Showing posts with label Kim Karras. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kim Karras. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Books I read in 2011

by Shelly Brown

Here is my list of books I read cover-to-cover in 2011. If we counted books I read a chapter here, a chapter there (most non-fiction that I read) or started but never finished (for one reason or another) this list would be much longer. As it is I KNOW it doesn't hold a candle to some of your lists but I find these lists amusing so I'm doing it anyways.


Beyonders
Twelfth Night
The Barcode Tattoo
Enna Burning
The Thing That Keep Us Here
The Comedy of Errors
Wonderwings and Other Fairy Stories
The Princess and The Goblin
Magyk
The Princess of the Glass
Emma Smith (by Black)
The Way, The Truth, and The Life
Harry Potter 3
Slathbogs Gold
The History of Joseph Smith by his Mother
The Daily Life of Jesus
The Amazing Powers of Spiderman
The Holy Land
Princess Academy
The Footsteps of Jesus
To Kill a Mockingbird
On Holy Ground
Maze Runner
Charles in Charge (Chad got this for me out of the elementary school recycling bin as a joke, but not being one to turn away Scott Baio, I read it. Someone just wrote the pilot as a novel)
Tarzan of the Apes
Goosebumps: One Day at Horrorland (did you know Brandon Dorman did the art for the new Goosebumps?)
The Witch on Blackbird Pond
Nancy Drew and the Dollhouse 
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Hardy Boys: The Spy that Doesn't Lie
Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go
Full Circle
Armies, Angels, and Jackson Boswells Amazing Imagination
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Gaes
Craggbridge Academy
My Ridiculous Romantic Obsession
Courting Miss Lancaster
The Strange Case of the Origami Yoda
Frankenstein
Emma
The Princess Bride
Amelia's Story
The Next Door Boys

If you're curious what I thought about any particular book or whatnot just ask in the comments and I'll tell you. But with this many books I figured that my commentary would get...well...long.

Monday, June 27, 2011

Loving the Language June 27th

Don't you just want to eat some words up?

Kim Karras from Confessions of a Bibliophile writes some of the yummiest stuff that I have read for a long time (might have something to do with my current diet of Goosebumps.) I LOVE her writing!

So when Jolene created a blogfest where we pick five lines from our current WIP that we love I immediately thought about Kim and her WIP. With her permission I want to share some of my favorites.


The children had scattered like jacks the moment she and Ms. Jackson had ushered them outside.

She had made a tent of her nightgown by pulling it over her knees and tucking the hem under her toes. The pony printed across the front of the gown was stretched so taut it was about to be drawn and quartered.

She closed her eyes and with a sincerity bordering on ferocity made her wish.

She couldn’t have conceived of the fact that the face she had gazed on since birth was finite, just as she couldn’t have imagined that time, that proceeded before her in a lazy, prodigal way, was finite, that its quality would alter as she aged, that it would quicken and accelerate and, eventually, run out altogether.

In all the world, there was nothing more serene than the face of a sleeping child. 


Don't you just love her already? And you don't even know what the story is about yet.

Kim to me is like a painter. She paints beautiful pictures with words and one day her work will be appreciated as art in the truest sense. If that day is tomorrow or after she passes, I don't know. But I do know that she is creating something she should be proud of. She has a gift.

P.S. Kim, I'm not predicting your demise or bad fortune in the publishing industry. I'm just making a point.






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