If Follow my Leader is about the kid blinded by fireworks I totally read (and re-read) that book when I was a kid. I remember thinking it would be worth being blind to have such a great dog. ...I don't think that way anymore.
Xander ,'First Date'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
My step-sister, who has a PhD in English, just said that The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is the first mystery she's ever read. How is that possible?
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is the first mystery she's ever read
No Christie?! No Conan Doyle?! No P.D. James, for goodness sake?!
The only mysteries I've read are the ones I picked up at my grandmother's house after running out of other books (since she uses the spare bedroom mainly to store books when she's done reading them). I doubt I could tell you any of their names.
Does Oedipus Rex count? I would think so.
No Christie?! No Conan Doyle?! No P.D. James, for goodness sake?!
Not even Nancy Drew.
That baffles me, Raq. I mean, a PhD in ENGLISH! Wow.
I love mysteries.
Huh, Nancy Drew might have been the first mysteries I read. And Hardy Boys. And Trixie Belden.
I skipped Trixie Belden because my mom had her Cherry Ames books.
I imagine there are mystery families and not-mystery families, in addition to people.