tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post7307224598279594007..comments2024-02-22T17:59:50.213-05:00Comments on in so many words...: Nancy Drew and Friends or How I Learned to Love Mysteries Once Upon A Time...Yvettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919246184376538331noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-25924647638372336112013-07-19T06:30:32.795-04:002013-07-19T06:30:32.795-04:00Wow, what a great gathering of jackets! My (male) ...Wow, what a great gathering of jackets! My (male) Nancy Drew experience was all about The Hidden Staircase. I'm going to getting around to writing about it this month!The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-80132631328100630512013-05-10T17:30:37.751-04:002013-05-10T17:30:37.751-04:00Thanks, Bob! Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks, Bob! Glad you enjoyed it. Yvettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919246184376538331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-23612797732258776232013-05-10T17:20:28.494-04:002013-05-10T17:20:28.494-04:00I love this post!!I love this post!!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08055526919117080012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-37034116242778503902013-05-07T17:10:19.328-04:002013-05-07T17:10:19.328-04:00Thanks, Prashant. I'm so glad you enjoyed the ...Thanks, Prashant. I'm so glad you enjoyed the post. It was a great deal of fun to put together. I love those old covers.<br /><br />I'm going to be downloading some Enid Blyton to read for the first time. :)Yvettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919246184376538331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-52569273259874398642013-05-07T00:22:00.115-04:002013-05-07T00:22:00.115-04:00Yvette, I read your post Tuesday morning and all t...Yvette, I read your post Tuesday morning and all the attractive covers made my day! I read a lot of Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, and Enid Blyton in my childhood and teen years and it's rather strange that I'm not familiar with any of these early covers. I used to read the latter-day hardback editions with more yellow in Nancy Drew and more blue in the Hardy Boys. I'll also have to check out the other YA titles you have displayed, such as, Beverly Gray, Judy Bolton, Melody Lane, and Jimmy Drury. They are absolutely new to me. I'm really curious to read THE MYSTERY OF FLIGHT 908 by Helen Wells — I like the sound of it. Many thanks for the links too.Prashant C. Trikannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079354501998741758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-11663842252543124112013-05-06T23:55:01.664-04:002013-05-06T23:55:01.664-04:00Kathy I became an Anglophile early on and then the...Kathy I became an Anglophile early on and then there was no reasoning with me. Ha!<br /><br />I blame Agatha Christie and Sherlock Holmes.<br /><br />Oh I used to read late into the night too. In fact, I still do. Sometimes much too late...Yvettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919246184376538331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-47482127563569088432013-05-06T23:53:18.203-04:002013-05-06T23:53:18.203-04:00Neer, I must admit I don't think I ever read a...Neer, I must admit I don't think I ever read a Penny Parker book. Did you enjoy reading it after all this time?<br /><br />I'm going to download a bunch of Enid Blytons just to see what's what. So many people loved those books.Yvettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919246184376538331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-91031569058126321942013-05-06T23:51:54.230-04:002013-05-06T23:51:54.230-04:00Les I can never remember when I first read Sherloc...Les I can never remember when I first read Sherlock Holmes. Whether it was in between Nancy and Agatha or whether it was during my Agatha phase...Yvettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919246184376538331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-29606657050314527362013-05-06T23:51:05.132-04:002013-05-06T23:51:05.132-04:00Eve, I'll bet we appreciate the gorgeous cover...Eve, I'll bet we appreciate the gorgeous covers even more now - looking back. As the books changed over the years, their covers got more and more insipid and badly designed.Yvettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919246184376538331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-25335259567393848702013-05-06T23:49:51.210-04:002013-05-06T23:49:51.210-04:00Lyn, I've never seen the book you mention. I&#...Lyn, I've never seen the book you mention. I'll have to look around. Thanks for the tip.<br /><br />I really do believe that early reading of series books set us all on our various lifetime courses. How could it be otherwise?Yvettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919246184376538331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-47373224578343634692013-05-06T23:48:12.188-04:002013-05-06T23:48:12.188-04:00Elisabeth, would that we all had kept our collecti...Elisabeth, would that we all had kept our collections...I regret every book, every piece of my childhood that disappeared over the years. :)<br /><br />I do remember that as much as I liked Nancy, I liked the Dana Girls' adventures even more.<br /><br />Yvettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919246184376538331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-29072910647252225892013-05-06T22:05:08.326-04:002013-05-06T22:05:08.326-04:00First I read the Hardy Boys, then got into Nancy D...First I read the Hardy Boys, then got into Nancy Drew mysteries, which I loved. I had a friend who actually owned many of the books, and I loved to visit her so I could curl up with Nancy in her investigations.<br /><br />Then i read Cherry Ames' books, too, and that began my life-story of reading under the cover with a flashlight until the late night.<br /><br />I have never heard of the Dana girls until now, but wish I had.<br /><br />And Enid Blyton I hadn't heard of until I began reading a lot of crime fiction lovers' blogs online. I've never read a book, was never an Anglophile, although I read Sherlock Holmes' stories as a teen-ager, but I stopped once I hit my twenties.