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Daryl M.

Librarian


Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Peter Swanson and his latest novel, Nine Lives

    Interview With an Author: Peter Swanson

    Peter Swanson is the New York Times bestselling author of eight novels, including The Kind Worth Killing, winner of the New England Society Book Award, and finalist for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel…

  • Author Kate Moore and her first novel, Only A Monster

    Interview With an Author: Vanessa Len

    Vanessa Len is an Australian author of Chinese-Malaysian and Maltese heritage. An educational editor, she has worked on everything from language learning programs to STEM resources, to professional…

  • Author Edward Ashton and his latest novel, Mickey7

    Interview With an Author: Edward Ashton

    Edward Ashton is the author of the novels Three Days in April and The End of Ordinary, as well as of short stories which have appeared in venues ranging from the newsletter of an Italian sausage…

  • Author Sequoia Nagamatsu and his debut novel, How High We Go in the Dark

    Interview With an Author: Sequoia Nagamatsu

    Sequoia Nagamatsu is a Japanese-American writer and managing editor of Psychopomp Magazine, an online quarterly dedicated to innovative prose. Originally from Hawaii and the San Francisco Bay Area, he…

  • Author Alex Segura and his latest novel, Secret Identity

    Interview With an Author: Alex Segura

    Alex Segura is the author of Star Wars Poe Dameron: Free Fall and the acclaimed Pete Fernandez Mystery series. He has also written a number of comic books, most notably the superhero noir The Black…

  • Author Freya Marske and her debut novel, A Marvellous Light

    Interview With an Author: Freya Marske

    Freya Marske is one of the co-hosts of Be the Serpent, a Hugo Award-nominated podcast about SFF, fandom, and literary tropes, and her work has sold to Analog and been shortlisted for Best Fantasy…

  • Author Andrea Hairston and her latest novel, Redwood and Wildfire

    Interview With an Author: Andrea Hairston

    Andrea Hairston is a novelist, essayist, playwright, and the Artistic Director of Chrysalis Theatre. She is the author of Mindscape, shortlisted for the Phillip K. Dick and Otherwise awards, and…

  • Journalist and editor, Eliza Reid and her first book, Secrets of the Sprakkar

    Interview With an Author: Eliza Reid

    Eliza Reid is a journalist, editor, and co-founder of the annual Iceland Writers Retreat. Eliza grew up on a hobby farm near Ottawa, Canada, and moved to Iceland in 2003, five years after winning a…

  • Author Eva Jurczyk and her first novel, The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

    Interview With an Author: Eva Jurczyk

    Eva Jurczyk is a writer and librarian living in Toronto. She has written for Jezebel, The Awl, The Rumpus, and Publishers Weekly. The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections is her first…

  • Author Marie Rutkoski and her first novel, Real Easy

    Interview With an Author: Marie Rutkoski

    Born in Illinois, Marie Rutkoski is a graduate of the University of Iowa and Harvard University. She is a professor of English literature at Brooklyn College and a New York Times bestselling author of…


Reviews by Daryl M.

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    Brokeula

    • By: Seidlinger, Michael J.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.

    James  Sugre is a vampire. He has lived for centuries, but has made some questionable choices. Bad choices, when it comes to investments. Now, he is broke. He has no money and is deep in debt. He can’t even afford his own reflection (they are available for a fee from Vampire Nation, an international conglomerate that both governs and provides for the world’s vampire population).

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    Mazywood

    • By: Due, Tananarive
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.

    Wishes. We all make them, either silently to ourselves or possibly as a breathless whisper as we drop a coin in a fountain. The reason behind them can range from whimsical to deadly serious. And, in the "real world," they are, to quote Douglas Adams, "mostly harmless." In the world of fiction, however, wishes are entirely different. 

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    Another Fine Mess

    تأسست دار جنازات إيفانز منذ زمنٍ يُقارب عمر بلدة جنوب شرق تكساس التي تقع فيها. وهي مؤسسة عائلية تُدار وتُورث عبر الأجيال، من خلال نساء عائلة إيفانز. ومن بينهن دوسي، ربة الأسرة الحالية، وهي ابنة باي، الذي اختفى في ظروف غامضة قبل ثمانية عشر عامًا...
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    Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

    • By: Schwab, Victoria
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    في عام ٢٠٢٠، عرّفت في. إي. شواب القراء على آدي لارو، الشابة التي تعقد صفقةً مشؤومةً لتجنب زواجٍ غير مرغوب فيه في فرنسا مطلع القرن الثامن عشر. في رواية "الحياة الخفية لآدي لارو"، تتابع شواب آدي عبر القرون، حيث تُشكّل آدي، بذكائها وقوة إرادتها،...
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    Good Dirt

    • By: Wilkerson, Charmaine
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    عندما كانت إيبوني "إيبي" فريمان في العاشرة من عمرها، كانت الشاهدة الوحيدة على عملية سطو فاشلة على منزلها، أسفرت عن مقتل شقيقها باز، البالغ من العمر خمسة عشر عامًا، رميًا بالرصاص، وتدمير إرث عائلي لا يُقدّر بثمن. وكون إيبي ابنة عائلة سوداء مرموقة...
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    But Not Too Bold

    تغيرت حياة داليا في صباح اليوم الذي عثرت فيه الخادمة على رسالة مطبوعة كُتب عليها: "استأجروا حارسًا جديدًا للمفاتيح؛ عاجل؛ قبل الفجر". كان جميع سكان منزل كابريشوس يعرفون معنى الرسالة ومن كتبها. كاتبتها هي سيدة منزل كابريشوس، السيدة أناتيما، وهي عنكبوت عملاقة نصف بشرية...
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    The Murder of Mr. Ma

    • By: Nee, John Shen Yen, Rozan, SJ
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    في لندن عام ١٩٢٤، يُستدعى لاو شي، الأكاديمي الشاب الخجول، إلى منزل عالم الرياضيات برتراند راسل. عند وصوله، يشرح راسل أن صديقه وزميله، القاضي دي رن جي، قد اعتُقل خطأً مع مجموعة من المحرضين الصينيين. يخشى راسل أن تُكشف هوية دي...