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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • C.L. Polk and their book Even Though I Knew the End

    Entrevista con un autor: CL Polk

    CL Polk (ellos/ellas) escribió la serie nominada al Hugo, El Ciclo de Kingston, incluyendo la ganadora del Premio WFA, Witchmark. El Pacto de Medianoche fue finalista de Canada Reads, Nebula, Locus…

  • Author Leigh Bardugo and her latest novel, Hell Bent

    Entrevista con un autor: Leigh Bardugo

    Leigh Bardugo es una autora número 1 en ventas del New York Times y creadora del Grishaverso (ahora una serie original de Netflix), que abarca la trilogía Sombra y Hueso, la duología Seis de Cuervos…

  • Author Ryan North and his latest book, How to Take Over the World

    Entrevista con un autor: Ryan North

    Ryan North es un autor superventas del New York Times, cuyos libros incluyen Cómo inventarlo todo, Romeo y/o Julieta y Ser o no ser. Es el creador de Dinosaur Comics y el escritor ganador del Premio…

  • Author Natalie Haynes and her latest novel, Stone Blind

    Entrevista con una autora: Natalie Haynes

    Natalie Haynes es autora de siete libros, entre ellos "Mil Barcos", un éxito de ventas nacional y preseleccionado para el Premio Femenino de Ficción de 2020, y el libro de no ficción "La Jarra de…

  • Author Jacqueline Holland and her first novel, The God of Endings

    Entrevista con una autora: Jacqueline Holland

    Jacqueline Holland tiene una maestría en Bellas Artes de la Universidad de Kansas. Su trabajo ha aparecido en Hotel Amerika y la revista Big Fiction, entre otras. Vive en las Ciudades Gemelas con su…

  • Author Jane Yolen and her latest novel, The Scarlet Circus

    Entrevista con una autora: Jane Yolen

    Jane Yolen es autora de más de cuatrocientos libros, entre ficción infantil, poesía, cuentos, novelas gráficas, no ficción, fantasía y ciencia ficción. Entre sus publicaciones se incluyen Owl Moon…

  • Author Matt Ruff and his latest book, The Destroyer of Worlds: A Return to Lovecraft Country

    Entrevista con un autor: Matt Ruff

    Matt Ruff es autor de las novelas 88 Nombres, Lovecraft Country, Bad Monkeys, El Espejismo, Pon esta casa en orden, El loco en la colina y Alcantarillado, Gas y Electricidad: La trilogía de las obras…

  • Author Victor LaValle and his latest book, The Ballad of Black Tom

    Entrevista con un autor: Victor LaValle

    Victor LaValle es autor de siete obras de ficción y tres novelas gráficas. Sus libros han ganado el Premio Mundial de Fantasía, el Premio Británico de Fantasía, el Premio Bram Stoker, el Premio Dragón…

  • Author Dahlia Adler and her latest book, At Midnight: 15 Beloved Fairy Tales Reimagined

    Entrevista con una autora: Dahlia Adler

    Dahlia Adler es editora de matemáticas de día, bloguera literaria de noche y escritora en cada momento libre. Es editora de las antologías His Hideous Heart y That Way Madness Lies, y autora, más…

  • Author James Ramos and his latest book, The Wrong Kind of Weird

    Entrevista con un autor: James Ramos

    James Ramos (él/ellos) es un nativo de Minnesota no binario, sin complejos, que ahora considera a Arizona su hogar. Criado con una dieta constante de ciencia ficción, cómics y literatura clásica…


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...