Official Review: Corey Tells a Story! by Meg Kimball

[bookowlie]

Plot sounds great. Can't imagine what I would've done if I was stuck inside a school building because of a snow storm, or something else, like a... darn, I'm missing the word here. It's on my tongue. I can just taste it. You know, that word when there's a viral breakout, and the military and scientists lock everything down. Man, what is it? Anywoo, good job bookowlie. I already have a good idea of what the book is about, and if I know zeldas_lullaby/Meg Kimball, than of course, this book is going to be a fun read.

Thanks Leon. Are you thinking of a quarantine?

Your example of a viral breakout where the military and scientists do a lockdown....well, that sounds like a great premise for a book. Start writing!

[Cee-Jay Aurinko]

@ bookowlie

Yessss! Quarantine. Where did that word go? I'm too young for memory loss.

[bookowlie]

@ bookowlie

Yessss! Quarantine. Where did that word go? I'm too young for memory loss.

Ha ha ha. It took me a while to think of it. I first kept thinking of "lockdown", which is what you actually said.
I think the author did a good job plotting out the stuck in the school storyline. Instead of having all the students and faculty become stuck at school, she had only the four friends, one teacher, and an unexpected guest stuck. This way it became a more intimate group for conversations and other occurrences.

[Cee-Jay Aurinko]

@ bookowlie

It's particularly this "mystery guest" that makes this plot sound so interesting.

[bookowlie]

@ bookowlie

It's particularly this "mystery guest" that makes this plot sound so interesting.

The word "guest" might not have been the best way to describe this person, but their appearance is certainly unexpected.

[zeldas_lullaby]

Leon, I forget words all the time!! I even get stuck halfway through a sentence and then just pause. (When I'm talking, not when I'm writing.) It's the beginning of the end, I'm sure of it!

Thanks for your kind comments! I'm trying to remember who the mystery guest was... Mork from Ork? (No, I know who you're referring to, BookOwlie.)

Leon, I agree that you should write about that! You should take that premise and run with it!

[Cee-Jay Aurinko]

@ zeldas-lullaby

I think some of the cables that connect my voice to brain might be trippy. Need a voicetricion, and fast. That's why I can never do radio. Ah, well, God blessed me with talking fingers anyway.

[zeldas_lullaby]

@ zeldas-lullaby

I think some of the cables that connect my voice to brain might be trippy. Need a voicetricion, and fast. That's why I can never do radio. Ah, well, God blessed me with talking fingers anyway.

Same here, I have the fingers. In person, I'm an idiotic, inarticulate disaster. I went wall climbing yesterday, and I got stuck at about fifteen feet. After I was dangling for maybe five minutes, a very handsome man came to my rescue and guided me down the wall. He explained to me how I should use chalk on my hands for traction, since climbing tends to make a person sweat. The only response I could come up with was, "For the record, I am a sweaty person. I sweat all the time."

Then he asked me if I come here often. And I said, "I live in the neighborhood, so this place is really convenient. I try to come all the time, since I live so close. It's very convenient. Being in my neighborhood."

Then he told me he lives out of town, in Frankfort, and they don't have wall climbing there. I said, "Yeah, really? That's such a small town, they really don't have much of anything. I've been to Frankfort. It's like, middle of nowhere USA."

Then we ended the conversation and I fled to the nearest wall.

A normal person would have died of humiliation, but I laugh in the face of humiliation. HA HA HA HA HA.

Anyway, the good news is that I'm able to capture that kind of abject helplessness in my books about Corey and Andi.

[bookowlie]

@ zeldas-lullaby

I think some of the cables that connect my voice to brain might be trippy. Need a voicetricion, and fast. That's why I can never do radio. Ah, well, God blessed me with talking fingers anyway.

Same here, I have the fingers. In person, I'm an idiotic, inarticulate disaster. I went wall climbing yesterday, and I got stuck at about fifteen feet. After I was dangling for maybe five minutes, a very handsome man came to my rescue and guided me down the wall. He explained to me how I should use chalk on my hands for traction, since climbing tends to make a person sweat. The only response I could come up with was, "For the record, I am a sweaty person. I sweat all the time."

Then he asked me if I come here often. And I said, "I live in the neighborhood, so this place is really convenient. I try to come all the time, since I live so close. It's very convenient. Being in my neighborhood."

Then he told me he lives out of town, in Frankfort, and they don't have wall climbing there. I said, "Yeah, really? That's such a small town, they really don't have much of anything. I've been to Frankfort. It's like, middle of nowhere USA."

Then we ended the conversation and I fled to the nearest wall.

A normal person would have died of humiliation, but I laugh in the face of humiliation. HA HA HA HA HA.

Anyway, the good news is that I'm able to capture that kind of abject helplessness in my books about Corey and Andi.

Oh my, that Frankfort conversation is the funniest thing I have heard all week.

On a serious note, It's great that you are able to use this in your writing.

[zeldas_lullaby]

Thanks. At least it's good for something, right?

[bookowlie]

"Abject helplessness" - great phrase!

The mystery guest appearance fit seamlessly into the main plot.

[Momlovesbooks]

Great review! This seems like a book my tween would enjoy. I'll have to read it myself and see what I think.

[bookowlie]

Great review! This seems like a book my tween would enjoy. I'll have to read it myself and see what I think.

Thanks! I think you and your tween would both enjoy this book.

[BookInspired]

Entertaining review! A wonderful book reviewer is essential for any author and this reviewer does not disappoint! I will recommend this book to my reading club!

[zeldas_lullaby]

Welcome to the forum, BookInspired! Heck yeah, BookOwlie is the awesomest reviewer ever!