6/27/2023 0 Comments Ghosts I Have Been by Richard Peck![]() ![]() ![]() And in the company of dotty Miss Dabney and old pal Alexander, Blossom sails to London where she's immortalized at Mme. ("Her spirit may roam but she calls Bluff City home"). She becomes a local celebrity: "Blossom Culp-Pintsize Prophetess," advertises the Chamber of Commerce. ![]() For Blossom-and readers-it's a night to remember. Plucky Blossom Culp, Bluff City social outcast, in 1914, starts out as a mystic manqué tricking gullible classmates, but then suddenly she starts having honest-to-goodness visions: first of a car accident, then strange flashforwards (even one of the moon landing), and finally a trip back twenty months in time to relive the watery demise of a British boy who sank on the Titanic. This is still a blithe and spirited occult comedy with fewer genuine spooky moments but plenty of out-and-out belly laughs. Once again there's a child-ghost in trouble and once again an eccentric oldster steps in to take Alexander and Blossom on exotic travels. So closely does this follow The Ghost Belonged to Me (1975) that at times Peck's sequel on Second Sight verges on déja vu. ![]()
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