{"id":8604,"date":"2017-02-10T14:38:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T22:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/?p=8604"},"modified":"2017-01-24T14:38:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T22:38:59","slug":"we-are-all-completely-beside-ourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2017\/02\/we-are-all-completely-beside-ourselves\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1364850195l\/16176440.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Books rarely surprise me anymore.  A suspense, mystery, or SciFi could, and frequently do, surprised me with their plot or storyline, but fictions do not venture into an area that I have not been before, let alone not even thought existed.  Hence a critical difficulty in review this book without spoiling it.<\/p>\n<p>Years ago, I read Diane Setterfield&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2006\/12\/the-thirteenth-tale-a-novel\/\">The Thirteenth Tale<\/a><\/em>.  It was a good mystery that I gradually forgot the details.  Karen Joy Fowler aroused a memory from that book, about twins being forcibly separated and the trauma of such separation, only a couple of days, has inflicted on them.  The lost of a twin sibling is said to be the biggest emotional trauma, more severe than lost of a child, spouse, or parent.  The damage could last a life-time.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s as far as I would go without spoiling it.  There!<\/p>\n<p>I knew, yet completely forgot, that it was a fiction.  I was truly submerged into the book and thought it was all real.  That was the second surprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books rarely surprise me anymore. A suspense, mystery, or SciFi could, and frequently do, surprised me with their plot or storyline, but fictions do not venture into an area that I have not been before, let alone not even thought &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2017\/02\/we-are-all-completely-beside-ourselves\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[680,681],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8604"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8604"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8612,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8604\/revisions\/8612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}