{"id":4024,"date":"2020-10-05T20:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T07:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/?p=4024"},"modified":"2020-11-10T20:27:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T07:27:53","slug":"rain-kirsty-gunn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2020\/10\/05\/rain-kirsty-gunn\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain &#8212; Kirsty Gunn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/rain-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4008\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/rain-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/rain-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/rain-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/rain-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/rain-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/rain-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/rain-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you ever read a book or watch a film where you could just tell that something awful was going to happen? You dreaded the turn of every page in anticipation of the imminent horror. And yet you just had to keep reading, to find out what actually happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This short novella is like that. It\u2019s just a childhood reminiscence, but a vague air of menace and foreboding builds throughout. I knew what was going to happen almost from the beginning, but I didn\u2019t know when. The anticipation was such that even when another horrible thing happened, I just shook my head because I knew that wasn\u2019t The Thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I enjoyed the writing in the story despite the oppressive atmosphere. The book is as long as it needs to be &#8212; Gunn could easily have made it longer, but that would have made it less good.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you ever read a book or watch a film where you could just tell that something awful was going to happen? You dreaded the turn of every page in anticipation of the imminent horror. And yet you just had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2020\/10\/05\/rain-kirsty-gunn\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,97,19,63],"class_list":["post-4024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-books","tag-kirsty-gunn","tag-new-zealand","tag-novels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4025,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024\/revisions\/4025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}