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Daryl M.

Librarian


Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Kacen Callender and their latest novel, Infinity Alchemist

    Entrevista con un autor: Kacen Callender

    Kacen Callender es el autor más vendido y galardonado de múltiples novelas para niños, adolescentes y adultos, incluyendo la ganadora del Premio Stonewall Honor Book, Felix Ever After, y la ganadora…

  • Author Gareth Brown and his debut novel, The Book of Doors

    Entrevista con un autor: Gareth Brown

    Gareth Brown quiso ser escritor desde muy joven y terminó su primera novela siendo adolescente. Durante los últimos veinte años, ha trabajado en la Administración Pública del Reino Unido y en el…

  • Author Douglas Preston and his latest novel, Fourteen Days

    Entrevista con un autor: Douglas Preston

    Douglas Preston es autor de treinta y nueve libros de ficción y no ficción, de los cuales treinta y dos han sido best-sellers del New York Times. Es coautor, junto con Lincoln Child, de la serie de…

  • Author Emily Ruth Verona and her debut novel, Midnight on Beacon Street

    Entrevista con una autora: Emily Ruth Verona

    Emily Ruth Verona se licenció en Escritura Creativa y Estudios Cinematográficos en la Universidad Estatal de Nueva York en Purchase. En 2014, ganó el Premio Literario Pinch en Ficción. Es nominada al…

  • Book cover of Theda Bara: Her Career, Life and Legend by Rob Liebman

    Entrevista con un autor: Roy Liebman

    Roy Liebman ha tenido una larga trayectoria bibliotecaria, comenzando en las Bibliotecas Públicas de Brooklyn y Nueva York. Fue jefe de departamento en las bibliotecas del Instituto Tecnológico de…

  • Author Aimee Pokwatka and her latest novel, The Parliament

    Entrevista con una autora: Aimee Pokwatka

    Aimee Pokwatka creció en Wheeling, Virginia Occidental. Estudió antropología en la Universidad de Carolina del Norte en Greensboro y obtuvo su maestría en escritura creativa en la Universidad de…

  • Author Jess Armstrong and her debut novel, The Curse of Penryth Hall

    Entrevista con un autor: Jess Armstrong

    La primera novela de Jess Armstrong, La maldición de Penryth Hall, ganó el Concurso de Primera Novela Policial de Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America. Tiene una maestría en Historia de Estados…

  • Author James Patterson and his latest novel, Holmes, Marple & Poe

    Entrevista con un autor: James Patterson

    James Patterson es el autor más vendido del mundo. Entre sus creaciones se encuentran Alex Cross, el Club de Mujeres Asesinas, Michael Bennett y Maximum Ride. Sus obras de no ficción número uno en…

  • Author Tobias Buckell and his latest novel, A Stranger in the Citadel

    Entrevista con un autor: Tobias S. Buckell

    Calificado como "violento, poético y de lectura compulsiva" por Maclean's, el autor de ciencia ficción Tobias S. Buckell es un escritor superventas del New York Times y ganador del Premio Mundial de…

  • Author Emily Critchley and her debut novel, One Puzzling Afternoon

    Entrevista con una autora: Emily Critchley

    Emily Critchley ha vivido en Essex, Brighton y Londres, y ahora reside en Hertfordshire, donde trabaja como bibliotecaria. Tiene una licenciatura con honores en Escritura Creativa por la Universidad…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for Secret Identity

    Secret Identity

    • By: Segura, Alex
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In 1975, the comic book industry is struggling. It has survived, mostly, Frederic Wertham’s criticisms and claims regarding a causal relationship between reading comics and becoming a juvenile delinquent in Seduction of the Innocent. But there have been casualties. Readership is down. Publishers are closing. Writers and artists are left...
  • The City We Became

    The City We Became

    • By: N. K. Jemisin
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    N.K. Jemisin is a multiple award-winning, speculative fiction writer. Currently, she resides in Brooklyn, New York and, as evidenced by her novel, The City We Became, she LOVES the “Big Apple”.Every century or so, a city will “manifest”, it becomes a living thing, an entity of its own. This has...
  • Cover image for Redwood and Wildfire

    Redwood and Wildfire

    • By: Hairston, Andrea
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Redwood Phipps is an African-American girl. Aidan Wildfire Cooper is a Seminole Irish young man. The two are brought together by a hateful act of racial violence, which affects both of them for the remainder of their lives. But both are determined to keep the event from defining them. In...
  • Cover image for Real Easy

    Real Easy

    • By: Rutkoski, Marie
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    One woman murdered. Another woman missing. A police detective traumatized by her recent past. An unidentified killer. Was this their first victim or the latest in a series of murders? Will they strike again? If so, when?In Real Easy, Marie Rutkoski, who has been known until now for her outstanding...
  • Cover image for The Mary Shelley Club

    The Mary Shelley Club

    • By: Moldavsky, Goldy
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Last year, Rachel Chavez survived a home invasion. In an attempt to provide her with a new start, her mother, who teaches at Manchester Prep, an affluent Manhattan high school, moves them from their Long Island house to a Brooklyn apartment and enrolls Rachel at Manchester Prep.Since the attack, Rachel...
  • Cover image for Under the Whispering Door

    Under the Whispering Door

    Wallace Price is a successful, driven attorney, and a founding partner of a powerful law firm. He is a person of privilege with everything he wants or needs, and then suddenly, he isn’t. Wallace dies unexpectedly. He was not particularly old and was in fairly good health, although his heart...
  • Cover image for A Quilt for David

    A Quilt for David

    • By: Reigns, Steven
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    On September 3, 1990, Dr. David Acer, a dentist who worked in Jensen Beach, Florida, died from complications from AIDS. Four days after his death, Kimberly Bergalis, a young woman who was also HIV+, accused Dr. Acer of infecting her with the AIDS virus during a recent visit to his...
  • Cover image for Out of body

    Out of Body

    • By: Ford, Jeffrey, 1955-
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    A small-town librarian, a senseless killing and a centuries-old horror have been preying on a community for over a hundred years. These are the building blocks used by Jeffrey Ford as a foundation for his chilling horror novella Out of Body.On his way to work as the librarian at his...