Red Wolf's Room

Photo by Donny Jiang on Unsplash As you may or may not know, Nancy Drew is still a popular heroine today. People continue to rewrite her story and modernize it to appeal to a new audience. However, those of us who have read the classic yellow hardback series know how Nancy and her origin was more or less written (several of the original stories from the 30s were rewritten a few times over the decades, so the yellow hardbacks we have today are not 100% original).  I am an avid Nancy Drew fan and reviewed the 2002 Disney movie of Nancy Drew where she's in college. This new 2019 iteration of the sleuth has Nancy hanging out with her friends Bess and George in one of the lower high school levels. We learn early on that Nancy used to see them only during summers. NOTE: This post contains major  spoilers for this movie (obvi) and HeR Interactive's games  The Ghost of Thornton Hall  and Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake . Opening credits still from  Nancy Drew: The Hidden Stai...

Nancy Drew postcards and Nancy Drew-related books I've read and watched and listened to and played quite a bit of Nancy Drew-related content. From reading The Secret of the Old Clock at age 11 to playing the Nancy Drew computer games to listening to podcasts, I have come to know a lot about the different versions of Nancy Drew. Like other detectives, I searched for the one I thought was the definitive Nancy and for me, it is Lani Manella from the computer games #1-32 (I have said this in previous posts). In terms of television and movies, Pamela-Sue Martin came close, but the creators kept changing the Nancy Drew lore around her, so it wasn't perfect for me.  I usually prefer the original version of something, whether its book covers or certain actors portraying characters (Here's hoping Liam Hemsworth portrays a good Geralt!). So, when CW's Nancy Drew show was announced in 2019, and I saw it was similar in atmosphere to Riverdale , I didn't bother to watch the sh...

The Girl on the Train movie will be coming out soon .  For those of you who have yet to read the book, I encourage you to do so.  I prefer fantasy, science fiction and classic mysteries, but this book does have mysterious aspects and twists that you may never see coming.  I'll begin from the beginning. **In case you didn’t see it the first time: Spoilers Ahead (and the Culprit is Revealed) ! The Girl on the Train has three women narrating: Rachel, Megan and Anna. Rachel - The main narrator and the girl on the train. She rides the train into town on her way to work everyday and passes her old house and street. Rachel notices a man and a woman a couple of doors down from her old house and imagines their perfect life together. Later, Rachel finds out about the woman’s disappearance and because of the fiction she created in her head, she feels obligated to figure out what happened. She was also in the neighborhood the day the woman disappea...