{"id":9734,"date":"2020-08-29T20:03:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T00:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/?p=9734"},"modified":"2020-08-28T14:03:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T18:03:54","slug":"talkcast-252-things-that-it-isnt-not-things-that-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/?p=9734","title":{"rendered":"TalkCast 252 \u2013 Things That It Isn\u2019t, Not Things That It Is"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When you discuss literature, inevitably one wonders what things are missing and in doing so , was it in error or purposeful. Welcome to the incomplete world of Heather M. Gooden<\/a>, an author who dangles more threads than a blind seamstress and does so knowinging and with gleeful malice. If every picture tells a story, then every clue MUST have a meaning. The delicious problem here is that some do…some might and some…well…we may never actually know. And THAT is the beauty of her writing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Having read nothing else by the prolific Mags, we were both perplexed by her writing attributes: candor, style, economy of words which in this case leads to a story that tells so very much in such a short time and leaves you wanting so much more. The last few weeks of the senior year of high school for anyone is filled with landmines in a perfect word, but the world of Robin is far from perfect. I could tell you all the mundane disasters that proliferate her life and the one or two rather outstanding\u00a0 crises ( the death of her mother early on, for one). I could tell you about how months before her birthday a present arrives for her from her mother’s birthplace, the Isle of Skye<\/a>, but I\u2019m not sure of it\u2019s meaning or significance other than it has meaning and significance (another thread).<\/p>\n

This is a novel novel written by a woman with a special skill for words and a unique style of storytelling. We should stop writing and you should start listening . THEN you should start reading The Cursed Heart<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/span>\nhttp:\/\/www.scifisaturdaynight.com\/podcast\/talkcast452.mp3<\/a><\/audio>

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