Dear Friends,
Even though I'm mostly a lurker, I wanted to come out with my
reading history -- if only because Martha's Nancy Drew
testimonial moved me. I was born in 1977, and found Nancy
Drew in fourth grade. My religious mother wouldn't let me
read anything else in the mystery genre. I found the old blue
shiny-covered Hardy Boys a year later and Chandler in 8th
grade. Now I'm all grown up and haven't stopped reading
hardboiled for a minute. I'm defending a couple of our books
in a senior English thesis, fighting the stuffy guardians of
"Literature" with some hardboiled prose. I think "Literature"
is what you read, what makes you get excited, not the canon
they've taught since the 19th century. So three cheers for
Nancy Drew, whenever your mothers let you read them.
Jason Boog
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