No harm done! It was so short and I would have thoroughly enjoyed hating it if I didn't feel bad about stepping on the toes of an honest rec/how unfair I was being for comparing it to The Blue Castle at every turn. Though it is very similar. I wonder if it was one of those things where the author read a book twenty years prior and completely forgot it wasn't her own idea.
John Smith being the author of trashy romances would have made him much more interesting! It would have made his history of sexual frustration more interesting and his predicament vis-a-vis Missy more interesting, especially if he wrote the book that inspired Missy to propose to him. Honestly, it would even temper his misogyny a tiny bit if we knew he wasn't just bearing a boring grudge against all women on account of his wife, but also had mixed feelings about his audience and publisher expectations and whatever else. Instant character complexity! And it wouldn't have been any more out of nowhere than RANDOM GHOST WIFE: THE GHOSTENING in the last two pages.
MAN that ghost wife was random though. What was that? How did she carry books around, and get people to sign legal documents, and buy a dress if she was a ghost the whole time?? How did she get to be a ghost when no one else was a ghost? WHO ELSE IN THIS TOWN IS A GHOST??
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Date: 2017-06-07 10:53 pm (UTC)John Smith being the author of trashy romances would have made him much more interesting! It would have made his history of sexual frustration more interesting and his predicament vis-a-vis Missy more interesting, especially if he wrote the book that inspired Missy to propose to him. Honestly, it would even temper his misogyny a tiny bit if we knew he wasn't just bearing a boring grudge against all women on account of his wife, but also had mixed feelings about his audience and publisher expectations and whatever else. Instant character complexity! And it wouldn't have been any more out of nowhere than RANDOM GHOST WIFE: THE GHOSTENING in the last two pages.
MAN that ghost wife was random though. What was that? How did she carry books around, and get people to sign legal documents, and buy a dress if she was a ghost the whole time?? How did she get to be a ghost when no one else was a ghost? WHO ELSE IN THIS TOWN IS A GHOST??