I devoured the Nancy Drew books in my youth. Maybe a mix of the original and the revised. As a child reader and as an adult reader, it is second nature for me to just accept the racism, classism, or other issue as a factor of another time, or fiction. If it wasn't a reality in my world it was shrugged off as belonging to a different time or culture.

It jolts me more as an adult, and if the content is promoting values I find appalling that is one matter, but if it is incidental to one character it doesn't really distract me much.

I happened to reread a Cherry Ames book, and was appalled at how sexist it was. Her oh so great doctor husband was super condescending.

Also, anyone know where I can ahem an epub of Handmaid's Tale? I want to reread it before the show, but can't find my copy. I hate to buy another one. And it's checked out at the library.

Don't know about Handmaid's Tale. I can tell you where to ahem a copy of my book as such places seem to be the only thing that comes up in my Google alert for it.

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Aww! I like how excited and fannish the author sounds!

Vortex, I have about 50 copies of HMT. Ping me your snail mail and I'll drop one in the mail to you. msgullo at gmail.

Encyclopedia Brown is totally sexist but still fun to read. Though some of the solutions are both implausible or too easy.

My main criticism of Nancy Drew at this point is that she only spends like 15 minutes at a time investigating, and then she goes off to play shuffleboard or whatever for the rest of the day.

It's odd that thinking about The Handmaid's Tale always gets me thinking about the narrative device of the bag full of cassette tapes and how anachronistic that seems now, isn't it? Maybe because the oppression and what not is contrariwise so plausible and timely.

Random: They built a house for their books.

Little house for books sounds like an awesome idea to me. Also, super cute.