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The Quest of the Missing Map | Carolyn Keene

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I can‘t believe it took me that long to finish this little book! Nancy seems to get into more dangerous situations than usual, I hope Mr. Drew has an excellent life insurance policy on her! 😆 I will say I do really like Nancy‘s boyfriend, Ned, and am curious how long he sticks around. Fun fluff as always. 3⭐️

#NancyDrewBR

Librarybelle

Librarybelle Fun fluff indeed! 6d

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AnneCecilie

The Flower Farm | Rachael Lucas

#BookReport

I finished The Strawberry Patch Pancake House and this month‘s reading in Tombland #ShardlakeBR

I read The Secret in the Attic #NancyDrewBR

I continued my yearlong reads on the right

I continued Little Dorrit #WhatTheDickens and Mansfield Park #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow

I continued listening to The Flower Farm

And I‘ve started the first book from my staycation tbr, Under brosteinen, stranden!

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1. #NancyDrewBR
2. My library
3. Litsy is a permanent fixture on this list
4. Dinner with friends
5. Reading as much as I can before my summer vacation is over.

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

Aims42 Thank you for sharing your joys!! Really leaning into and focusing on these posts today 🩷 1w

IriDas #5. Same. 1w

Sace @Aims42 Me too! I‘ll be scrolling the hashtag all day. 1w

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Sace @IriDas Yeah. Here at Casa de Sace we are calling it The Countdown of The Condemned. 🤣 1w

dabbe 🩵💙🩵 1w

AnnCrystal 💝💝💝💝💝. 7d

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Nancy Drew 22: The Clue in the Crumbling Wall | Carolyn Keene

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Wonderful discussion so far for the Old Attic, #LittenDetectives ! Our August #NancyDrewBR involves Nancy and crew, an inheritance, and a race against time before the bad guy finds the clue in the wall.

Discussion August 15th. All are welcome. Please let me know if you to be added or removed from the tag list.

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Librarybelle Thanks for reposting! 1w

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Librarybelle

Nancy Drew 22: The Clue in the Crumbling Wall | Carolyn Keene

Wonderful discussion so far for the Old Attic, #LittenDetectives ! Our August #NancyDrewBR involves Nancy and crew, an inheritance, and a race against time before the bad guy finds the clue in the wall.

Discussion August 15th. All are welcome. Please let me know if you to be added or removed from the tag list.

rubyslippersreads, DebinHawaii, DGRachel, BarkingMadRead, Jennifer3, kspenmoll, PurpleyPumpkin, JenlovesJT47, MariaW, CogsOfEncouragement, AnneCecilie, Born.A.Reader, Bookwormjillk, Read4life, StayCurious, bookandbedandtea, Laughterhp, Sace, Bren912, kwmg40, CSeydel, Ruthiella, dabbe, Julies_Bookshelf_Adventures, Enchanted_Bibliophile, Allylu, TheAromaofBooks, Charityann, Roary47, KristiAhlers, peanutnine, PageShifter, AmandaBlaze

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BarkingMadRead Can‘t wait! 1w

Librarybelle @BarkingMadRead 😁 1w

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Ruthiella A crumbling wall! Curious! 👀 1w

Librarybelle Yes, @Ruthiella ! 1w

Sace Looking forward to it! 1w

Librarybelle Yay, @Sace ! 1w

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CogsOfEncouragement

Nancy Drew 21: The Secret in the Old Attic | Carolyn Keene

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I‘m with @Librarybelle and also rate this a light pick. I always enjoy the #NancyDrewBR discussions of these iconic chapter books. I have more to say about this one and put my comments as spoilers below.

