Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Ghostly Romances

Last week I left the book I was reading at my aunt's store. I was too lazy to drive back over to get it (it wasn't that good of a book), but I wanted to read something, so I started on The Mediator series by Meg Cabot. These are, of course, my daughter's books, but the truth is I actually like books intended for teens. I enjoy re-reading old favorites, like Judy Blume & Beverly Cleary, but I find I like newer authors, too. There's one series I particulary like, called Dear America, which explore the viewpoints of mostly 11-to-13-year-old kids at different moments in history, written as if they were diaries. My daughter's too old for those now, but we still have a number of them on the bookshelves, mainly because I like them. Books that I like I tend to keep, because they're fun to re-read years later.

If you recognize the name Meg Cabot, you're probably thinking of The Princess Diaries. She's written a couple of other series, including The Mediator, as well as a few books for adults. This particular series is about a girl who can talk to dead people, and falls in love with a ghost. I read the first book, then went on to read the sequels because I wanted to find out what happened with the ghost-romance. Which I find amusing, since I don't read romance novels much anymore. I loved them as a teenager, but then I grew up, and although I still read them occasionally, I find I'm much happier in my marriage when I stick to regular old fiction. Because, let's face it, I love my husband dearly, but he doesn't exactly act the way those guys in the romance novels do. Nobody does.

Anyway, The Mediator books got me thinking about an old TV show, called The Ghost And Mrs. Muir. Does anybody else remember this show? It was about a widow (a young widow) who moved into an old house inhabited by the ghost of a seacaptain. I seem to remember the widow looking something like the blonde girl on The Munsters, but I could be wrong. I know the captain had a beard. I couldn't give you the plot of a single episode, but I'm pretty sure that there was some sort of sexual-tension going on between the widow and the ghost. As much sexual-tension as was allowed back then, anyway; I think it was filmed in black & white. It must not have run very long, or else it wasn't very popular, or it would already be on TV Land.

There's no real point to this entry, just one more useless memory dredged up and dusted off. I do wonder, though, if the widow ever got together with the ghost before the show ended...

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