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Daryl M.

Librarian


Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Joseph Knox and his latest novel, True Crime Story

    Entrevista con un autor: Joseph Knox

    Joseph Knox nació y creció en Manchester, Inglaterra, y sus alrededores, donde trabajó en bares y librerías antes de mudarse a Londres. Su primera novela, Sirenas, la primera de la trilogía de Aidan…

  • Author and movie critic Kim Newman and his latest novel, Something More Than Night

    Entrevista con una autora: Kim Newman

    Kim Newman es un autor y crítico de cine popular y respetado, conocido por su aclamada serie de historia alternativa, Anno Dracula. Escribe regularmente para la revista Empire y colabora con The…

  • Author Goldy Moldavsky and her latest book, The Mary Shelley Club

    Entrevista con un autor: Goldy Moldavsky

    Goldy Moldavsky nació en Lima, Perú, y creció en Brooklyn, Nueva York, donde reside con su familia. Es autora de los éxitos de ventas del New York Times "Kill the Boy Band" y "No Good Deed". Entre sus…

  • Author Saraciea J. Fennell and her latest book, Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed

    Entrevista con una autora: Saraciea J. Fennell

    Saraciea J. Fennell es una escritora afrohondureña y fundadora de The Bronx is Reading. También es publicista literaria y ha trabajado con numerosos autores galardonados y superventas del New York…

  • Author Nicholas Meyer and his latest book, The Return of the Pharaoh

    Entrevista con un autor: Nicholas Meyer

    Nicholas Meyer es autor de tres novelas anteriores de Sherlock Holmes, incluyendo La solución del siete por ciento, que estuvo en la lista de los más vendidos del New York Times durante un año. Es…

  • Steven Reigns and his book, A Quilt fo David

    Entrevista con un autor: Steven Reigns

    Steven Reigns es un poeta y educador de Los Ángeles, nombrado el primer Poeta Laureado de West Hollywood. Además de más de una docena de poemarios, ha publicado las colecciones "Herencia" y "Tu…

  • Author Roshani Chokshi and her latest novel, Once More Upon a Time

    Entrevista con un autor: Roshani Chokshi

    Roshani Chokshi es autora de libros comerciales y aclamados por la crítica para lectores de primaria y secundaria, inspirados en la mitología y el folclore universales. Su obra ha sido nominada a los…

  • Brent Spiner and his debut novel Fan Fiction: A Mem-Noir

    Entrevista con un autor: Brent Spiner

    Brent Spiner es actor, comediante y cantante, conocido por interpretar al androide Teniente Comandante Data en Star Trek: La Nueva Generación (1987-1994). Ha aparecido en numerosos papeles de…

  • Author TJ Klune and his latest novel, Under the Whispering Door

    Entrevista con un autor: TJ Klune

    TJ Klune es el autor más vendido del New York Times y USA Today, ganador del Premio Literario Lambda, de La Casa en el Mar Cerúleo, Los Extraordinarios y más. Siendo queer, Klune cree que es…


Reviews by Daryl M.

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    The Extraordinaries

    Nick Bell is far from an ordinary teen. He experiences attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and is required to take daily medication. Two years ago, his mother was killed in a bank robbery, leaving him and his father to reconstruct their lives together. He met his best friend, Seth Gray...
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    In Five Years: A Novel

    • By: Serle, Rebecca
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    “Where do you see yourself in five years?” This is a question that almost everyone has been asked at some point in their life. It may give us pause. We may think we know. But the answer we give is always a guess because no one really knows what the...
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    Out of Character

    • By: Albert, Annabeth
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In last year’s Conventionally Yours, Annabeth Albert took readers on a virtual roadtrip, while the country was in lockdown, so that they could join tabletop gamers Alden, Conrad, and Jasper as they made their way from New England to Las Vegas for Massive Odyssey Con West, the annual national gathering...
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    The Final Girl Support Group

    • By: Hendrix, Grady
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Any fan of horror movies knows what the term “final girl” means. A final girl is the person left standing at the end of a horror movie. During the course of the film, she evades the threat, usually losing several friends and family members in the process, long enough to...
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    Razorblade Tears

    • By: Cosby, S. A.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Two young men, who are deeply in love, married, and fathers to a young girl. Two fathers, who cannot accept their sons as they are nor the life they are creating. Two senseless murders that remove any possibility of reconciliation or the chance to say what should have been said...
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    A Psalm for the Wild-Built

    • By: Chambers, Becky
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Centuries ago, on the moon of Panga, the robot workers, who filled the factories and other industrial pursuits of the human civilization, gained consciousness. Rather than be integrated into Pangan culture, as they were offered, the robots chose to leave, en-masse, into the surrounding wilderness. They were never heard from...
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    The Album of Dr. Moreau

    • By: Gregory, Daryl
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    The Island of Dr. Moreau was H.G. Wells’ third novel and was first published in 1896. It recounts the experiences of a shipwreck victim who finds himself on an island populated by animals that have been modified by the titular Dr. Moreau, using scientific means, to become human/animal hybrids who...
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    Mother May I

    • By: Jackson, Joshilyn
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    It happens in an instant. While Bree Cabbat watches her eldest daughter rehearse a school production of Grease, her infant son, Robert, sleeps in the seat next to her in the balcony of the school’s theatre. One moment he is there, the next he is gone. In his place is...