{"id":146,"date":"2008-06-18T23:07:24","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T03:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/18\/review-of-mozarts-ghost-by-julia-cameron\/"},"modified":"2008-10-12T18:27:25","modified_gmt":"2008-10-12T22:27:25","slug":"review-of-mozarts-ghost-by-julia-cameron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"Review of Mozart’s Ghost, by Julia Cameron"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mozart’s Ghost<\/em><\/p>\n

by Julia Cameron<\/p>\n

Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin’s Press, 2008.\u00a0 278 pages.<\/p>\n

Starred Review.<\/p>\n

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When a writer has written fabulous books about writing (The Right to Write<\/em> is one of Julia Cameron’s that I’ve read.), one always hopes that their own fiction is something you’d want to emulate.\u00a0 Can they practice what they preach?<\/p>\n

Julia Cameron can.\u00a0 Mozart’s Ghost <\/em>is a light and delightful love story, with quirky characters you enjoy spending your time with.<\/p>\n

All her life, Anna has seen and talked to ghosts.\u00a0 Now, as a single adult, she lives in New York City and makes her living — well, supplements her substitute teaching income — as a medium.\u00a0 She lets people know what their loved ones who have gone before want to say to them.<\/p>\n

But now a classical pianist named Edward has moved into Anna’s building.\u00a0 In the first place, his constant practicing is tremendously distracting.\u00a0 She can’t properly hear the ghosts.\u00a0 In the second place, there’s a ghost hanging around him, trying to reach the musician through Anna.\u00a0 This ghost thinks himself tremendously important and wants to help Edward so that his own music will be properly appreciated.\u00a0 Anna is not impressed.<\/p>\n

But Edward finds a place in her heart despite all her resistance.\u00a0 However, she has no intention of telling him her real job, since she finds most men can’t handle dating a medium.<\/p>\n

The course of their romance is comically beset with obstacles, like Anna’s complete lack of appreciation for Edward’s playing, her twin brother’s interference, and even the ghost’s interference.\u00a0 We feel for Anna and her desire to live a normal life, which simply doesn’t seem to be in the cards for her.<\/p>\n

This novel is tremendous fun, and peopled with quirky characters who seem like people you might just meet if you happened to knock on an apartment door in New York City.<\/p>\n

Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Find this review on the main site at:<\/p>\n

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Mozart’s Ghost by Julia Cameron Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin’s Press, 2008.\u00a0 278 pages. Starred Review. http:\/\/www.theartistsway.com\/ http:\/\/www.thomasdunnebooks.com\/ http:\/\/www.stmartins.com\/ When a writer has written fabulous books about writing (The Right to Write is one of Julia Cameron’s that I’ve read.), one always hopes that their own fiction is something you’d want to emulate.\u00a0 Can they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,22,24,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction-review","category-light-reading","category-romance","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}