A Nancy Drew Life

I've just finished reading Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak, and I read it with the identical page-turning eagerness with which I read the original Nancy Drews. As the author of the book states, we don't really remember the plots and how they twist, but we certainly do remember Nancy. Nancy is free. She doesn't go to school, has no chores, doesn't work; she devotes all of her time and effort to the solving of mysteries. Having no other commitments, she's always available to make things right. And she does.

Now, it's a typical thing to stop as an adult and revisit the imaginary worlds one knew as a child, and to note with bitterness and disappointment the immense schism that exists between the world one expected and the world one got. How happy for me, then, that I actually DID grow up to be Nancy Drew!