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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Juli Min and her first novel, Shanghailanders

    Entrevista con un autor: Juli Min

    Juli Min es escritora y editora, radicada en Shanghái. Estudió literatura rusa y comparada en la Universidad de Harvard y tiene una maestría en Bellas Artes en ficción por Warren Wilson. Fue la…

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

    Entrevista con una autora: Sara Nisha Adams

    Sara Nisha Adams es escritora y editora. Vive en Londres y nació en Hertfordshire, de padres indio-kenianos e ingleses. Su primera novela fue "La lista de lectura". Su última novela es "El jardín del…

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

    Entrevista con un autor: Douglas Westerbek

    Douglas Westerbeke es un bibliotecario que reside en Ohio y trabaja en una de las bibliotecas más grandes de Estados Unidos. Durante la última década, formó parte del jurado local del Premio Literario…

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

    Entrevista con una autora: Christina Estes

    Christina Estes es una reportera galardonada que ha dedicado más de 20 años a cubrir temas de delincuencia, políticas públicas y economía en Phoenix, Arizona. Sus reportajes se han escuchado en la…

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

    Entrevista con una autora: Sulari Gentill

    Tras dedicarse a estudiar astrofísica, graduarse en Derecho y abandonar su carrera legal para escribir libros, Sulari Gentill cultiva trufas negras francesas en su granja, en las faldas de las…

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

    Entrevista con un autor: Justiniano Huang

    Hijo de inmigrantes en Monterey Park, California, Justinian Huang estudió inglés en Pomona College y guionismo en la Universidad de Oxford. Actualmente reside en Los Ángeles con Swagger, un perro…

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

    Entrevista con una autora: Sophie Wan

    Sophie Wan es originaria del Área de la Bahía y ahora lucha contra los inviernos en Filadelfia. Se graduó de la Universidad de California en Berkeley y pasa demasiado tiempo redactando correos…

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

    Entrevista con un autor: Shubnum Khan

    Shubnum Khan es una autora y artista sudafricana. Sus escritos han aparecido en The New York Times; McSweeney's Quarterly; HuffPost; O, The Oprah Magazine; The Sunday Times (Londres); Marie Claire; y…

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

    Entrevista con un autor: Izzy Wasserstein

    Izzy Wasserstein es una mujer trans queer que enseña escritura y literatura. Nació y creció en Kansas y obtuvo su Maestría en Bellas Artes en Escritura Creativa por la Universidad de Nuevo México. Es…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for The Picture Bride

    The Picture Bride

    The year is 1917 and a seventeen-year-old girl named Willow, who lives with her widowed mother and two younger brothers in a small, rural village in southeastern Korea, is asked by a traveling matchmaker if she wants to get married. The older woman shows Willow a photo of a young...
  • Cover image for Darling Girl: A Novel of Peter Pan

    Darling Girl: A Novel of Peter Pan

    • By: Michalski, Liz
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    We all know the story of Peter Pan, the boy who refuses to grow up. J.M. Barrie wrote and published a play and two books about Peter and his adventures in the early 20th century, recounting how Peter visited the Darling children: Wendy, John, and Michael, and spirited them away...
  • Cover image for Acts of Violet

    Acts of Violet

    • By: Montimore, Margarita
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In early 2020, Margarita Montimore published her debut novel, Oona Out of Order. It followed a woman who awakes every January 1st at a different point in her life. She lives in that year, and in that body, until December 31st, only to awaken the following morning beginning a different...
  • Cover image for Hawk Mountain

    Hawk Mountain

    • By: Habib, Conner
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In the late afternoon, Todd sits on the beach watching 6-year-old Anthony, his son, play in the surf. A man approaches Todd, and, after a minute, he recognizes him. It is Jack, who bullied Todd relentlessly during their senior year in high school. In spite of their shared history, Jack...
  • Cover image for The Kaiju Preservation Society

    The Kaiju Preservation Society

    • By: Scalzi, John
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In early March of 2020, Jamie Gray is unceremoniously demoted from marketing executive to “deliverator” at füdmüd, an internet startup company in New York City. As the COVID pandemic worsens, Jamie struggles to get by until a chance delivery happens to be to Tom Stevens. Tom tells Jamie that he...
  • Cover image for A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

    A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

    • By: Chambers, Becky
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In 2021, Becky Chambers introduced readers to the moon of Panga, where, centuries ago, the civilization’s robots gained consciousness and, en masse, walked off into the surrounding wilderness and were never heard from again. Until the day a robot named Splendid Speckled Mosscap walked up to Sibling Dex, a tea...
  • Cover image for Remarkably Bright Creatures

    Remarkably Bright Creatures

    • By: Van Pelt, Shelby
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    After her husband’s death, Tova Sullivan took a job cleaning the Sowell Bay Aquarium. She works evenings after the aquarium has closed to the public, mopping the floors, clearing the trash cans, and cleaning the glass walls of the exhibition tanks until they shine. As she works her way around...
  • Cover image for The Children on the Hill

    The Children on the Hill

    • By: McMahon, Jennifer
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Monster. The word brings to mind ugly, misshapen creatures wreaking havoc wherever they go. Perhaps the most famous monster is Frankenstein’s monster from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. It’s been over 200 years since the teenaged Shelley created one of the most enduring tales of all time. And over the last two...
  • Cover image for Siren Queen

    Siren Queen

    On a whim, a young Chinese-American girl pays with an inch of her hair so that she and he sister can see Romeo and Juliet at the new nickelodeon in their neighborhood. From that moment on, she has a single desire: to be a motion picture star. Not simply an...
  • Cover image for Never Been Kissed

    Never Been Kissed

    • By: Janovsky, Timothy
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    As Wren Roland celebrates his 22nd birthday with his best friends and roommates, Mateo and Avery, he begins to lament the fact that he has never been kissed. He’s been close, but has yet to experience what his degree in film studies has convinced him will be a life-altering and...