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Daryl M.

Librarian


Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Chris Nashawaty and his latest book, The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982

    Interview With an Author: Chris Nashawaty

    Chris Nashawaty is a writer, editor, and former Entertainment Weekly film critic. He is the author of Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story and his work has appeared in Esquire…

  • Author Meg Shaffer and her latest novel, The Lost Story

    Interview With an Author: Meg Shaffer

    Meg Shaffer is the USA Today bestselling author of The Wishing Game, which was a Book of the Month finalist for Book of the Year, a Reader’s Digest and Washington Post Best Book of the Year, and has…

  • Bruce Borgos between his 2 books covers, Shades of Mercy and the Bitter Past

    Interview With an Author: Bruce Borgos

    Bruce Borgos lives and writes from the Nevada desert where he works hard every day to prove his high school guidance counselor had good instincts when he said, "You'll never be an astronaut." He has a…

  • Author Meg Shaffer and her latest novel, That Night in the Library

    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. Eva smashed onto the mystery scene in 2022 with her debut, The…

  • Author Stuart Turton and his latest novel, The Last Murder at the End of the World

    Interview With an Author: Stuart Turton

    Stuart Turton is the best selling author of The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and The Devil in the Dark Water. His books have won numerous awards and been translated into thirty-seven languages…

  • Author Juli Min and her first novel, Shanghailanders

    Interview With an Author: Juli Min

    Juli Min is a writer and editor based in Shanghai. She studied Russian and comparative literature at Harvard University, and she holds an MFA in fiction from Warren Wilson. She was the founding editor…

  • Author Sara Nisha Adams and her latest novel, The Twilight Garden

    Interview With an Author: Sara Nisha Adams

    Sara Nisha Adams is a writer and editor. She lives in London and was born in Hertfordshire to Indian-Kenyan and English parents. Her first novel was The Reading List. Her latest novel is The Twilight…


Reviews by Daryl M.

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    The Lost Story

    • By: Shaffer, Meg
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    15년 전, 제레미와 랄프는 학년말 현장 학습으로 웨스트버지니아 주 레드 크로우 주립 삼림공원에 갔다가 사라졌습니다. 한순간 그곳에 있었는데, 어느새 사라져 버렸습니다. 숲을 수색했지만, 소년들의 흔적은 끝내 찾지 못했습니다. 그리고…
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    Arthur and Teddy are Coming Out

    아서 에드워즈는 영국 북부의 작은 마을 노스브리지에서 평생을 살았습니다. 그는 그곳에서 자랐고, 아내 매들린을 만나 결혼했습니다. 노스브리지는 매들린과 아서가 두 자녀 엘리자베스와 패트릭을 키운 곳이기도 합니다. 대부분의 작은 마을이 그렇듯, 그의 삶 또한...
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    Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

    • By: Hughes, Emily C.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    공포. 좋아하는 사람도 있고, 싫어하는 사람도 있죠! 대체로 사람들은 이 장르에 대해 강한 감정을 가지고 있으며, 호불호가 극명하게 갈립니다. 아이러니하게도, 공포라는 장르 자체를 '두려워하는' 사람들도 있습니다. 네, 정말 공포 장르를 두려워하는 거죠.
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    Star Struck

    • By: McCown, Marjorie
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    마조리 맥카운의 소설 『파이널 컷』의 마지막 부분에서 독자들은 조이 제섭이 거액의 슈퍼히어로 영화 촬영장에서 조감독 코트니 리슬을 살해한 범인의 정체를 밝혀낸 것을 보게 됩니다. 그녀는 범인이 자신을 살해하려던 시도에서 살아남았는데…
  • Cover image for The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

    The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

    • By: Clark, P. Djèlí
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    이븐은 전문 킬러입니다. 여기서 중요한 것은 "전문"이라는 단어에 있습니다. 그녀는 기억이 지워진 채 되살아난 킬러로, 그녀에게 두 번째 "삶"의 기회를 준 암살단 여두목을 섬기고 있습니다. 그녀는 효율적이고 신중하며, (살인이라는 용어 자체가...) 기꺼이 처치합니다.
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    A Short Walk Through a Wide World

    • By: Westerbeke, Douglas
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Three sisters gather at what they have decided is a wishing well near their home in Paris. The year is 1885. There are so many terrible things happening in the world that they decide they each will make a wish and sacrifice something important to them by casting it into...
  • Cover image for The Twilight Garden

    The Twilight Garden

    • By: Adams, Sara Nisha
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    There are two residences on Eastbourne Road in Stoke Newington on the outskirts of London. Winston has lived in #79, with his boyfriend Lewis, for several years. Bernice, recently divorced, has just purchased #77 as a new home for herself and her young son, Sebastian. The two houses share a...
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    How to Solve Your Own Murder

    • By: Perrin, Kristen
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Annie’s Great Aunt Frances has always been a presence in Annie’s life. A rather nebulous, undefined presence, but a presence none the less. Great Aunt Frances owns the house in Chelsea where Annie has grown up with her mother. Communication from Great Aunt Frances has always been sporadic at best...
  • Cover image for The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    • By: Khan, Shubnum
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Fifteen-year-old Sana has just moved to Durban, a city on the eastern coast of South Africa, with her father. Her mother, a victim of cancer, died a few years earlier and her father believes the move to the once grand, now dilapidated, estate that is an odd type of apartment...
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    Women of Good Fortune

    Sophie Wan opens her debut novel with this bit of information:“Sheng nu – ‘leftover women’ – unmarried women over the age of twenty-seven. Later adopted by the internet community to refer to often well-educated women who had passed the appropriate age for marriage.”Wan then goes on to introduce readers to...