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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Rob Costello and his short story collection, The Dancing Bears: Queer Fables for the End Times

    Entrevista con un autor y editor: Rob Costello

    Rob Costello (él) escribe ficción contemporánea y especulativa con una inclinación queer, dirigida a jóvenes y sobre ellos. Es autor de la próxima colección de relatos "Los Osos Bailarines: Fábulas…

  • Author Meg Shaffer and her latest novel, That Night in the Library

    Entrevista con una autora: Eva Jurczyk

    Eva Jurczyk es escritora y bibliotecaria y reside en Toronto. Ha escrito para Jezebel, The Awl, The Rumpus y Publishers Weekly. Eva irrumpió con fuerza en el mundo del misterio en 2022 con su debut,…

  • Author Stuart Turton and his latest novel, The Last Murder at the End of the World

    Entrevista con un autor: Stuart Turton

    Stuart Turton es el autor de los éxitos de ventas "Las 7 ½ muertes de Evelyn Hardcastle" y "El diablo en las aguas oscuras". Sus libros han ganado numerosos premios y se han traducido a treinta y…

  • 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…


Reviews by Daryl M.

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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...
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    A Master of Djinn

    • By: Clark, P. Djèli
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In Cairo in the 1870’s, an inventor and investigator of mysticism named al-Jahiz made a literal breakthrough unlike any other. He pierced the boundaries between our world and other worlds, allowing magic to bleed into ours. In the process, al-Jahiz was lost to another dimension before the rupture between worlds...
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    The Dictionary of Lost Words

    • By: Williams, Pip
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    According to their website, the Oxford English Dictionary “is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.” Serially published in portions, or fascicles, the first fascicle, covering “A to...