Broom Hilda by Russell Myers for October 20, 2011

Don’t poke fun at Nancy Drew. I loved those books when I was in Jr. High.

Why didn’t you put the Nancy Drew boks on thebottom self and save yourself a bundle od money?

MARG! Read in Yahoo news yesterday that Tusconhas the highest rate of abandoned or foreclosedbuildings in the US. You don’t live there do you?

No, I don’t. That’s too bad about Tucson, it’s a nice place.

Hmmm, A bookcase sitting outdoors?

My “Complete Works” is in one volume. Did Broomie buy six copies?

And I loved the Hardy Boy mysteries, but I wountn’t put them – or let anyone put them at the top of an unreachachable shelf.

True story: I once saw a girl at a used bookstore in Tokyo with a stack of very impressive stack of hardcover books for purchase. Great authors, Shakespeare, Dickens, etc. I said something complimentary in English only to find out she didn’t speak it at all.

She was buying books to use as decorations in a new coffee shop and had cribbed a list of famous authors from the Internet. I didn’t know whether to cry or smack her. I think I ended up getting drunk that night.

Maybe, back when she was a sweet young thing of 1100, Broomie and WIll dated. Was the “Dark Lady of the Sonnets” a dark green?

If they had a bad break-up, it could explain why she’s taken this long to buy his work. Painful memories, and all that…

I liked the Bobsey Twins. My older sister was into Trixie Belden. My oldest sister liked Nancy Drew. We had them all!

over, under—— has anyone ever been simply whelmed? Just curious.