Kathys Recollections (Surviving the Fog Book 2)

Surviving the Fog Series

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Desi and Erin were really pis… angry, because they were in the shower at the time. My Dad taught me that.

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They just had to attach the knot to a piece of wood and screw the wood to the surrounding slats. I want to be back home, listening to my brother and sister fight over what cartoon to watch. I want to hear my mother scolding my father for caressing her in the kitchen instead of waiting until they were in their bedroom. More food would be nice. Some adults that were kind to us instead of killing us would be great. At the moment, I would really like to know where the Chief is, and if he and the Spears have rescued Jackie and Maria.

I feel so ashamed when that happens.

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And why are those same people interested in fellow newcomer Philip Hansen? The Great Yearning is not a how-to but a how-done, a compilation of letters, blog posts, and journal entries Pat Bertram wrote while struggling to survive her first year of grief. This is a board book but it is written for beginning readers, not toddlers. The illustrations are campy pen drawings with bright solid colours. Every second page the author describes how her cat hides in boxes. The first story, One Sweet Treat, falls into the trap of passive writing. Passive verb tense slows down the story and creates distance between the text and the reader.

The gist of the first story is that Katie eats all the cupcakes when Cook is out of the room and makes herself sick. Cook makes her bake new ones. The second story, Beatrice the Ballerina, is even less exciting. I did not read any more stories. The illustrations are full-page pastel drawings with great detail. There is an old-fashioned touch to them, but this suits the stories.

The first two stories were flat and predictable. The first two illustrations are three-dimensional digital renditions of an adorable puppy. Then we have a cartoon illustration, a drawing colored in shades of pink. The rest of the book is three-dimensional digital illustrations similar to the first ones of the puppy. Why the drawing of a woman and her poodle, in a completely different style, was inserted in the middle is a mystery to me. These are obviously illustrations taken from a site and not made specifically for the book.

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Most illustrations were quite bare. As a picture book, the text is far, far too wordy. It may have suited a magazine. Much of the text is unnecessary and should be weeded out. The author would do well to research appropriate word counts for picture books. One place to cut is unnecessary adverbs and explanations. Writers need to limit, possibly even completely eliminate, adverbs and let the verbs speak for themselves. The story itself is predictable and needs more suspense and originality.

As well, the last two or three pages could be cut completely. We only need one instance of the puppy and Alex being happy together to understand that this turned into a wonderful Christmas after all. Surviving the Fog was an unusual book. The reader is inadvertently led to believe the story will be about the struggle against fog monsters but they play a miniscule part in the plot.

In fact, I thought a more mundane method of disaster might have set the more appropriate tone for the rest of the story. This is a post apocalypse novel featuring a summer camp of young people as survivors. It was the opposite of Lord of the Pigs. Although there were evil villains, they came from outside the camp. It was an interesting novel more than suspenseful. With a different voice, this story could have been as suspenseful as The Maze. Stan Morris makes us care deeply for the key teenagers and their patchwork society.

If world leaders were this in tune with the needs of their people, there would be no wars or rebellions. The narrator, Kathy, develops from a frightened, helpless girl into a decisive mother figure.

The characters were varied and complex. This novel reminded me of pioneer stories where good people struggle against starvation, attacks, freezing temperatures, and the unknown. Stan Morris clearly explained how the children, with the help of a young man named Hector and later other adults, created a habitat in which they could survive the long, icy winters. Either intense research or a wide knowledge base was necessary to create these authentic scenes.

While these descriptions made the story believable, at times they were more detailed than necessary. Ingenuity, hard work, commitment, and amazing good luck came together in the right combination for survival. As expected, the teenagers quickly paired off. Sexuality and sexual intercourse were dominant themes throughout the book, although there were no explicit descriptions. This is entirely believable for a group of teenagers left without adult supervision. I really enjoyed reading a post-apocalypse book that focused on the positive.

Even though there were the usual horrors, thievery, violence, kidnapping, rape, etc. Instead of descending into barbarism, the young people rose to the challenge and shone. The major problem is the unnecessary wordiness. Most publishers prefer picture books to be under words. After reading this story, I think it would truly sparkle at to words. Here is a super quick first edit eliminating unnecessary words and phrases. Eight-year-old cousins Jamie and Emily were excited. They were spending a few days with their Grandpa.

The old man was fun to be with and always took them on an adventure. What could it be?

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They could not imagine. Although he was their grandfather, they did not call him Grandpa or even Poppy. Stan Morris was born in Linwood, California, to religious fundamentalist parents. He grew up in Norwalk, California and Concord, California, where he discovered the amazing world of hard science fiction and became influenced by conservative atheism and liberal humanitarianism. He moved to New Mexico in , and finally to Maui, Hawaii in He worked a variety of jobs at oil and gas companies, driving situations, and computer tech operations.

He retired in His first book, "Surviving the Fog," was published in He lives on a farm and grows coffee, avocados, tangerines, peaches, plumeria, a variety of vegetables and herbs, and an incredible amount of weeds.

He is married to Rene Yamafuji. They have two sons. He is presently working on a scifi series about a solar system with one inhabited planet Marl and thousands of inhabited asteroids the Hoop. Are you an author? Help us improve our Author Pages by updating your bibliography and submitting a new or current image and biography. Learn more at Author Central. Howard the Red is now available at Amazon. It's been three years since I published Kathy's Recollections, a long time between books in this series. Next up is Douglas Lives. Howard the Red is a more mature book with more mature themes.

It explores new characters and one old character, Pete. In this book we learn how Pete was critical to Mike becoming "Chief.

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I've experienced some of the worst health in recent years, so I'm very behind. Here is a piece from Sasha the Scarred. The narrator is Kim, a Korean boy, and it begins about the same time Surviving the Fog begins. They made more noise than buckets. First of all, I'm 63 years old. You will understand the relevance.

Last year I connected with a cousin I had not seen since the 's. In a conversation, he mentioned that one of the things he remembered about me was that, when we were in our teens and with another cousin, I admonished that cousin for using racially disparaging language.

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