Set in high hills.There
stood a school.So huge,to take it all at one glimpse.It was a great learning
environment with so many buildings painted in cream.It was another
hot-summer-afternoon.They had their cycle tests coming up next week.Their lunch
break just ended.All the hustle-bustle settled down.The sun was all
bright,lighting up the empty quadrangle like a golden chandelier hung from an
invisible ceiling.The second bell rang, marking pin drop silence.They had a session
outside their classroom.They lined up and started moving. The walkway seemed to go on forever, the coloured
mosaic floor continued to support their steps till they reached a huge hall.Hung everywhere were signboards which read
'SILENCE',they droned gently to the hot summer wind.
To the rear end was a rectangular-spectacled stout women sitting in an old chair reading herself to a book. That dimly sunkissed hall, was the guardian angel of books - The library.Its walls lined up with large wooden almirahs stacked up with story books, science journals, nancy harry novels, tin tin magazines , all possible newspapers and a vast collection of books boasting records as old as 30 years from it's past.
While the whole class
was in queue for Goosebumps.She went on to pick up a Nancy Drew.Like she always
did. Nancy is quite the super girl - good looking,well dressed and excelling at
everything - be it sports,dancing,cooking or problem solving.A hotshot in
short! :D
The character had a
profound influence on that little girl.She admired her.Though there were TinTin
magazines spread all over the old wooden table.She eagerly looked at her new
nancy novel.Feeling it through her fingers ,she kept turing pages and stopped
when it read Chapter 1.All the whispering sounds around,
started to vanish,comforting her with a new friend on an adventurous journey.The
library was left behind and she started solving the mystery along with Nancy-her
first book friend.
P.S - From Old Clock to The Thirteenth Pearl,(The classic #56 novels were written by various writers, all under the pen name Carolyn Keene.),Nancy goes about solving mysteries.She drives a dark-blue convertible.She lives in a large red-brick house in the fictional town of River Heights with her father,the famous and successful lawyer Carson Drew and the housekeeper Hannah Gruen who helped raise Nancy after her mother's death when Nancy was three years old.
And Nancy Drew also did some crossovers with the Hardy Boys,which were my absolute favourites back then.
ReplyDeleteI fondly recollect pestering the library mam to let me checkout one of those Fear Street books in sixth grade. But we weren't allowed to check those out until after seventh grade.
This is something new! I never read any of those crossovers, were they available in our library? :o
ReplyDeleteFearstreet!?!
I didn't even read goosebumps. Stine was always an epitome of horror for me.
I prefer mystery to horror, then and now; so, Stine always rested in peace. :p
Well, there was at least one. That is how I came upon their existence. But the only thing I seem to remember from that book is that Nancy and Frank Hardy had a thing for each other. :P
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, mystery trumps horror for me too. But I retain the taste for a good horror novel, every now and then.