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Kim Zarins

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Young Adult, Children's

Influences

Geoffrey Chaucer, J. R. R. Tolkien, Susanna Clarke, and many more

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December 2012

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I'm a medievalist at Sacramento State University, and I also teach children's literature. My modernized retelling of the Canterbury Tales is called Sometimes We Tell the Truth. You don't have to know anything about Chaucer to enjoy the story, and if you know the Canterbury Tales, you'll see the novel on a whole other level. I hope you'll like it!

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Average rating: 3.84 · 679 ratings · 166 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Sometimes We Tell the Truth 3.88 avg rating — 603 ratings — published 2016 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Helpful Puppy by Kim Zarins (Goodreads Author), Emily Arnold McCully (Illustrator) 3.47 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Playful Bunny it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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new Chaucer article published

I just published a new online article on Chaucer's Pardoner. If you love Chaucer and/or you wanted to know about some of the research I did when I wrote my character Pard, you might want to check it out. It's free to download, no account required, and open to anyone.

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Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law

by Haben Girma

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What Is a Garden?

by W.S. Merwin

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I'm going to set this one aside for now. While I adored, *ADORED*, Uprooted and Spinning Silver and the Temeraire series, this one just didn't pull me in. It may be Novik is just branching out and addressing a different kind of reader. I can see ...more
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Kim Zarins made a comment on Lara Porte’s status in Sometimes We Tell the Truth " Lara wrote: "I SO want to do that one year. I can’t wait to have you in my class to do a book talk. Maybe a normal year when our semester is not cut f ...more "
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Quotes by Kim Zarins

“We all have the time we need to tell our stories.”
― Kim Zarins, Sometimes We Tell the Truth

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“When people want to love you, let them. When people open a door like that, never close it, not even to hide.”
― Kim Zarins, Sometimes We Tell the Truth

tags: acceptance, inspirational, love, the-truth

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Kim’s Quotes

“Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

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“I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: john-green, tfios, the-fault-in-our-stars

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“I opened my mouth to reply, but then closed it again. Talking to Mom was a bit like trying to fold a fitted sheet: no matter how hard you try, it always ends up a lumpy, crooked mess. So why even bother? (Page 120)”
― Marci Lyn Curtis, The One Thing

tags: relationships-and-family

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