Author: Chris Poore

by John Green It’s the classic boy meets girl, boy falls for girl, boy loses girl story that we’ve all come to love, and it’s easy to see why Looking for Alaska has become a modern-day YA classic. It’s a found family of teenage misfits who quickly come to rely on one another on their…

by Willa Cather I avoided Willa Cather for the better part of my first 54 years, although in hindsight, I’m not sure why. I assumed Cather belonged to the high-minded and academic world of literature. I spent of good chunk of college pursuing literature and found it wasn’t for me. I prefer a good story,…

by Jonathan Evison Mike Muñoz knows what he wants, but he has absolutely no idea how to get it. He wants to understand money, but he doesn’t know how to make it or care about being rich. He wants to understand society, but he doesn’t care about rising up or fitting in. And he wants…

by Maria Vale When Molly Molloy crawled under the tires and Death laid next to her and cupped her cheek, my heart stopped. I saw it coming, sort of. But not like that. And certainly not halfway through the book. So all of my assumptions about what the second half of the book would be…

by Beth Hope Healing Notes, a debut novel by Beth Hope, grabbed me from the very start, and I devoured the nearly 400 pages over a long weekend, which is rare for me. I was immediately taken by Liam and Zoe and just had to know … will they or won’t they? Zoe and Liam…

by Emersyn Park How much destruction can one person cause? If that person is a narcissist with deviant sexual tendencies who believes everything on earth is created for their own pleasure, then the answer is unlimited destruction. That is the story of Seeds of His Evil, Emersyn Park’s third installment in the “Normal Scandal Series.”…

The Fire Inside: A Companion for the Creative Life by Lucy Adkins, Becky Breed Have you ever had something come into your life at exactly the right moment? When a change was desperately needed, there was that email, or that phone call, or that random book in the mail. That was The Fire Inside: A…

by Sean Doolittle I absolutely adore Sean’s books. They move at a frenetic pace, keep you on the edge of your seat at all times, and leave you guessing how it’s going to end up until the very last page. The Cleanup fits nicely in that mold. It grabbed me with the first page, and…

by Jason Pargin What the hell did I just read? If you told me Jason Pargin wrote John Dies at the End during a 72-hour writing binge of acid dropped on top of a bag of mushrooms chased down by the worm from the bottom of a tequila bottle, it wouldn’t surprise me in the…

by Theodore Wheeler I had the pleasure to meet Theodore Wheeler on a few occasions recently and to hear him talk about his most recent book: The War Begins in Paris. The story of two women who meet in Paris in the late 1930s and become inextricably linked for the duration of World War II.…