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.
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