CogsOfEncouragement What I found kinda far fetched in this one was using a candle to search the attic. ND drove back and forth from the March's home a zillion times. She is even said to have run errands at one point. Girl, pick up a battery from your house or the store. Better yet, grab a camping lantern from your garage which we all know you have. 1w

CogsOfEncouragement I love when Ned is around to take direction from ND and do just as she says. To have her back, and assist in the caper. Ned showed up out-of-nowhere just to save ND this time and that was a disappointment. George and Bess should have saved ND if the writer couldn't figure out how to have Ned in the plot. 1w

dabbe 🩵🎯🎯🩵 for both of your points. 1w

Librarybelle Yes! Completely agree! 1w

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Librarybelle

Nancy Drew 21: The Secret in the Old Attic | Carolyn Keene

So sorry I am late in posting today! I overslept, had things to do this morning, and today is Sebastian‘s birthday. Crazy morning!

5 questions are posted as spoilers; you can find them on my feed, the book‘s feed, or by searching #NancyDrewBR .

Next month, we uncover The Clue in the Crumbling Wall. 😮

Roary47 Happy Birthday Sebastian! I hope the rest of your day runs more smoothly. Thank you for posting the discussion questions. 💛 1w

Ruthiella No worries! Happy birthday to Sebastian! 🥳😻 1w

Sace Happy birthday Sebastian! 1w

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DGRachel Happy Birthday Sebastian! 🥳 1w

Librarybelle Thank you, @Roary47 @Ruthiella @Sace @DGRachel ! I hate oversleeping, something I rarely do, and that threw me off. My priority this morning was to make sure Sebastian felt some extra love and received extra yummies from me! 1w

BarkingMadRead Happy birthday to Sebastian 1w

DebinHawaii Happy Birthday to Sebastian! 🎉🎉🎉 1w

Librarybelle Thank you, @BarkingMadRead @DebinHawaii ! 1w

MemoirsForMe Happy Birthday Sebastian! 🎉 1w

Librarybelle Thank you, @MemoirsForMe ! 1w

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Librarybelle

Nancy Drew 21: The Secret in the Old Attic | Carolyn Keene

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5. We talked about the spookiness of the story, but I always like to compare the adventures in the books (what does that say about me??? 😂)

Think of the dangers Nancy faces in this one--even Mr. March had a rock thrown at him in the beginning of the book. Any stand outs this time? I'd not be happy if a spider, poisonous or not, was on the loose and approaching me. #NancyDrewBR

Bookwormjillk Her stealing the chemicals from the scarf factory (?) stood out to me. While probably not admissible in court I loved that part. 1w

Roary47 @Bookwormjillk I didn‘t even think of that! It‘s true she did swoop them. I thought it was interesting that she knew someone that she disliked, and that girl still left her alone to wander the factory. Like I mentioned earlier I didn‘t think the spider was all that scary, but Mr March getting in the way and alerting the intruder felt like he was purposely trying to sabotage the investigation. Although she did seem really alone and needed backup! 1w

Ruthiella While she was not conked on the head, she was imprisoned-very common predicament for the sleuth! 😅 And the industrial espionage was pretty nail biting, though I found it a little cavalier of Mr. Drew to ask her to do it. 1w

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Sace I actually liked the industrial espionage story better than the stolen music story. 1w

DGRachel I‘m with @Sace in liking the industrial espionage aspects more. I do love a good attic search for hidden “treasures” but I think Mr March‘s character, his insistence that the music was his son‘s based on having heard the melody and the constant woe-is-me made me less interested in the outcome. I found him a pathetic character instead of sympathetic, if that makes sense, and that annoyed me. 1w

dabbe Nancy being captured and tightly bound by the culprit leaves her completely helpless. Unlike other “bound“ moments in other books, she literally can't wiggle her way out of this one, truly becoming the damsel who needs a #nednickersonrescuefromoutoftheblue. 1w

DebinHawaii @dabbe I feel like George & Bess could have done the spider stepping! 👞🕷️🥿 Okay, maybe not Bess! 🤣🤣🤣 1w

Ruthiella @DebinHawaii Don‘t sell Bess short! Remember in the case of the exploding oranges aka The Moss Covered Mansion , she ran to a doctor and fed the attacking bobcat tranquilizer-doped meat! 😂 1w

