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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Margarita Montimore and her latest novel, The Dollhouse Academy

    Interview With an Author: Margarita Montimore

    Margarita Montimore is the author of Acts of Violet, Asleep From Day, and Oona Out of Order, which was a USA Today bestseller and Good Morning America Book Club pick. After receiving a BFA in creative…

  • Author Kemper Donovan and his two novels, The Busy Body and Loose Lips

    Interview With an Author: Kemper Donovan

    Kemper Donovan is the host of the All About Agatha podcast. A graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School, he worked at the literary management company Circle of Confusion for a decade…

  • Author Chris Nichols and his latest book, Bowlarama!: The Architecture of Mid-Century Bowling

    Interview With an Author: Chris Nichols

    Chris Nichols is a longtime preservationist and senior editor at Los Angeles magazine. For many years, he worked with the Los Angeles Conservancy Modern Committee, serving a term as chairman of the…

  • Author Rebecca Serle and her latest novel, Good Dirt

    Interview With an Author: Charmaine Wilkerson

    Charmaine Wilkerson is the New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake, which was named a Read With Jenna Book Club Pick and adapted as a Hulu streaming series by Oprah Winfrey and Kapital…

  • Author Mallory O’Meara and her latest book, Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood’s First Stuntwoman

    Interview With an Author: Mallory O’Meara

    Mallory O’Meara is the bestselling author of The Lady from the Black Lagoon, which won the 2019 SCIBA award for Biography and the 2019 Rondo award for Book of the Year, Girly Drinks, which won a 2022…

  • But Not Too Bold, a novella by Hache Pueyo

    Interview With an Author: Hache Pueyo

    Hache Pueyo is an Argentine-Brazilian writer and translator. She won an Otherwise Fellowship for her work with gender in speculative fiction, and her work has appeared as H. Pueyo in The Magazine of…

  • Author Edward Underhill and his latest book, The In-Between Bookstore

    Interview With an Author: Edward Underhill

    Edward Underhill grew up in the suburbs of Wisconsin, where he could not walk to anything, so he had to make up his own adventures. He studied music in college, spent several years living in very…

  • Author Jess Armstrong and her latest novel, The Secret of the Three Fates

    Interview With an Author: Jess Armstrong

    Jess Armstrong is the USA Today best selling author of the Ruby Vaughn Mysteries. Her debut novel, The Curse of Penryth Hall, won the Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel…

  • Chunck Tingle and his book cover Bury Your Gays

    Interview With an Author: Chuck Tingle

    Chuck Tingle is the USA Today bestselling author of Camp Damascus and Straight. He is a mysterious force of energy behind sunglasses and a pink mask. He is also an anonymous author of romance, horror…

  • Author Delilah S. Dawson and her first novel, The Resurrectionist

    Interview With an Author: A. Rae Dunlap

    A. (Amanda) Rae Dunlap studied film and Victorian literature at Northwestern University and spends her days as a trailer editor at Disney, bringing to life the magic of the world’s most influential…


Reviews by Daryl M.

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    The Lost Story

    • By: Shaffer, Meg
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Mười lăm năm trước, Jeremy và Ralph mất tích trong chuyến đi thực tế cuối năm học đến khu rừng Red Crow State Forest ở Tây Virginia. Một khoảnh khắc trước, họ còn ở đó, rồi họ biến mất. Khu rừng đã được tìm kiếm nhiều lần, nhưng không bao giờ tìm thấy dấu vết nào của hai cậu bé. Và...
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    Arthur and Teddy are Coming Out

    Arthur Edwards đã sống trọn đời mình ở thị trấn nhỏ Northbridge thuộc miền bắc nước Anh. Ông lớn lên ở đó. Và ông đã gặp gỡ và kết hôn với vợ mình, Madeleine, cũng ở Northbridge. Northbridge là nơi Madeleine và ông nuôi dạy hai người con, Elizabeth và Patrick. Cũng như hầu hết các thị trấn nhỏ khác, bất kể...
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    Star Struck

    • By: McCown, Marjorie
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Khi độc giả chia tay Joey Jessup ở cuối cuốn "The Final Cut" của Marjorie McCown, cô đã phát hiện ra danh tính của kẻ sát nhân đã giết chết trợ lý đạo diễn Courtney Lisle trên phim trường một bộ phim siêu anh hùng kinh phí lớn. Cô đã sống sót sau một vụ ám sát hụt khi kẻ sát nhân...
  • Cover image for The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

    The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

    • By: Clark, P. Djèlí
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Eveen là một sát thủ chuyên nghiệp. Điều cần nhấn mạnh ở đây là từ "chuyên nghiệp". Cô ta là một sát thủ được hồi sinh, bị xóa sạch ký ức và phục vụ cho Nữ chúa Sát thủ, người đã cho cô ta cơ hội "sống" lần thứ hai. Cô ta làm việc hiệu quả, kín đáo và sẵn sàng thủ tiêu (thuật ngữ...
  • Cover image for A Short Walk Through a Wide World

    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...
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    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...