Bookish Encounters

For October, we will be reading Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert.

Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. After almost—but not quite—dying, she’s come up with six directives to help her “Get a Life”, and she’s already completed the first: finally moving out of her glamourous family’s mansion. The next items?

• Enjoy a drunken night out.
• Ride a motorcycle.
• Go camping.
• Have meaningless but thoroughly enjoyable sex.
• Travel the world with nothing but hand luggage.
• And... do something bad.

But it’s not easy being bad, even when you’ve written step-by-step guidelines on how to do it correctly. What Chloe needs is a teacher, and she knows just the man for the job.

Redford ‘Red’ Morgan is a handyman with tattoos, a motorcycle, and more sex appeal than ten-thousand Hollywood heartthrobs. He’s also an artist who paints at night and hides his work in the light of day, which Chloe knows because she spies on him occasionally. Just the teeniest, tiniest bit.

But when she enlists Red in her mission to rebel, she learns things about him that no spy session could teach her. Like why he clearly resents Chloe’s wealthy background. And why he never shows his art to anyone. And what really lies beneath his rough exterior…

The book is available in many forms from Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062941208?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tpbk_0&storeType=ebooks

The San Diego city library has many copies:
https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1252080

It is on the shelves at Meet Cute:
https://meetcutebookshop.com/item/kQHiZI37AAvuA85Aqyjlxw

The North Park Book Fair is back!

The Real North Park Book Fair Returns!
📚✨ Saturday, October 18, 2025
🕙 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
📍 North Park Way (between Granada Ave & Ray St), San Diego, CA
Join us in the heart of North Park for the return of the North Park Book Fair—a vibrant open-air celebration of all things literary! Featuring a curated lineup of booksellers, local authors, small presses, artists, zinemakers, and bookish creators, this event brings together readers, writers, and creatives for a full day of community and discovery.
✨ Highlights include:
– Over 100 vendors
– Costume Contests & live poetry
– Hands-on bookish activities & installations
– Trick-or-treating for kids
– Food & drinks from local vendors
– Free & family-friendly!

This is a low-host event. I will be there as a will a few others. If you want to meet up for lunch, let me know and I will organize something.

Danielle will be in town and we are going to attend this signing from Serra Swift for her book Kill the Beast. Please join us for dinner before the signing. If you don't want to attend the signing but want to hang out with Danielle, please still join us. We will meet at a restaurant in the same shopping complex as MG which will be determined later once we know how many people are coming and where Danielle wants to eat.

Hope to see you there!