A Ghost in the House by Betty Ren Wright

Meg and her new best friend Rhoda are looking forward to a lovely summer. It happened a few times in The Secret Window, too, but this time it felt like every single time she turned around, there was someone there telling her to sideline her own fear or pain or anger for someone else’s sake, and HOO BOY IT MADE ME SO MAD. I decided this story could have three stars.A Ghost in the Window is the sequel to The Secret Window.įirst, a brief rant: The number of times in this book that Meg is encouraged or overtly ordered to put her feelings aside so as to make life easier for other people is downright infuriating. However, Meg had predictive dreams that offer some metaphysical pizzazz. I object that the major part of Betty’s story is not how to craft anything entitled “ A Ghost In The Window”. This story was in coconut, two star territory, until unexpectedly nice family dynamics coalesced. The household’s son, meanwhile, was angry about his late Dad being labelled a thief. He did not tell her he is boarding in town and was an ass regarding her justifiable astonishment. Meg at least hoped for time with her Dad at the beach. The rub is that after an irritable start a ghost barely exists and we are not even treated to the potentially exotic cottage atmosphere. Meg’s Mom did not support her Dad’s dreams, who is surviving without much of his income since parting. She is supposedly depressed about having gotten a divorce but even as a fellow woman: I get the separation! Writers earn zilch for awhile, if we are going to dare working at it seriously towards a career. This novel differs only in the Mother figure being an unimaginably selfish whiner. We are the only species who drinks another species’ milk, as adults to boot.Ī problem the 1980s and 1990s did have in literature, is a million stories that all started their adventures with a teenager angry about going somewhere forcibly. No one was allergic to nuts in the 1980s, by the way. Much prolific output is prey to the chocolate box conundrum: a few contain coconut, instead of the gooey caramel or sumptuous nuttiness.

I acquainted her in this decade, even though stories like this 1987 one, came out in my childhood. Betty Ren Wright is highly appreciated by me.

A Ghost in the House by Betty Ren Wright