenge list. And I was right. The Clue in the Jewel Box and The Secret in the Old Attic are history. Well duh, of course they’re history – I’m reading my old books. I should probably stick to Nancy Drews for the rest of the week due to the crazy schedule I’m keeping but I’m going to give a YA fantasy a try today. If that doesn’t work, I’ll head back to Nancy.
One question – wasn’t Helen scheduled to get married in the first few books? Suddenly she’s back and there’s no mention of a fiancé. Or a husband. Or maybe it wasn’t Helen – it was someone else??? It’s bugging me, I need to go back and figure it out.
After reading a string of really depressing books, I mentioned to some folks that I needed to read a book where nobody died, where nobody was raped, where there was no heavy emotional abuse or drama. TW attempted to make suggestions, based on books she had recently read but I had not. Each time she would say “Oh how about…” and I’d say “ nobody dies? No rapes? No…?” and she would say “well… there’s just this one part….” Huh.
Thankfully Sassymonkey is a genius (I say this a lot, don’t I?) and remembered my Nancy Drew Challenge. Duh. Why didn’t I think of that? Nancy Drew did the trick!
The Mystery of the Brass Bound Trunk (which reminded me that I did indeed spend some time wishing I could visit Buenos Ares and longing for a cool trunk to store my crap in) and The Quest of the Missing Map (which I reminded me that I did not like this book because my father had models of ships and built models of ships and I kind of thought it was dumb at the time – so a book with models of ships was also dumb.)
I hate the name of this book, The Clue of the Tapping Heels. I dunno why. I just don’t like it. TW looked at the cover last night and said “Hey! I read that one!” Well of course she did, TW has a thing for tap dancing.
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Funny. Liz saw me reading The Message in the Hollow Oak and said, Hey! That was a good one! And, I didn’t remember it. She’s read very few Nancy Drews and I’ve read them all, most of them multiple times. This one – she liked. This one – I found boring. I’m pretty sure I found it boring as a kid, too, since I don’t even remember reading it.
Ho Hum.
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Look, more evidence that I did snack while reading Nancy Drew (my mother seems to believe that I did not – err she would be wrong, lol.) Some sort of foodie goo with fuzzy pink hair attached. My bedroom was pink and green (because my grandmother swore that pink and green went together and I believed every word she ever said, which is another story.) I vaguely recall some fuzzy pink pillow was on my bed and I’m pretty sure this pink fuzz is pillow related.
Anyway – The Password to Larkspur Lane – finished it, laughed when Bess said “I don’t want to meet any kidnappers” and George said “Don’t be such a snob!” Umm so you’re a snob if you don’t want to meet kidnappers? Hah. Who knew? Call me a snob because kidnappers are not high on my list of people to mee either.
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Some observations from Nancy’s Mysterious Letter:
-In my experience, growing up in the 60s and 70s, there were very few dilapidated bridges. (No mom, the Grace bridge wasn’t dilapidated.) So how come there are so many in Nancy’s world?
-People say the world is smaller now, because of the internets. Those folks didn’t read Nancy Drew books in the 60s, did they?
-Mail delivery seems to have gotten significantly slower. A letter from London was stolen. A replacement letter showed up less two days later. Regular mail, not Fedex or even UPS. How is that possible? I can’t get mail delivered from across town that quickly.
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The last book I finished for the Dewey Readathon was The Clue in the Diary. The most interesting thing(s) about this one were related to Ned. He was “introduced” in this book. He and Nancy met when Foxy Felix’s house blew up and from that moment on Ned became a wee bit stalkerish – he just kept turning up. Someone should have warned her about that boy, no matter how cute or smart he might be. An oddity though is that in a book I read, earlier in the series, Helen teased Nancy about Ned… (maybe in the Mystery at Lilac Inn?), but how would that be possible if Nancy hadn’t met him yet? Oops.
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Another Nancy Drew challenge book finished. The Secret of Red Gate Farm was always one of my favorites. My copy is well worn and a wee bit smudgy in places. I wonder what snacks I ate as I read this as a child…
(178 pages)
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