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Daryl M.

Librarian


Posts by Daryl M.

  • Book covers of favorite books

    My Favorite Books of 2024

    Season’s Readings, everyone! As is generally true, there have been some marvelous books published in 2024, and I’m thrilled to share my favorites with you. I’ve listed these books in alphabetical…

  • Genoveva Dimova and her 2 book covers

    Interview With an Author: Genoveva Dimova

    Genoveva Dimova is a fantasy author and archaeologist. Originally from Bulgaria, she now lives in Scotland with her partner and a small army of houseplants. She believes in writing what you know, so…

  • Michelle Chouinard and her book

    Interview With an Author: Michelle Chouinard

    Michelle Chouinard has written eight previous USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestselling mysteries under a different name. She has a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Stanford University and was…

  • Author Alex Segura and his book Alter Ego

    Interview With an Author: Alex Segura

    Alex Segura is the bestselling and award-winning author of Secret Identity, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller and a New York Times Editor’s Choice and an NPR Best Mystery…

  • Author Marjorie McCown and her latest novel, Star Struck

    Interview With an Author: Marjorie McCown

    Marjorie McCown has spent her entire professional life in the story-telling business, though she started out on the visual side of the craft. She spent more than twenty-five years in Hollywood working…

  • Author Emily C. Hughes and her first book, Horror For Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

    Interview With an Author: Emily C. Hughes

    Emily C. Hughes (she/her) wants to scare you. Formerly the editor of Unbound Worlds and TorNightfire.com, she writes about horror and curates a list of the year's new scary books. You can find her…

  • Author Tim Major and his latest novel, Jekyll & Hyde: Consulting Detectives

    Interview With an Author: Tim Major

    Tim Major is a writer and freelance editor from York, UK. His books include Snakeskins, Hope Island, three Sherlock Holmes novels, short story collection And the House Lights Dim and a monograph about…

  • Author Joe R. Lansdale and his latest short story collection, In the Mad Mountains

    Interview With an Author: Joe R. Lansdale

    Internationally bestselling author Joe R. Lansdale has received the Edgar, Raymond Chandler, Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and Inkpot Awards. His work includes mysteries, Westerns, horror, thrillers…

  • Author Tod Goldberg and his latest anthology, Eight Very Bad Nights

    Interview With an Author: Tod Goldberg

    Tod Goldberg is the New York Times bestselling author of over a dozen books, including the award-winning Gangsterland trilogy and Living Dead Girl, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His…

  • Author M. L. Rio and her first novella, Graveyard Shift

    Interview With an Author: M. L. Rio

    M. L. Rio holds an MA in Shakespeare studies from King’s College London and Shakespeare’s Globe and a PhD in English from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her bestselling first novel If We…


Reviews by Daryl M.

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    The Lost Story

    • By: Shaffer, Meg
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    পনেরো বছর আগে, স্কুল বর্ষের শেষের শিক্ষামূলক ভ্রমণে ওয়েস্ট ভার্জিনিয়ার রেড ক্রো স্টেট ফরেস্টে গিয়ে জেরেমি ও রাল্ফ নিখোঁজ হয়ে যায়। এক মুহূর্তে তারা সেখানে ছিল, আবার পরক্ষণেই উধাও। বনটিতে বারবার তল্লাশি চালানো হয়েছিল, কিন্তু ছেলে দুটির কোনো চিহ্নই আর খুঁজে পাওয়া যায়নি। এবং...
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    Arthur and Teddy are Coming Out

    আর্থার এডওয়ার্ডস তার পুরো জীবন উত্তর ইংল্যান্ডের নর্থব্রিজ নামক ছোট শহরে কাটিয়েছেন। তিনি সেখানেই বড় হয়েছেন। এবং নর্থব্রিজেই তার স্ত্রী ম্যাডেলিনের সাথে তার পরিচয় হয় ও তারা বিবাহবন্ধনে আবদ্ধ হন। নর্থব্রিজেই ম্যাডেলিন ও তিনি তাদের দুই সন্তান এলিজাবেথ ও প্যাট্রিককে বড় করেছেন। বেশিরভাগ ছোট শহরের মতোই, নির্বিশেষে...
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    Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

