Pat Perrin's Reviews
Reviews of Pat’s Work
Feb.25.2011
Published by http://biblioreads.blogspot.com/2011/02/juggler-in-wind-young-adult.html
WOW. I intended to read the first chapter before bed and then a little each day over the weekend, but twelve chapters later I had to tear myself away so I could get some sleep!...
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Nov.01.2010
Published by Midwest Book Review: Klausner's Bookshelf
This is a terrific young adult thriller that provides a fascinating look at the ancient Greek Gods (mindful of classic Star Trek's Who Mourns for Adonis?). The story line is fast-...
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Jan.04.1991
Published by Publishers Weekly
In this fresh, experimental novel, a psychotherapist, Hector Glasco, attempts to cure Hilary, a jaded movie queen, of her "perpetual sense of déja vu." … Cleverly plotted and...
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Oct.27.2010
Published by Saffron Tree internet site
It would seem that simplicity is, in fact, a remarkably difficult thing to achieve. And yet, surrounded as we are by the noise, pollution and violence that we often call progress...
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Sep.27.2010
Published by Birdbrained Book BLog
People have compared this book to the Percy Jackson series. That’s like saying Sabrina the Teenage Witch is comparable to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The difference between those...
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Aug.01.2009
Published by Midwest Book Review: Children's Bookwatch, August 2009, Reviewer's Choice
"The Taker and the Keeper" is a Red Monocle series paperback that features middle-school protagonists and reluctant heroes Gregory Guest and Yolanda Torres. Through use of the red...
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Storytelling, like all art, like life, is an act of learning—of finding out. We are mistaken to assume that stories of transformation are only about transformation, mere illustrations. Instead, they are transformation itself, acts of practical alchemy, with the power to alter the reality of every receptive person they touch. (That’s why we must learn to recognize a hate-based tale in any garb, and admit that nothing holy feeds on pain.) As we live our stories and tell them, we learn what they are about … and they change … and they transform.”
—from our memoir/essay “A Mexico of the Mind” (anthologized in Solamente en San Miguel.)
About Pat
I'm a writer and visual artist, the author of books and essays for both mainstream and educational publishers. My husband, Wim Coleman, and I often collaborate, and together we've written, edited, or contributed to some 65 publications. Earlier on, I spent...