For a good long while, I probably didn't read much of anything for pleasure except for the Boxcar Children series; and then my mom introduced me to her childhood best friends: Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden.
We went over to my grandma's house for some reason, maybe even for the books themselves. Mom pulled out a box Grandma had stored away, and in it were several, several books! Probably about twenty Nancy Drew books (not necessarily the first twenty in the series) and about thirty Trixie Belden books (all the books in the series up to that point).
I dove into Nancy Drew immediately, and I started hoarding copies of those books much the same way as I had the Boxcar Children books. I now have about fifty Nancy Drew books!
Trixie Belden was a little harder for me to get into at the time just because it was so different from what I was used to reading. It was still a mystery series, true; but it had continuity! Shocker!
In the Boxcar Children, the continuity sort of stopped after the first five or so books. The only kind of continuity that continued after that was just the close family: the four kids and their dog of course, and their grandfather, and (very) occasionally their cousin and their great-aunt and (maybe) their housekeeper. And even at that, their great-aunt somehow melted off the years through the books to become just their aunt.
Nancy Drew was sort of the same way. She had a friend Helen Corning in the beginning, which somehow switched to Bess Marvin and George Fayne in later books. After Ned Nickerson was introduced in one of the books, I think Dave and Butch were also added for Bess and George's sake. And then those five became a (near) constant throughout most of the series - the only (near) constant in the series. Well, aside from Carson Drew and Hannah McGruen.
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