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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author JJA Harwood and her debut novel, The Shadow in the Glass

    Entrevista con un autor: JJA Harwood

    JJA Harwood es autora, editora y bloguera. Creció en Norfolk, estudió Historia en la Universidad de Warwick y finalmente se mudó a Londres, lo cual sigue siendo un poco impactante para alguien…

  • Author Ryan La Sala and his latest novel, Be Dazzled

    Entrevista con un autor: Ryan La Sala

    Ryan La Sala creció en Connecticut, pero solo físicamente. Mentalmente, pasó la mayor parte de su infancia en los mundos de Sailor Moon y Xena: La Princesa Guerrera, lo que quizás explique todos sus…

  • Author Kathryn Harkup and her latest book, Vampirology

    Entrevista con una autora: Dra. Kathryn Harkup

    Kathryn Harkup es química y escritora. Kathryn completó un doctorado sobre sus sustancias químicas favoritas, las fosfinas, y continuó su investigación postdoctoral antes de darse cuenta de que hablar…

  • Author P. Djeli Clark and his novel, A Master of Djinn

    Entrevista con un autor: P. Djeli Clark

    Nacido en Nueva York y criado principalmente en Houston, P. Djeli Clark pasó sus primeros años de vida en Trinidad y Tobago, la patria de sus padres. Finalista de los Premios Hugo y Sturgeon, es autor…

  • Author Emiko Jean and her latest novel, Tokyo Ever After

    Entrevista con una autora: Emiko Jean

    Emiko Jean es la autora de Empress of All Seasons y We'll Never Be Apart. Vive en Washington con su esposo y dos gemelos rebeldes. Su última novela es Tokyo Ever After y recientemente habló sobre ella…

  • Author Susan Penner and her first novel, The Lost Apothecary

    Entrevista con una autora: Sarah Penner

    Sarah Penner trabaja a tiempo completo en finanzas y es miembro de la Sociedad de Novela Histórica y de la Asociación de Escritoras de Ficción. Vive con su esposo en St. Petersburg, Florida, con su…

  • Author Pip Williams and her first novel, The Dictionary of Lost Words

    Entrevista con un autor: Pip Williams

    Pip Williams nació en Londres, creció en Sídney y ahora reside en las colinas de Adelaida, Australia. Es autora de "Un verano italiano", una autobiografía sobre los viajes de su familia en busca de la…

  • Author Joshilyn Jackson and her latest novel, Mother May I

    Entrevista con un autor: Joshilyn Jackson

    Joshilyn Jackson es autora de nueve novelas superventas del New York Times, entre ellas "Dioses en Alabama" y "Casi Hermanas". Sus libros se han traducido a una docena de idiomas. Ex actriz, Jackson…


Reviews by Daryl M.

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    The Children on the Hill

    • By: McMahon, Jennifer
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Monster. The word brings to mind ugly, misshapen creatures wreaking havoc wherever they go. Perhaps the most famous monster is Frankenstein’s monster from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. It’s been over 200 years since the teenaged Shelley created one of the most enduring tales of all time. And over the last two...
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    Siren Queen

    On a whim, a young Chinese-American girl pays with an inch of her hair so that she and he sister can see Romeo and Juliet at the new nickelodeon in their neighborhood. From that moment on, she has a single desire: to be a motion picture star. Not simply an...
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    Never Been Kissed

    • By: Janovsky, Timothy
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    As Wren Roland celebrates his 22nd birthday with his best friends and roommates, Mateo and Avery, he begins to lament the fact that he has never been kissed. He’s been close, but has yet to experience what his degree in film studies has convinced him will be a life-altering and...
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    Only a Monster

    • By: Len, Vanessa
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Joan believes herself to be a typical teenager. She spends her summers in London visiting her maternal grandmother, while her father visits his family in Malaysia. During this visit, she has been volunteering at Holland House, a historic home and museum in Kensington. Holland House is where she met Nick...
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    The Book Woman's Daughter

    • By: Richardson, Kim Michele
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In 2019, Kim Michele Richardson told the story of Cussy Mary Carter and her work as a Pack Horse Librarian in The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek. Now, in 2022,  Richardson returns to tell the next chapter in Cussy Mary’s story, which actually belongs to her daughter, in The Book...
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    One last stop

    • By: McQuiston, Casey
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    A young woman on her way to her first day of classes at Brooklyn College spills coffee on herself just prior to boarding the subway. Another young woman on the train comes to her rescue with a scarf and a kind word. The next time the student boards the train...
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    The Quarter Storm

    • By: Henry, Veronica G.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Vodou priestess Mambo Reina Dumond learned the practices and customs of Vodou as a child from her father, while her family was living in Haiti. She is inhabited by the spirit of Erzulie, which makes her a gifted practitioner of water magic. Reina operates a small business behind her home...
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    One-Shot Harry

    • By: Phillips, Gary
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    The year is 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr. is about to hold his Freedom Rally at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles; William H. Parker is Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department; John F. Kennedy is President of the United States; Pat Brown is the Governor of California; Gas is...
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    The Fervor: A Novel

    Meiko is the Japanese wife of Jamie Briggs, a white US Air Force pilot fighting in World War II. Meiko, and her daughter Aiko, are “residents” of the Minidoka internment camp in Idaho. A few days ago, an unscheduled truck came to the camp. The residents are told to stay...
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    Mickey7

    • By: Ashton, Edward
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Mickey Barnes NEEDS to get off Midgard, the colony planet on which he has lived his entire life. Because staying on Midgard is not an option, he takes the only avenue open to him: he volunteers to be the “expendable” on Midgard’s first outgoing colony ship, the Drakkar. An “expendable”...