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Percy Jackson and the Olympians #1: The Lightning Thief (Part Three)
Previously on Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief: Percy discovers his parentage, is given a quest, nearly gets killed once, nearly gets killed again, meets the god of war, and nearly gets killed a third time. He’s been busy!
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians #1: The Lightning Thief (Part Two)
Previously on Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief: Within the span of about fifty pages, Percy Jackson has finished seventh grade, gotten kicked out of school, went to demigod camp, and met his future waifu, not that he knows that yet. What he hasn’t done is figured out who his father is, which is definitely not contributing to his abandonment issues at all.
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians #1: The Lightning Thief (Part One)
What’s up, I was looking through my blog and having a little chuckle at my own jokes, as I do, when I realized that like…all my posts for the last three years have been Nancy Drew-related — and I’m still working on those, but I figured I could mix it up a little! I loved the Percy Jackson books back in the day — I was a member of at least three PJO forums-slash-LiveJournal-communities (I remember having to defend my love of Taylor Swift from some of…
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Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #1: The Secret of the Old Clock (1959)
Man, I have seen the cover of this book so many times. For those of us not old enough to have lived through World War II, this is probably the version of the first book that we’re most familiar with, and it might be the most recognizable image of Nancy overall — look at her, in the middle of some random woods, whacking someone’s family heirloom with a screwdriver, staring judgmentally off into the distance. That’s what this series is all about. Anyway, my understanding of the…
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Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #1: The Secret of the Old Clock (1930)
The first Nancy Drew book, everybody! The game Secret of the Old Clock, you’ll recall, went back to Nancy’s roots with a detour to the 1930s for the setting, pulling primarily from the first four Nancy books: The Secret of the Old Clock, The Hidden Staircase, The Bungalow Mystery, and The Mystery at Lilac Inn. The end result was something like a mystery of an old clock hidden in an inn with a secret staircase. (IDK where bungalows come into it.) Never let it be said those games weren’t economical. (By…
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Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #77: The Bluebeard Room
What’s up guys, long time no post. Sorry about that. Shortly after I posted the Shadow Ranch recap, my life went precipitously downhill — my mother’s health got worse very quickly at the start of the summer; she passed away a few weeks ago. Not to make this wacky blog depressing, but — that’s what’s been going on. It’s been a garbage summer, so let’s cap it off with a garbage Nancy Drew book, shall we? One of my first thoughts upon reading The Bluebeard Room was “Idk why they didn’t…
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Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #5: The Secret of Shadow Ranch (1965)
Alright, we’re back to 2 Shadow 2 Ranch The Secret of Shadow Ranch, revamped for the modern times of 1965, with a brand-new plot and a brand-new preposition in the title. The first time we did this story, Nancy uncovered a kidnapping because she was convinced a child was too upper-class to be related to her caretakers. This time, the story is closer to the one we all know from the game: Nancy Drew goes to hang out with Bess and George at their family’s ranch, but accidents…
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Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #5: The Secret at Shadow Ranch (1931)
It’s horse girl time, everybody! The next Nancy game, Secret of Shadow Ranch, was based on one of the classic, early Nancy books, The Secret at Shadow Ranch (yes, the original title is different by exactly one preposition). The original Shadow Ranch book was published in 1931 and was later part of the ’60s overhaul of the books to make them more modern (i.e. have ’60s racism instead of ’30s racism). The two books are actually very different, plot-wise, and the game is largely based on the…
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians #1: The Lightning Thief (Part One)
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Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #1: The Secret of the Old Clock (1959)
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Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #1: The Secret of the Old Clock (1930)
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