by M Sinclair Stevens. February 02, 2002.
1. Daddy Long-Legs
2. Nancy Drew: The Clue in the Diary (1931 version)
3. Little House in the Big Woods
4. Little House on the Prairie
5. The Long Winter
6. Little Town on the Prarie
7. These Happy Golden Years
8. Charlotte's Web
9. The Secret Garden
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I'm going to print our your email for Natasha. She will love that you enjoy all the same books that we do!
I love those old books too, especially Nancy Drew. I read those out loud to the kids all day sometimes before they started school. When she would describe her outfits and the tuna salad with lime jello for dessert, I'd crack up! She would cheerfully help Hannah with the dishes before she dashed off to the next clue. She's my hero. She was always chiding herself or saying something ruefully. Nancy is what I like to call Mucha Muchacha, TOO MUCH GIRL.
Alex's and my favorite Nancy Drewism is "chums". I read one book aloud and he had to kiss me every time I read the word "chums". I got kissed 13 times in one chapter!
I recently was in our local paper because I wrote in to correct them about the origins of George Fayne's name. (The paper said it was short for Georgina, but, of course, George herself frequently said it was not short for anything...actually she was named for her grandfather, because her parents finally came to terms with the fact that she was going to be their last child and they weren't going to have a son.)
Oh my gosh! I'm a Nancy Drew fan...but you're a Nancy
Drew FREAK!!! I'm laughing hard over here.
I loved Nancy Drew when I was growing up, but I got impatient when I got a new Nancy Drew for every birthday and Christmas even when I was 19! I thought I would have been better educated had I spent some of my in high school reading more classics. So when I got married, I gave my entire collection (except for "The Hidden Staircase", "The Password to Larkspur Lane", and "The Ghost of Blackwood Hall") to a college friend. And I swore, I would never buy Nancy Drew mysteries for my daughter (and I didn't!)
So I was without Nancy for almost twenty years. Then in 1996, I went through a period of depression, and I wanted to surround myself with old, familiar things. So for Christmas, Alex bought me the ten-volume set of Nancy Drew reissued from the 30s. And I began going to Half Price books and reacquiring my favorite yellow bound Nancy's from the 50s and 60s.
I've come to terms with Nancy Drew as an important part of growing up in America in the 60s thanks to The Mysterious Case of Nancy Drew & the Hardy Boys.
I think Nancy Drew is so totally cool I think the best books are the ones with Ned Nickerson in them, he is so totally hot,some of my friends read them ,they have such suspense and mystery .