Check back later for more about my favorite author, Richard Peck. The FABULOUS Richard Peck, if you've ever read one of his books.
This book is HILARIOUS!
...And so is the sequel!
I love this book, too. It's so twisted and funny!
...And so is the sequel. Duh!
The Complete Blossom Culp Series
| The Ghost Belonged to Me | 
| Ghosts I Have Been | 
| The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp | 
| Blossom Culp and the Sleep of Death | 
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Great Quotes from “Ghosts I Have Been”
“As the poet says, Not drunk is he who from the floor Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is he, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.”
--Blossom Culp on her father (pg. 4)
“Just over the streetcar tracks lives a well-to-do family, name of Armsworth. They have a son, Alexander, who’s in my same grade at school. He is getting to the lanky stage. However, being a boy, he’s not as mature for his age as I am. Boys never are, which is a scientific fact.”
--Blossom on Alexander (pg. 5)
“‘Talk is cheap, Blossom, particularly yours. Prove it!’”
--Letty Shambaugh (pg. 35)
“No one passing Ms. Dabney’s house fails to mention her craziness, even though many of these people have little to go on. Besides, I’ve noticed that only a thin line divides the insane from the rest of the population.”
--Blossom on Ms. Dabney (pg. 56)
“Later that week there were hot blueberry and at a later date, English scones. Minerva was not as steady a worker as a mortal. Still, she would do a little ghostly baking now and then, and she was rarely noisy. ‘I really ought to pay her a wage, if I knew how,’ Ms. Dabney would often say in a vague way.”
--Blossom on the end of the Minerva ordeal (pg. 86)
“The public does not mind being cheated, but they like it to be convincing.”
--Blossom on running the professor out of town (pg. 119)
“A local poet, name of Manfred Eams Davenport, wrote a poem honoring me which he recited with gestures in church halls. It went like this:
Down, down into the ice-strewn sea
Great Titan plunged with boilers burst,
With all its wealth and majesty,
A vessel vaunted and then curs’t;
And few to mark its watery grave
Except a bit of floating flotsam,
And many passed beneath the wave,
But not, thank God, our wondrous Blossom.
Miss Spaulding read it in class, without gestures, and pronounced it ‘sickening.’”
--Blossom on her local fame (pg. 146-147)
“Late in her life Ms. Dabney was discovered by all the ladies of Bluff City’s upper crust. She was suddenly invited to join the Daughters of the American Revolution club. This ‘turned her stomach,’ she said. The Daughters seemed not to know that she still rooted for the English to win in that particular war.”
--Blossom on Ms. Dabney’s local fame (pg. 160)
“The Shambaughs came, bringing Letty. She simpered up to me. Her eyes summed up the lace tippets on my Princess dress and the wide taffeta sash that was cutting me in half.
‘Well, Blossom, just look at you!’ she said in her mother’s own grown-up voice. ‘I have always said a good dress will cover up any flaw.’
‘Then you had better get one like it,’ I replied.”
--Blossom at the bon voyage party (pg. 163)
“‘It could have been much worse. The pair of you were so shifty-eyed at breakfast this morning that I feared for the Crown Jewels.’”
--Ms. Dabney on Blossom and Alexander’s little stunt at Madame Tussaud’s (pg. 207)
Bonus!
“Some people live high up on the hog and no mistake.”
--Blossom on the Armsworth family in the beginning of the book (pg. 17)
“Some people ‘ave an easy time of it and no mistake.”
--Sybil on the traveling party near the end of the book (pg. 178)
