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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 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...