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Daryl M.

Librarian


Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Peter Swanson and his latest novel, Nine Lives

    Interview With an Author: Peter Swanson

    Peter Swanson is the New York Times bestselling author of eight novels, including The Kind Worth Killing, winner of the New England Society Book Award, and finalist for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel…

  • Author Kate Moore and her first novel, Only A Monster

    Interview With an Author: Vanessa Len

    Vanessa Len is an Australian author of Chinese-Malaysian and Maltese heritage. An educational editor, she has worked on everything from language learning programs to STEM resources, to professional…

  • Author Edward Ashton and his latest novel, Mickey7

    Interview With an Author: Edward Ashton

    Edward Ashton is the author of the novels Three Days in April and The End of Ordinary, as well as of short stories which have appeared in venues ranging from the newsletter of an Italian sausage…

  • Author Sequoia Nagamatsu and his debut novel, How High We Go in the Dark

    Interview With an Author: Sequoia Nagamatsu

    Sequoia Nagamatsu is a Japanese-American writer and managing editor of Psychopomp Magazine, an online quarterly dedicated to innovative prose. Originally from Hawaii and the San Francisco Bay Area, he…

  • Author Alex Segura and his latest novel, Secret Identity

    Interview With an Author: Alex Segura

    Alex Segura is the author of Star Wars Poe Dameron: Free Fall and the acclaimed Pete Fernandez Mystery series. He has also written a number of comic books, most notably the superhero noir The Black…

  • Author Freya Marske and her debut novel, A Marvellous Light

    Interview With an Author: Freya Marske

    Freya Marske is one of the co-hosts of Be the Serpent, a Hugo Award-nominated podcast about SFF, fandom, and literary tropes, and her work has sold to Analog and been shortlisted for Best Fantasy…

  • Author Andrea Hairston and her latest novel, Redwood and Wildfire

    Interview With an Author: Andrea Hairston

    Andrea Hairston is a novelist, essayist, playwright, and the Artistic Director of Chrysalis Theatre. She is the author of Mindscape, shortlisted for the Phillip K. Dick and Otherwise awards, and…

  • Journalist and editor, Eliza Reid and her first book, Secrets of the Sprakkar

    Interview With an Author: Eliza Reid

    Eliza Reid is a journalist, editor, and co-founder of the annual Iceland Writers Retreat. Eliza grew up on a hobby farm near Ottawa, Canada, and moved to Iceland in 2003, five years after winning a…

  • Author Eva Jurczyk and her first novel, The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

    Interview With an Author: Eva Jurczyk

    Eva Jurczyk is a writer and librarian living in Toronto. She has written for Jezebel, The Awl, The Rumpus, and Publishers Weekly. The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections is her first…

  • Author Marie Rutkoski and her first novel, Real Easy

    Interview With an Author: Marie Rutkoski

    Born in Illinois, Marie Rutkoski is a graduate of the University of Iowa and Harvard University. She is a professor of English literature at Brooklyn College and a New York Times bestselling author of…


Reviews by Daryl M.

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    Brokeula

    • By: Seidlinger, Michael J.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.

    James  Sugre is a vampire. He has lived for centuries, but has made some questionable choices. Bad choices, when it comes to investments. Now, he is broke. He has no money and is deep in debt. He can’t even afford his own reflection (they are available for a fee from Vampire Nation, an international conglomerate that both governs and provides for the world’s vampire population).

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    Mazywood

    • By: Due, Tananarive
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.

    Wishes. We all make them, either silently to ourselves or possibly as a breathless whisper as we drop a coin in a fountain. The reason behind them can range from whimsical to deadly serious. And, in the "real world," they are, to quote Douglas Adams, "mostly harmless." In the world of fiction, however, wishes are entirely different. 

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    Another Fine Mess

    エヴァンス葬儀場は、その所在地であるテキサス州南東部の町が誕生したのとほぼ同じくらい長い歴史を持つ。代々受け継がれてきた事業であり、エヴァンス家の女性たちによって運営されている。現在の家長であるデューシーは、18年前に謎の失踪を遂げたパイの娘である。
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    Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

    • By: Schwab, Victoria
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    2020年、VE・シュワブは読者に、18世紀初頭のフランスで望まない結婚を避けるためにファウスト的な取引をする若い女性、アディ・ラルーを紹介した。『アディ・ラルーの見えない人生』で、シュワブはアディが自身の狡猾さと強い意志によって、数世紀にわたって人生を形作っていく様子を追っていく。
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    Good Dirt

    • By: Wilkerson, Charmaine
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    エボニー・“エビー”・フリーマンが10歳の時、彼女は自宅に押し入った強盗未遂事件の唯一の目撃者となった。この事件で15歳の兄バズが射殺され、かけがえのない家宝が破壊された。エビーは著名な黒人一家の娘であるという事実は…
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    But Not Too Bold

    メイドがタイプライターで打たれたメモを見つけた朝、ダリアの人生は一変した。メモには「鍵の新しい管理人を雇え。緊急。夜明け前まで」と書かれていた。カプリシャス・ハウスの住人全員が、そのメモの意味と誰が書いたのかを知っていた。その作者は、カプリシャス・ハウスの女主人、巨大な蜘蛛と人間のハーフであるアナテマ夫人だった…。
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    The Murder of Mr. Ma

    • By: Nee, John Shen Yen, Rozan, SJ
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    1924年のロンドン。内気な若き学者、老舎は数学者バートランド・ラッセルの家に呼び出される。到着すると、ラッセルは友人であり同僚でもあるディー・レン・ジエ判事が、中国人の扇動者グループと共に誤って逮捕されたと説明する。ラッセルは、ディーの身元が明らかになれば…