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Daryl M.

Librarian


Posts by Daryl M.

  • 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…

  • Author Tobias Buckell and his latest novel, A Stranger in the Citadel

    Entrevista con un autor: Tobias S. Buckell

    Calificado como "violento, poético y de lectura compulsiva" por Maclean's, el autor de ciencia ficción Tobias S. Buckell es un escritor superventas del New York Times y ganador del Premio Mundial de…

  • Author Emily Critchley and her debut novel, One Puzzling Afternoon

    Entrevista con una autora: Emily Critchley

    Emily Critchley ha vivido en Essex, Brighton y Londres, y ahora reside en Hertfordshire, donde trabaja como bibliotecaria. Tiene una licenciatura con honores en Escritura Creativa por la Universidad…

  • Editor John Joseph Adams and his latest anthology, Out There Screaming

    Entrevista con un editor: John Joseph Adams

    John Joseph Adams es editor de la serie Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy y editor de más de cuarenta antologías, como Wastelands, The Living Dead y A People's Future of the United States…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for Camp Damascus

    Camp Damascus

    • By: Tingle, Chuck
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Rose Darling is a high school senior who has lived her entire life in the small town of Neverton, Montana. She’s also grown up attending Kingdom of the Pine church with her parents. Kingdom of the Pine is a smaller church, compared to some others, but it has an international...
  • Cover image for The Legend of Charlie Fish

    The Legend of Charlie Fish

    • By: Rountree, Josh
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Floyd Betts is a bit of a loner. He lives a solitary existence in Galveston, Texas. He works construction on local building projects and rents a room at Abigail Elder’s boarding house. It’s a quiet life, and Floyd likes it. But all of that is about to change.When Floyd returns...
  • Cover image for The London Séance Society

    The London Séance Society

    • By: Penner, Sarah
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Lenna Wickes, and her younger sister Evie, are very different people. Lenna is interested in the world and how it works. She has an interest in science, even though she knows that a young lady in Victorian London is not supposed to be interested in such things. Evie, on the...
  • Cover image for The celebrants : a novel

    The celebrants : a novel

    • By: Rowley, Steven, 1971-
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Two weeks before their college graduation, a group of friends, who have become family during their college experience, must attend the funeral of one of their own. Alec has died of an apparent drug overdose and it shakes them all, Craig, Jordan, Jordy, Marielle, and Naomi, to their cores. Alec’s...
  • Cover image for Final Cut

    Final Cut

    • By: McCown, Marjorie
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Joey Jessup is very good at her job. And it is a job that she really enjoys. Joey is a key costumer and over her career she has worked on almost every type of film, with a number of A-list actors and directors, along with some of the most talented...
  • Cover image for The Wishing Game

    The Wishing Game

    • By: Shaffer, Meg
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    How many of us have books, or series of books, that provided an escape for us as children and, because of that, we continue to love them as adults? How many of us longed to receive an owl-delivered letter from Hogwarts; find a secret entrance at the back of the...
  • Cover image for Our Hideous Progeny

    Our Hideous Progeny

    • By: Mcgill, C. E.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley tells the tale of how Victor Frankenstein challenges the “natural order” and explores the secrets of life itself by creating a being made from the pieces of other men. But what if Victor had chosen another direction for his research? What if, instead of choosing to...
  • Cover image for Going Zero

    Going Zero

    • By: McCarten, Anthony
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    We all know that we are constantly being observed and monitored in today’s world. There are security and surveillance cameras on many homes, businesses, and on the traffic lights at intersections. ATMs and now self-check out machines in retail establishments also include cameras. Purchases, whether online or in a brick...
  • Cover image for The Lies of the Ajungo

    The Lies of the Ajungo

    • By: Utomi, Moses Ose
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    “There is no water in the City of Lies.”Tutu has lived all of his short life in the City of Lies with his mother. Located in the Forever Desert, the City of Lies used to have water. . .but the inhabitants were vanquished by the fierce Ajungo Empire which required...
  • 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...