Pat Perrin
Author of Mayan Interface
About the Author
Disambiguation Notice:
Many of my books were written in collaboration with Wim Coleman. Author Cole Perriman is actually Wim Coleman and Pat Perrin.
Image credit: Wim Coleman and Pat Perrin
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- Canonical name
- Perrin, Pat
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Portland, Oregon, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA
Virginia, USA - Education
- Duke University (English)
Hollins University (Liberal Studies)
University of Georgia (Art Theory and Criticism) - Relationships
- Coleman, Wim (husband)
- Organizations
- San Miguel PEN, San Miguel Author Sala
- Short biography
- Pat is originally from Virginia, where she became an art teacher and award-winning visual artist. She spent some years on a Shenandoah Valley farm, raising and training horses, growing food, cooking on a woodstove, and learning about the land, all with the help of other artists and several energetic teenagers. Now she’s also an author, usually writing in collaboration with her husband, Wim Coleman. Wim Coleman and Pat Perrin have written, edited, or contributed to more than 60 books for young readers, including the award-winning Anna’s World. Some of their mainstream books have been translated into foreign language editions and taught in university courses.
- Disambiguation notice
- Many of my books were written in collaboration with Wim Coleman. Author Cole Perriman is actually Wim Coleman and Pat Perrin.
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This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.I'm kinda confused at how it ended...so i'm kind of hoping the next two books clear that up for me...but over all it's a pretty decent read.
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.An interesting book that kept me reading and wanting to know what was going to happen but after finishing it I'm still a bit confused....but that just makes me want to read the next to books in the trilogy. There's hints about the gods and there's more to find out about randy's mom-so I'm looking forward to the rest.
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.We've all heard of kids running away with the circus, but Randy didn't want that. He just wanted some answers. Why did the mysterious Circus Olympus unnerve his mother? Why were there weird disembodied voices calling him there? And who was this strange man that kept showing up in his dreams? When Randy goes to get these answers he catches the circus at the beginning of their get-away drive. So the only way to get answers is to jump on one of the trucks and hope for the best.
This book was a kind of mash-up between Percy Jackson and Pilo Family Circus, of course still kid friendly. If you happen to have read them both, you may see a difficulty of combination. . . but it's definitely there. From PJ the adventure aspect and myths/people from Olympus--though they don't quite know who they are. Which leads me to the PFC link: this is a circus of forgetfulness. No one fully remembers who they once were. The circus makes them different, realize who they are deep down. That, and people kind of know what's happening subconsciously--acting without understanding.
Surprisingly good and a quick read at 202 pages. Appropriate for the young'ns. I'd recommend for fans of Percy Jackson, new takes on old myths, children's lit, and mysterious magic.… (more)
This book was a kind of mash-up between Percy Jackson and Pilo Family Circus, of course still kid friendly. If you happen to have read them both, you may see a difficulty of combination. . . but it's definitely there. From PJ the adventure aspect and myths/people from Olympus--though they don't quite know who they are. Which leads me to the PFC link: this is a circus of forgetfulness. No one fully remembers who they once were. The circus makes them different, realize who they are deep down. That, and people kind of know what's happening subconsciously--acting without understanding.
Surprisingly good and a quick read at 202 pages. Appropriate for the young'ns. I'd recommend for fans of Percy Jackson, new takes on old myths, children's lit, and mysterious magic.… (more)
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She travels to Portland, Oregon to visit her niece who works at a museum with an extraordinary exhibit that lets you virtually walk through the Mayan temples and get up close to seeing how the villages may have looked at one time. It sounds like something I would be very interested in visiting.
When she finds out that her niece died of sheer fright from something she saw in the virtual walk through the ruins, she makes a decision to stay in Portland to try and find what happened to her. It seems the only way she could have died while using the virtual programs is if someone had tampered with the program.
With this sort of intriguing and unique plot I couldn't help but be so engaged in the book, that I couldn't put it down. While the author goes into detail about what you could see through the virtual reality program, I felt like I too could see what was being described.
Although this is not they typical book I normally find myself picking up, I did greatly enjoy reading it and highly recommend it to anyone interested in action, history, and thrill. I give this book a 5/5 with no complaints on any aspect of the book.… (more)