<br /><br />And I read Hercule Poirot books until I was 19 and decided they weren't for me or Agatha Christie wasn't for me for reasons of world outlook, although I like watching the Belgian detectives' TV episodes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-9648536934113752662013-05-06T21:08:05.964-04:002013-05-06T21:08:05.964-04:00Your post brought back memories of school days. I ...Your post brought back memories of school days. I preferred the Five Find-outers, and the Three Investigators to Nancy Drew and Company. I remember reading Trixie Beldon too but by that time I was already moving towards Agatha Christie. Recently, I read a Penny Parker book.neerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01986509319841061021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-21241496762955536732013-05-06T19:25:13.828-04:002013-05-06T19:25:13.828-04:00It's amazing how many mystery lovers first fel...It's amazing how many mystery lovers first fell in love with mysteries because of these series, Yvette. I don't recall reading many of the Hardy Boys books, but I really came into mysteries via the Sherlock Holmes stories. They hooked me, and I've never been released - nor would I want to be!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-22765261154402240412013-05-06T18:59:25.520-04:002013-05-06T18:59:25.520-04:00I lived and died for Nancy Drew mysteries once upo...I lived and died for Nancy Drew mysteries once upon a time. Never thought about that being the beginning of my love of a mystery. It's true the cover art had much to do with the appeal of the books.The Lady Evehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11963115499930520653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-75702335528224437162013-05-06T17:55:53.621-04:002013-05-06T17:55:53.621-04:00I loved Nancy Drew & I'm sure she was the ...I loved Nancy Drew & I'm sure she was the link to Agatha Christie for me too. Those original covers are just wonderful, aren't they? Have you read The Lady Investigates by Patricia Craig & Mary Cadogan? It covers the girl detectives like Nancy & all the female detectives from Miss Marple & Miss Silver to the policewomen of the 1970s like Charmian Daniels. Published in 1986.lynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04509400868331534237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-3001000384144110412013-05-06T17:06:07.332-04:002013-05-06T17:06:07.332-04:00I read about twenty Nancy Drew books years ago, an...I read about twenty Nancy Drew books years ago, and loved them. They were the yellow hardcover reprints. Then one day a relative of a relative lent me an old 1930s edition of one I'd already read...and it was an entirely different book! I was never able to figure out exactly why and how much those yellow reprints were rewritten, but I think that's why I didn't go any further in the series.<br /><br />My first mystery series, though, was when I was very young—the Boxcar Children! I never read the Hardy Boys or any other juvenile series, but my mom tells me she used to love Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden when she was a kid. She ended up giving away her collections shortly before she was married, I think.Elisabeth Grace Foleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02073159989691222645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-17193623972427350272013-05-06T11:16:04.556-04:002013-05-06T11:16:04.556-04:00Anonymous: Oh I was an Anglophile from the moment ...Anonymous: Oh I was an Anglophile from the moment I first became addicted to Agatha Christie's books. Maybe even before.<br /><br />But I thank Nancy and friends for my leap to Dame Agatha.<br /><br />I am definitely going to read some Enid Blyton. Maybe they'll jar a memory or two loose. :)<br /><br />Yvettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919246184376538331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-53374623404076520512013-05-06T11:12:52.225-04:002013-05-06T11:12:52.225-04:00You're welcome, Jacqueline. This is a post I&#...You're welcome, Jacqueline. This is a post I've been meaning to do for awhile. It was a lot of fun to choose which covers to include. I could have gone on forever. Ha!Yvettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919246184376538331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-27624023084494045462013-05-06T11:11:34.905-04:002013-05-06T11:11:34.905-04:00I 'lumped' them in too, Mark. :)
Don'...I 'lumped' them in too, Mark. :)<br /><br />Don't you love those covers? The older versions had it all over the 'newer' editions over the years.<br /><br />I do vaguely remember wondering (once upon a time) who would want to read a book without any pictures. I mean, really. Right?<br /><br />Yvettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919246184376538331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-78286334430900129162013-05-06T11:01:54.693-04:002013-05-06T11:01:54.693-04:00I grew up on Enid Blyton books and preferred them ...I grew up on Enid Blyton books and preferred them to The Hardy Boys. As a child I was something of an Anglophile apparently. <br />Try "The Five Find Outers" series or maybe the "Mystery" series or "Famous Five". 40 years ago, they seemed much less "twee" and my son agreed when I read them to him. The Secret Seven seem very dated, but the FFO's in particular, he loved.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-62326034280272373052013-05-06T10:52:20.968-04:002013-05-06T10:52:20.968-04:00Oh, the joy of finding a Nancy Drew book under the...Oh, the joy of finding a Nancy Drew book under the tree at Christmas.<br /><br />Loved the Cherry Ames books. I recall a post-WWII series called Rick Brant. He was some sort of boy scientist who also solved mysteries.<br /><br />Half the fun of these books were the vivid, imaginative covers. Thanks for reviving the memories.Jacqueline T. Lynchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-2919254920078915902013-05-06T10:31:29.868-04:002013-05-06T10:31:29.868-04:00No, you're not the only one! As I mentioned on...No, you're not the only one! As I mentioned on one of your earlier posts, I was drawn to reading for pleasure when I was introduced to the Hardy Boys series.<br /><br />As a visual person from the very start, I was most attracted to picture books, and I distinctly remember that the adults around me — parents, teachers, book sellers — assumed that meant I was a "slow learner."<br /><br />The Hardy Boys (excuse me for lumping them in with Nancy Drew) changed all that, and I owe them and the author a belated thanks!Mark D. Ruffnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09241533547309049140noreply@blogger.com