professional volleyball player (in Italy), unsuccessful country-western singer/songwriter, import store owner, and assistant guru in a small, benign spiritual organization. Before bowing to the need for higher education, a much younger Darrow ran a punch press in a sheetmetal factory, drove a taxi, worked as a night janitor, shoveled asphalt on a road crew, and installed wood flooring. He missed being blown up by Mt. St. Helens by ten minutes, survived the 1985 Mexico City earthquake (8 on the Richter scale), and (so far) has successfully weathered his own internal disasters.
His latest book, Prodigy Quest, is a YA speculative novel.
At Tor.com he tagged six notable books that "focus on transformation, although they utilize the vehicle of reincarnation in different ways: time travel, galactic conflict, Arthurian legend, a secret society, finishing the reincarnation cycle, demonology, and a love story." One title on the list:
Reincarnation Blues by Michael PooreRead about another entry on the list.
Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore takes a different approach to the title theme. Milo is living his 9,996th lifetime and he has to get it right by 10,000 or he’s a goner. In Poore’s universe, individual souls join the cosmic soul at that point or else face oblivion.This premise is complicated by the protagonist’s multi-lifetime love for Death, as embodied by “Suzie”.
Each lifetime offers Milo opportunities to learn about what’s beyond ordinary human understanding and put together the pieces of the cosmic puzzle, which might sound overly serious, but isn’t. Poore’s style is quirky, unpredictable, and imaginative—not to mention heartfelt. Exploring love in a deep way, the author adds an element that all readers can relate to. We’re along for the wild ride with Milo, and most of us are likely to be enriched by the experience.
My Book, The Movie: Reincarnation Blues.
The Page 69 Test: Reincarnation Blues.
--Marshal Zeringue
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