DebinHawaii @Ruthiella You bring up a very valid point! 😂 1w

MariaW I liked the Mr Drew part of the mystery more interesting as well, Nancy‘s mystery was more about poking around the attic cluelessly. (edited) 1w

kwmg40 I found Nancy's spying in the factory the most tense part of the story. 1w

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Librarybelle

Nancy Drew 21: The Secret in the Old Attic | Carolyn Keene

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4. Though in the story, we do not see much of Bess and George. And in the 1970 edition, Ned is a very random insert into the story...I almost rolled my eyes thinking of the “knight in shining armor“ just happening upon Nancy in distress.

Instead, we have the Marches and Effie. Any thoughts on the secondary characters? More in the comments regarding Effie and a theory from one reader. #NancyDrewBR

Librarybelle While most reviewers believe that Effie is the Effie from the Larkspur story--Effie is Hannah's niece--one reviewer thinks this is a different Effie. Nowhere in this story is Effie mentioned as Hannah's niece; this reviewer's thoughts indicate that Effie is a stereotypical non-white servant character as portrayed in literature in the early 1900s, and her mannerisms suggest the stereotype's exaggeration. I think she's the niece. Thoughts? 1w

Bookwormjillk I kind of was on team Effie. If my employer left me alone in a falling down house with poison spiders I'd want to go home too! Honestly where is HR when you need them? I thought she was the niece as well. 1w

Roary47 @Bookwormjillk @Librarybelle I also think it was the niece. Nancy knew her and picked her to help our father/granddaughter duo. Effie doesn‘t seem like a common name/nickname so I didn‘t think much of it. Effie in the other book helped out in maid like duties too didn‘t she? “Where is HR” I love that! 🤣 It‘s true she got bit and sick and then she is being left alone. Poor Effie! 1w

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Ruthiella I just assumed it was the same Effie from before. And she was a bit of a dingbat in Larkspur Lane too. 1w

DGRachel While they didn‘t mention Effie being the niece, her name was dropped like she was a character we‘d seen before, so I assumed she‘s the niece. I agree that she does have non-white servant stereotypical mannerisms, but I still think she‘s the niece and that the ditzy air is the “young working class girls are not as sophisticated as brilliant Nancy Drew” and therefore classist not racist in this instance. 1w

dabbe Did anyone read the 1944 version? I didn't, but in researching, it definitely had Effie exhibiting more lower-class stereotypical behavior, especially with her dialect. Just for fun, I asked AI if these Effies were the same, and AI said NO! 😱 ... quite emphatically, I might add. Even though they have the same name, AI stated that this was l“ikely due to the Stratemeyer Syndicate‘s reuse of minor character names across ghostwritten books.“ 🤷‍♀️ 1w

BarkingMadRead Effie is such a space case, she makes me nuts, and don‘t even get me started on Ned showing up. I‘m sure the 70s girls swooned 🤣 1w

bookandbedandtea @Roary47 @Bookwormjillk @Librarybelle I thought Effie was the same character from the earlier book. She worked as a "flighty" maid before and she seemed to react much the same way in this book so it made sense to me that she was the same person we had already met. As for Ned showing up, I love him, generally, but this came out of nowhere and struck me as annoying. Would have made more sense for it to be Mr Drew. 1w

CogsOfEncouragement Same name + same role = same character. I love a Ned that is around to take direction from ND and do just as she says. This out-of-nowhere-Ned was a disappointment. George and Bess should have saved ND if the writer couldn't figure out how to have Ned in the plot. Mr. March is useless, but I guess that is the point. ND needed to come do things he couldn't seem to get done. He was too old and Susan was too young. 1w

DebinHawaii I think she is the niece. She‘s also the one who packed Nancy‘s passport into the trunk in the Brassbound Trunk. @dabbe Interesting on the AI but ask it what it‘s sources are because I asked it once if a particular character died at the end of a book because I needed fair warning & it said yes & I questioned it and then got who actually died, so 🤷🏻‍♀️ Also, I must repeat my response to an earlier question, Ned came in & stepped on a spider ⬇️ (edited) 1w

