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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Rebecca Serle and her latest novel, Expiration Dates

    Entrevista con una autora: Rebecca Serle

    Rebecca Serle es la autora superventas del New York Times de Un verano italiano, En cinco años, La lista de la cena y las novelas juveniles Al filo de la caída y Cuando eras mía. Serle también…

  • Author: Yangsze Choo

    Entrevista con un autor: Yangsze Choo

    Yangsze Choo es la autora superventas del New York Times de La Novia Fantasma (ahora una serie original de Netflix) y El Tigre de la Noche, una de las favoritas del Club de Lectura de Reese's y una de…

  • Author Kacen Callender and their latest novel, Infinity Alchemist

    Entrevista con un autor: Kacen Callender

    Kacen Callender es el autor más vendido y galardonado de múltiples novelas para niños, adolescentes y adultos, incluyendo la ganadora del Premio Stonewall Honor Book, Felix Ever After, y la ganadora…

  • Author Gareth Brown and his debut novel, The Book of Doors

    Entrevista con un autor: Gareth Brown

    Gareth Brown quiso ser escritor desde muy joven y terminó su primera novela siendo adolescente. Durante los últimos veinte años, ha trabajado en la Administración Pública del Reino Unido y en el…

  • Author Douglas Preston and his latest novel, Fourteen Days

    Entrevista con un autor: Douglas Preston

    Douglas Preston es autor de treinta y nueve libros de ficción y no ficción, de los cuales treinta y dos han sido best-sellers del New York Times. Es coautor, junto con Lincoln Child, de la serie de…

  • Author Emily Ruth Verona and her debut novel, Midnight on Beacon Street

    Entrevista con una autora: Emily Ruth Verona

    Emily Ruth Verona se licenció en Escritura Creativa y Estudios Cinematográficos en la Universidad Estatal de Nueva York en Purchase. En 2014, ganó el Premio Literario Pinch en Ficción. Es nominada al…

  • Book cover of Theda Bara: Her Career, Life and Legend by Rob Liebman

    Entrevista con un autor: Roy Liebman

    Roy Liebman ha tenido una larga trayectoria bibliotecaria, comenzando en las Bibliotecas Públicas de Brooklyn y Nueva York. Fue jefe de departamento en las bibliotecas del Instituto Tecnológico de…

  • Author Aimee Pokwatka and her latest novel, The Parliament

    Entrevista con una autora: Aimee Pokwatka

    Aimee Pokwatka creció en Wheeling, Virginia Occidental. Estudió antropología en la Universidad de Carolina del Norte en Greensboro y obtuvo su maestría en escritura creativa en la Universidad de…

  • Author Jess Armstrong and her debut novel, The Curse of Penryth Hall

    Entrevista con un autor: Jess Armstrong

    La primera novela de Jess Armstrong, La maldición de Penryth Hall, ganó el Concurso de Primera Novela Policial de Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America. Tiene una maestría en Historia de Estados…

  • Author James Patterson and his latest novel, Holmes, Marple & Poe

    Entrevista con un autor: James Patterson

    James Patterson es el autor más vendido del mundo. Entre sus creaciones se encuentran Alex Cross, el Club de Mujeres Asesinas, Michael Bennett y Maximum Ride. Sus obras de no ficción número uno en…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for Hell Bent

    Hell Bent

    • By: Bardugo, Leigh
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    At the end of Ninth House, Galaxy “Alex” Stern solved the mystery of who killed Tara Hutchins and why, uncovering a conspiracy that involved some of the highest offices of Yale University and several of their “secret societies.” At the end of the novel, Darlington, Alex’s advisor in Lethe, the “ninth...
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    The Motion Picture Teller

    • By: Cotterill, Colin
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Supot Yongjaiyut knows he is not living his best life. The year is 1996 and Supot lives in Bangkok. During the day, he works for the Royal Thai Mail Service, a job he loathes and for which he knows he has no aptitude. When he’s not at work, he spends...
  • Cover image for Weyward: A Novel

    Weyward: A Novel

    • By: Hart, Emilia
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    “The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.”  From: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence by Adrienne RichAltha is a 21-year-old woman who, in 1619, is accused of, and tried for, witchcraft in her small English village. She is a...
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    Stone Blind

    • By: Haynes, Natalie
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    "I only see them for an instant. Then they're gone. But it's enough. Enough to know that the hero isn't the one who's kind or brave or loyal. Sometimes -- not always, but sometimes -- he is monstrous. And the monster? Who is she? She is what happens when someone...
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    The Getaway

    • By: Giles, Lamar
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Karloff Country is a marvel. Modeled on Walt Disney World in Florida, Karloff Country is a slightly smaller theme park/resort complex with a similar number of theme parks as Walt Disney World, but also includes: planned communities for all of its employees, a power plant, vertical farms to provide the...
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    Paperback Jack

    • By: Estleman, Loren D.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    The year is 1946. WWII has ended and Jacob Heppleman is one of the many veterans returning home from the European conflict. For Jacob, home is New York City. Before the war, he wrote detective, western, and war stories for the pulp magazines. He even published a novel that was...
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    Neom

    • By: Tidhar, Lavie
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    A sprawling metropolis on the edge of the Red Sea that is simultaneously a playground of the wealthy and a struggle for the poor. A woman working multiple jobs to survive because she isn’t rich in a place that isn’t kind to someone without money. A young boy, alone in...
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    Gallant

    • By: Schwab, Victoria
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Olivia Prior has lived at Merilance since she was two years old. While Merilance calls itself a school, the truth is that it is closer to an asylum, a prison. It is a place where girls and young women who are not wanted are sent when they have nowhere else...
  • Cover image for Wrong Place, Wrong Time

    Wrong Place, Wrong Time

    • By: McAllister, Gillian
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    It is a given that, in most mystery novels, someone dies. The death occurs either before, or shortly after, the novel begins. The bulk of the narrative will explore how or why someone died. In her new novel, Wrong Place, Wrong Time, Gillian McAllister finds a new way to approach...