    • By: Hughes, Emily C.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    হরর। কেউ কেউ এটা ভালোবাসেন! কেউ কেউ ভালোবাসেন না! আর, সাধারণভাবে বলতে গেলে, এই জনরাটি নিয়ে মানুষের তীব্র অনুভূতি থাকে, তারা হয় এক দলে না হয় অন্য দলে পড়েন। কিছুটা পরিহাসের বিষয় হলো, এমন মানুষও আছেন যারা হরর জনরাটিকে 'ভয়' পান। হ্যাঁ, তারা এই জনরাটিকেই ভয় পান...
  • Cover image for Star Struck

    Star Struck

    • By: McCown, Marjorie
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    মার্জরি ম্যাককাউনের 'ফাইনাল কাট'-এর শেষে পাঠকরা যখন জোয়ি জেসাপকে দেখেছিল, ততক্ষণে সে একটি বড় বাজেটের সুপারহিরো সিনেমার সেটে সহকারী পরিচালক কোর্টনি লিসলকে হত্যাকারী খুনির পরিচয় জেনে গিয়েছিল। খুনি যখন তার ওপর হামলা চালানোর চেষ্টা করেছিল, তখন সে নিজের জীবননাশের চেষ্টা থেকে বেঁচে গিয়েছিল...
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    The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

    • By: Clark, P. Djèlí
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    ইভিন একজন পেশাদার ঘাতক। এই কথাটার ওপর 'পেশাদার' শব্দটার ওপর জোর দেওয়া উচিত। সে একজন পুনরুজ্জীবিত ঘাতক, যার স্মৃতি মুছে ফেলা হয়েছে এবং সে সেই ঘাতকদের প্রধানের অধীনে কাজ করে, যিনি তাকে 'জীবনে' দ্বিতীয় সুযোগ করে দিয়েছিলেন। সে দক্ষ, বিচক্ষণ এবং হত্যা করতে ইচ্ছুক (এই পরিভাষাটি...
  • Cover image for A Short Walk Through a Wide World

    A Short Walk Through a Wide World

    • By: Westerbeke, Douglas
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Three sisters gather at what they have decided is a wishing well near their home in Paris. The year is 1885. There are so many terrible things happening in the world that they decide they each will make a wish and sacrifice something important to them by casting it into...
  • Cover image for The Twilight Garden

    The Twilight Garden

    • By: Adams, Sara Nisha
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    There are two residences on Eastbourne Road in Stoke Newington on the outskirts of London. Winston has lived in #79, with his boyfriend Lewis, for several years. Bernice, recently divorced, has just purchased #77 as a new home for herself and her young son, Sebastian. The two houses share a...
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    How to Solve Your Own Murder

    • By: Perrin, Kristen
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Annie’s Great Aunt Frances has always been a presence in Annie’s life. A rather nebulous, undefined presence, but a presence none the less. Great Aunt Frances owns the house in Chelsea where Annie has grown up with her mother. Communication from Great Aunt Frances has always been sporadic at best...
  • Cover image for The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    • By: Khan, Shubnum
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Fifteen-year-old Sana has just moved to Durban, a city on the eastern coast of South Africa, with her father. Her mother, a victim of cancer, died a few years earlier and her father believes the move to the once grand, now dilapidated, estate that is an odd type of apartment...
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    Women of Good Fortune

    Sophie Wan opens her debut novel with this bit of information:“Sheng nu – ‘leftover women’ – unmarried women over the age of twenty-seven. Later adopted by the internet community to refer to often well-educated women who had passed the appropriate age for marriage.”Wan then goes on to introduce readers to...