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Daryl M.

Librarian


Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Casey McQuiston and her first novel, Red, White & Royal Blue

    Entrevista con un autor: Casey McQuiston

    Casey McQuiston creció en los pantanos del sur de Luisiana, donde cultivó una pasión inquebrantable por las galletas de mantequilla y miel y las historias conmovedoras. Estudió periodismo y trabajó en…

  • Author Sarah Gailey and her novel, Magic For Liars

    Entrevista con una autora: Sarah Gailey

    Sarah Gailey, ganadora del premio Hugo, vive y trabaja en Los Ángeles, California. Sus obras de no ficción han sido publicadas por Mashable y el Boston Globe, y su ficción se ha publicado…

  • Kris Waldherr and her book

    Entrevista con un autor: Kris Waldherr

    Kris Waldherr es una autora, ilustradora y diseñadora galardonada. Es miembro de la Sociedad de Novela Histórica y su ficción ha recibido becas del Centro de Artes Creativas de Virginia y una beca de…

  • Seanan McGuire and her book Middlegame

    Entrevista con un autor: Seanan McGuire

    Seanan McGuire es la galardonada autora de las series de fantasía urbana October Daye, InCryptid y Wayward Children. Además, escribe ficción más oscura bajo el seudónimo de Mira Grant. Seanan vive en…

  • Author Yangsze Choo and her latest novel, Smoke and Summons

    Entrevista con un autor: Charlie Holmberg

    Charlie N. Holmberg se crio como trekkie junto a tres hermanas, que también tienen nombres de niño, en Salt Lake City, Utah. Toca el ukelele, tiene demasiados pares de gafas y finalmente adoptó un…

  • T.J. Martinson and his debut novel, The Reign of the Kingfisher

    Entrevista con un autor: TJ Martinson

    TJ Martinson creció a las afueras de Chicago. Obtuvo su maestría en estudios literarios en la Universidad del Este de Illinois y actualmente cursa un doctorado en la Universidad de Indiana en…

  • Anthony Horowitz and his latest Mystery series book, The Sentence is Death.

    Entrevista con un autor: Anthony Horowitz

    Anthony Horowitz es un prolífico periodista y escritor de televisión, además de autor de literatura juvenil y adulta. Los herederos de Doyle y Fleming le han encomendado escribir nuevas aventuras para…

  • Author Yangsze Choo and her latest novel, The Night Tiger

    Entrevista con un autor: Yangsze Choo

    Yangsze Choo es malaya de cuarta generación, de ascendencia china. Se graduó de la Universidad de Harvard y es autora de La Novia Fantasma, que Netflix está adaptando a una serie de televisión. Su…

  • Author Cory Doctorow and his novel Radicalized

    Entrevista con un autor: Cory Doctorow

    Cory Doctorow es coeditor de Boing Boing (una revista, blog y directorio de cosas maravillosas, galardonado), consultor especial de la Electronic Frontier Foundation, investigador asociado del Media…

  • Scotto Moore and his novel, Your Favorite Band Can Not Save You

    Entrevista con un autor: Scotto Moore

    Scotto Moore es un dramaturgo de Seattle cuyas obras incluyen varias obras de ficción especulativa. También es el creador de la serie cómica web The Coffee Table, sobre una pareja que descubre que su…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for The Devil and the Dark Water

    The Devil and the Dark Water

    • By: Turton, Stuart
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In a "locked-room" or "impossible crime" mystery, a crime, or series of crimes, is committed under circumstances that appear, at least initially, impossible for said crime to have been enacted. Those same conditions will also seem to preclude the criminal entering or exiting the crime scene.The first “locked-room” mystery was...
  • Cover image for The Eighth Detective

    The Eighth Detective

    • By: Pavesi, Alex
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In the early 1940s, a Scottish professor of mathematics devises a mathematical definition of the murder mystery story and writes seven provocative stories as proof of his theory. He publishes a journal article regarding his ideas and then self-publishes his seven stories in a small volume, entitled The White Murders.Decades...
  • Cover image for Crossings : consisting of three manuscripts

    Crossings : consisting of three manuscripts

    • By: Landragin, Alex
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Crossings, Alex Landragin’s debut novel is as difficult to define as it is to describe. At its most elemental, Crossings is a collection of three novellas that collectively tell a story. There are elements of several different genres present: historical fiction, mystery, fantasy, and romance. And, perhaps most surprising, the...
  • Cover image for Before She Was Helen

    Before She Was Helen

    • By: Cooney, Caroline B.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Helen Stephens lives a quiet life in Sun City, a retirement community in South Carolina. She regularly plays cards in the clubhouse with other residents of the complex, including her neighbors Joyce and Johnny. While she is mostly retired, she continues teaching some Latin classes at a local high school...
  • Cover image for It Came From the Sky

    It Came From the Sky

    • By: Sedoti, Chelsea
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Sixteen-year-old Gideon Hofstadt prefers an orderly life and an orderly future. In his schoolwork, he excels in the sciences, but struggles with the vagaries of the humanities. It is the same way he struggles with his relationships with his family, friends, and his maybe boyfriend, Owen. Gideon cares about Owen...
  • Cover image for The Operator

    The Operator

    • By: Berg, Gretchen
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In a world where most people walk around with a telephone on their person that can allow them to contact someone anywhere in the country, or the world, easily and directly, it may be a bit of a shock to realize that as little as 50 years ago many people...
  • Cover image for The Darwin Affair

    The Darwin Affair

    • By: Mason, Timothy
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    It probably goes without saying that when Charles Darwin published his revolutionary theories regarding evolution, and their supporting evidence, in The Origin of Species in 1859, there was controversy. Even today, 160 years later, Darwin’s theory of species evolving over time still engenders strong feelings of resistance to his ideas...
  • Cover image for The Ghosts of Sherwood

    The Ghosts of Sherwood

    • By: Vaughn, Carrie
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    The earliest references to Robin Hood date back to the 14th century, and the earliest surviving copies of the story are from the 15th century. The details may change, but the core of the legend concerns a nobleman turned outlaw with a band of followers known as the Merry Men...