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Daryl M.

Librarian


Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Douglas Westerbeke and his latest book, A Short Walk Through a Wide World

    Entrevista con un autor: Douglas Westerbek

    Douglas Westerbeke es un bibliotecario que reside en Ohio y trabaja en una de las bibliotecas más grandes de Estados Unidos. Durante la última década, formó parte del jurado local del Premio Literario…

  • Author Christina Estes and her debut novel, Off the Air

    Entrevista con una autora: Christina Estes

    Christina Estes es una reportera galardonada que ha dedicado más de 20 años a cubrir temas de delincuencia, políticas públicas y economía en Phoenix, Arizona. Sus reportajes se han escuchado en la…

  • Author Jacqueline Holland and her latest novel, The Mystery Writer

    Entrevista con una autora: Sulari Gentill

    Tras dedicarse a estudiar astrofísica, graduarse en Derecho y abandonar su carrera legal para escribir libros, Sulari Gentill cultiva trufas negras francesas en su granja, en las faldas de las…

  • Author Justinian Huang and his debut novel, The Emperor and the Endless Palace

    Entrevista con un autor: Justiniano Huang

    Hijo de inmigrantes en Monterey Park, California, Justinian Huang estudió inglés en Pomona College y guionismo en la Universidad de Oxford. Actualmente reside en Los Ángeles con Swagger, un perro…

  • Author Sophie Wan and her debut novel, Women of Good Fortune

    Entrevista con una autora: Sophie Wan

    Sophie Wan es originaria del Área de la Bahía y ahora lucha contra los inviernos en Filadelfia. Se graduó de la Universidad de California en Berkeley y pasa demasiado tiempo redactando correos…

  • Author Shubnum Khan and her debut novel, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    Entrevista con un autor: Shubnum Khan

    Shubnum Khan es una autora y artista sudafricana. Sus escritos han aparecido en The New York Times; McSweeney's Quarterly; HuffPost; O, The Oprah Magazine; The Sunday Times (Londres); Marie Claire; y…

  • Author Izzy Wasserstein and her debut novel, These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart

    Entrevista con un autor: Izzy Wasserstein

    Izzy Wasserstein es una mujer trans queer que enseña escritura y literatura. Nació y creció en Kansas y obtuvo su Maestría en Bellas Artes en Escritura Creativa por la Universidad de Nuevo México. Es…

  • Author Rebecca Serle and her latest novel, Expiration Dates

    Entrevista con una autora: Rebecca Serle

    Rebecca Serle es la autora superventas del New York Times de Un verano italiano, En cinco años, La lista de la cena y las novelas juveniles Al filo de la caída y Cuando eras mía. Serle también…

  • Author: Yangsze Choo

    Entrevista con un autor: Yangsze Choo

    Yangsze Choo es la autora superventas del New York Times de La Novia Fantasma (ahora una serie original de Netflix) y El Tigre de la Noche, una de las favoritas del Club de Lectura de Reese's y una de…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for A Master of Djinn

    A Master of Djinn

    • By: Clark, P. Djèli
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In Cairo in the 1870’s, an inventor and investigator of mysticism named al-Jahiz made a literal breakthrough unlike any other. He pierced the boundaries between our world and other worlds, allowing magic to bleed into ours. In the process, al-Jahiz was lost to another dimension before the rupture between worlds...
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    The Dictionary of Lost Words

    • By: Williams, Pip
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    According to their website, the Oxford English Dictionary “is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.” Serially published in portions, or fascicles, the first fascicle, covering “A to...
  • Cover image for Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder

    Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder

    • By: Willberg, T. A.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Imagine the following:  A chilling murder, a secret detective agency with offices located in a myriad of tunnels located beneath London, and a young apprentice determined to find the killer in order to clear one of her closest friends of the murder. In her debut novel, which is the beginning...
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    The Narrowboat Summer

    • By: Youngson, Anne
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Eve has spent the last 30 years working for an engineering/manufacturing company managing various projects and climbing the corporate ladder. Suddenly, she has been “released” from her position. She is a corporate scapegoat for systemic problems within her company and, as the only woman at her management level, the seemingly...
  • Cover image for Good Neighbors: A Novel

    Good Neighbors: A Novel

    • By: Langan, Sarah
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    The first season of The Twilight Zone in 1960 included an episode written by show creator Rod Serling entitled “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.” Serling presented a block of homes, filled with “typical” American families, on a summer evening. There is a bright flash of light, whose origin...
  • Cover image for N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law

    N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law

    • By: Armour, Jody David
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Jody Armour is the Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law at the University of Southern California. He studies issues of race and legal decision-making as well as torts and tort reform movements. He also studies and teaches on the intersections of language, the law and ethics. His latest book directly...
  • Cover image for The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne

    The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne

    The year is 1704 and Lady Cecily Kay has returned to London from her husband’s posting as a consul in Smyrna. Upon learning of her imminent return to the British Isles, Cecily sent a letter to Sir Barnaby Mayne, a renowned collector in London with one of the most expansive...
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    Hella

    • By: Gerrold, David, 1944-
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    David Gerrold is speculative fiction royalty. His career spans six decades, over which he has won the Hugo and the Nebula awards. He has written more than 50 novels, worked on numerous television series and created cultural touchstones like tribbles (from Star Trek) and the Sleestak (from The Land of...
  • Cover image for The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

    The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

    • By: Zapata, Michael
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    A pirate, a refugee, two pre-teen boys in love with speculative fiction stories, and two adult men who are friends and are each searching for what seems to be missing in their lives. Over the course of nearly a century, these disparate individuals will orbit the missing manuscript of a...