Gary Goldschneider's Blog
December 7, 2012
Suzanne White's review of Hearts
The first review of Hearts:
5.0 out of 5 stars HEARTS HAS LEGS December 6, 2012
By Suzanne White
Format:Kindle Edition
Eleven short stories, one more fancifully enchanting than the next, combine to make Gary Goldschneider's HEARTS a sublime read! It's not one of those books you come away saying "I couldn't put it down." HEARTS is more like a feast from which you must excuse yourself after each course in order to walk about the neighborhood and get a little digesting done. Each of the eleven tales is completely different one from the other. Each fills you right up and although you instantly want more, you really have to stop and think about what you have just ingested.
Goldschneider's prose is chock full of fantasy. He invents place names and creates new vegetation - almost in the fashion of Tolkien. He takes you on journeys to real places - Rome and Switzerland, Santa Cruz, California - where his characters live and work and study and teach and even die. This last usually happens because of some outrageous folly that they cannot swerve to avoid in the oncoming traffic of their lives.
As he writes his way through these one-short-of-a-dozen magical (yet very real) adventures, Gary's imagination gallops, trots and races off into the forest of his fertile mind (and ours). Then suddenly his fancy slows and returns to present us with a dénouement we were hardly expecting and which leaves us needing a short walk about the neighborhood before settling back at the table, eager to devour the next course.
5.0 out of 5 stars HEARTS HAS LEGS December 6, 2012
By Suzanne White
Format:Kindle Edition
Eleven short stories, one more fancifully enchanting than the next, combine to make Gary Goldschneider's HEARTS a sublime read! It's not one of those books you come away saying "I couldn't put it down." HEARTS is more like a feast from which you must excuse yourself after each course in order to walk about the neighborhood and get a little digesting done. Each of the eleven tales is completely different one from the other. Each fills you right up and although you instantly want more, you really have to stop and think about what you have just ingested.
Goldschneider's prose is chock full of fantasy. He invents place names and creates new vegetation - almost in the fashion of Tolkien. He takes you on journeys to real places - Rome and Switzerland, Santa Cruz, California - where his characters live and work and study and teach and even die. This last usually happens because of some outrageous folly that they cannot swerve to avoid in the oncoming traffic of their lives.
As he writes his way through these one-short-of-a-dozen magical (yet very real) adventures, Gary's imagination gallops, trots and races off into the forest of his fertile mind (and ours). Then suddenly his fancy slows and returns to present us with a dénouement we were hardly expecting and which leaves us needing a short walk about the neighborhood before settling back at the table, eager to devour the next course.
Wunderkind - Chronicles of an American Childhood
Wow! Just published my second book in a week on Amazon Kindle. After all 7 of my astrology books (Secret Language of Birthdays, Relationships, Destiny, etc.) which tell people about themselves my readers at last have a chance to find out many of my own personal secrets. This second work is the first volume of my autobiography. It is entitled Wunderkind: Chronicles of an American Childhood. It is the story of my life from birth until age 20. It is set against the background of the post-WWII period in America (late forties and fifties). I invite you to read it! http://www.amazon.com/Wunderkind-eboo...
December 4, 2012
Hearts review
So curious to see what my new Goodreads friends think of my just published Amazon Kindle book of short stories called Hearts. Once you have read them please be among the first to write a review...or be the first!
December 2, 2012
New Book
I am happy to announce the publication of my new book of 11 short stories, entitled Hearts, by Amazon Kindle. Here is a synopsis - Hearts is a book of 11 short stories. They are all about strange, even bizarre manifestations of love, most of them gone wrong. Although not overly comic, most of the stories carry ironic, humorous, occasionally puzzling touches that will lighten the reader's mood. As literature they owe a lot to the short-story Russian and French masters, but are distinctly American in tone, although the settings are in both the US and Europe. Each of these vignettes could represent an episode in a TV series and as such owe a great deal to the influence of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone on the author when growing up in Philadelphia. By the way, Hearts may be the most important word in the English language since no fewer than 75 words (and probably a few more) can be derived from its six letters. Lulu Lightning's cover shows a Pinata as a broken heart from which a few of these words are spilling out. Visit http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AFB2AK2 and enjoy!
