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Daryl M.

Librarian


Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Douglas Westerbeke and his latest book, A Short Walk Through a Wide World

    Interview With an Author: Douglas Westerbek

    Douglas Westerbeke is a librarian who lives in Ohio and works at one of the largest libraries in the US. He has spent the last decade on the local panel of the International Dublin Literary Award…

  • Author Christina Estes and her debut novel, Off the Air

    Interview With an Author: Christina Estes

    Christina Estes is an award-winning reporter who has spent more than 20 years covering crime, public policy, and business in Phoenix, Arizona. Her reporting has been heard on National Public Radio…

  • Author Jacqueline Holland and her latest novel, The Mystery Writer

    Interview With an Author: Sulari Gentill

    After setting out to study astrophysics, graduating in law and then abandoning her legal career to write books, Sulari Gentill now grows French black truffles on her farm in the foothills of the Snowy…

  • Author Justinian Huang and his debut novel, The Emperor and the Endless Palace

    Interview With an Author: Justinian Huang

    Born to immigrants in Monterey Park, California, Justinian Huang studied English at Pomona College and screenwriting at the University of Oxford. He is now based in Los Angeles with Swagger, a…

  • Author Sophie Wan and her debut novel, Women of Good Fortune

    Interview With an Author: Sophie Wan

    Sophie Wan is a Bay Area native who is now battling the winters in Philadelphia. She graduated from UC Berkeley and spends far too much time drafting emails and drinking tea. Women of Good Fortune is…

  • Author Shubnum Khan and her debut novel, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    Interview With an Author: Shubnum Khan

    Shubnum Khan is a South African author and artist. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times; McSweeney’s Quarterly; HuffPost; O, The Oprah Magazine; The Sunday Times (London); Marie Claire; and…

  • Author Izzy Wasserstein and her debut novel, These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart

    Interview With an Author: Izzy Wasserstein

    Izzy Wasserstein is a queer, trans woman who teaches writing and literature. She was born and raised in Kansas and received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Mexico. She is the…

  • Author Rebecca Serle and her latest novel, Expiration Dates

    Interview With an Author: Rebecca Serle

    Rebecca Serle is the New York Times bestselling author of One Italian Summer, In Five Years, The Dinner List, and the young adult novels The Edge of Falling and When You Were Mine. Serle also…

  • Author: Yangsze Choo

    Interview With an Author: Yangsze Choo

    Yangsze Choo is the New York Times bestselling author of The Ghost Bride (now a Netflix Original series) and The Night Tiger, a Reese's Book Club Pick, and a Big Jubilee Read selection for Queen…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for The Lost Story

    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.
  • 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...
  • 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...
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    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...