DebinHawaii … to “save” Nancy. I‘m not ready to knight him yet! 🕷️😱🤣 1w

dabbe @DebinHawaii Oh, I know AI gets things WAY wrong! For some reason I find great pleasure in telling it that it was wrong, but then I think I'm enabling it by making it smarter. 😅 And good call on Ned. He's nowhere near ready to be a knight yet. 😍 1w

DebinHawaii @dabbe I like telling it that it‘s wrong too! 😉🤣 1w

MariaW I loved the relationship of Mr March and his granddaughter and how he tries everything to male sure he can care for her. And I agree on Effie being the niece as well. There must be a character that is firghtened a lot, so that Nancy can outshine them with her bravery and this time it‘s Effie. 1w

kwmg40 I would have liked more George and Bess and I agree that Ned showing up out of nowhere and saving Nancy seemed somewhat artificial. 1w

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Librarybelle

Nancy Drew 21: The Secret in the Old Attic | Carolyn Keene

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3. An element I picked up on in this story was the extra spooky tone, and that could be because of the black widow spiders (I think I would pass up on the mystery and drive off into the sunset) and the skeleton. I did not read this one as a kid, but I think it would have given me nightmares (I'm very squeamish).

What did you think of the spooky level? #NancyDrewBR

Bookwormjillk I loved it. There's something about an old skeleton in an attic with hidden rooms that makes me happy. 1w

Roary47 @Bookwormjillk I agree I really enjoyed this spooky level. I double as an entomologist when I focused my degree on plants and bugs…. So I‘m probably outside the norm in not thinking ONE spider was scary. Give me an 8 legged freaks scenario and then I‘ll be creeped out the skeleton in the attic was pretty creepy since it moved a few times! 😱 1w

Ruthiella Agree, this one doubled down on the spookiness! Skeletons, spiders, secret compartments and rooms…😱 1w

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Sace I found this pretty spooky as well especially the music coming from seemingly no where. 1w

DGRachel I loved the spookiness, especially with the skeleton, but I do wish Nancy would get a functioning flashlight. How she managed not to set the dusty old attic on fire with her candles is beyond me. 😂 1w

dabbe @DGRachel 😂🙌🏻😂 1w

dabbe I particularly loved the 1970 cover art (featuring a skeletal hand and candlelit shadows): it leans into Gothic horror, evoking the DARK SHADOWS aesthetic of the era. And how can you not love the literal skeleton in the closet that figuratively holds the secrets, too? And that creepy attic! The March mansion‘s attic is described as dark, cluttered, and filled with hidden dangers, you know, like black widow spiders. Sure, use them to make gossamer. 1w

BarkingMadRead Very spooky in the best way, I‘m not a fan of spiders so that helped and I loved the spooky attic 1w

bookandbedandtea @DGRachel I'm with you! I cringed every time she went up there with a candle! ONE candle! 🤦‍♀️ 1w

CogsOfEncouragement I think this has a good level of peril for a chapter book. And the use of poisonous spiders by the bad guy because he has an obsession with them would make perfect sense to my 1970s kiddo self. I grew up where we would find them in the garage sometimes. I knew to carefully kill them on sight. So, scared of them in a way that respected their danger but not too scared to deal with them. 1w

DebinHawaii Spiders plural are scary & black widows scare me from childhood. I like a good spooky attic & skeleton. @bookandbedandtea & @DGRachel if mystery is you business, you need extra flashlights & batteries! 🔦🔦🔦 1w

MariaW I thought the spiders were pretty scary because most people are afraid they can be poisonous. But I laughed hard at rhe skeleton in the closet … ehm … wardrobe, it sounded like a joke right away. 1w

kwmg40 I liked the extra bit of spookiness that the spiders and fake skeleton brought. The setting did have some haunted-house vibes even if we knew that there wasn't any supernatural element. 1w

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