Tuesday Mooney Talks To Ghosts: An Adventure

Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts is one of my favorite reads this year. The story is filled with wonderful descriptive narratives. The characters are quirky, complex and delicious. Tuesday Mooney lost a great friend in her teens. However the friend never really left. Her ghostly familiar always had an opinion and never shuts up, which drives Tuesday crazy. Could the friendly ghost be trying to help her out in some way? Tuesday does not play well with others. It is a good thing she is a project researcher – a job that does not require too much interaction with her coworkers. She has no friends per say, except other misfits to console with. A haunted house and the chance for adventure awaits Tuesday. A mysterious rich man, Pryce, recently died and wanted to challenge the living. He created clues with the promise of treasure if they could be solved. His challenge went out to the general public. And so the game begins. Mr. Pryce has a lesson to teach humanity. Will the challengers learn their lesson? Look for the table of lost souls and which people are playing parts. I highly recommend this book to all. It is both entertaining and soul searching.

At times, especially in the beginning, the whole theme, characters, storyline, comes across a bit high schoolish, rather than an adult life demeanour. A few chapters in, and I seriously thought I wouldn't be able to finish this. The more I persisted, the more I found myself entertained with the book. It started to fan out and loss that edge of immaturity I originally picked up on. I have to say by the end of the book, it goes a little deeper than it initially appears on the surface. Makes you realize how many people, ourselves included, proceed through daily life, hiding our true nature, and not accepting what's right there all along. For a lot, just as Tuesday, and her pre-adolescent neighbor find, it's only once we lose someone through death, or even other ways, that we begin to know life is for the living. Unfortunately for many it can take a lifetime before this realization comes to light. We also tend to parade around in character, rather than letting others get to know the true us. In my humble opinion, I think this has to do more with not loving, or believing in, ourselves enough. If I can't love, accept, embrace, the real me, than how can I expect anyone else to want to? Instead we hide behind closed doors, real and metaphorical. The life lesson of being willing to relinquish what hasn't worked in the past, by opening up, putting ourselves out there as the real you, with all of our vulnerabilities is scary. It comes with the possible price of pain, rejection, and…