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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Tod Goldberg and his latest book, Only Way Out

    Interview With an Author: Tod Goldberg

    Tod Goldberg is the New York Times bestselling author of sixteen novels, including the Gangsterland quartet: Gangsterland, a finalist for the Hammett Prize; Gangster Nation; The Low Desert, a…

  • Author Theodora Goss and her latest book, Letters From an Imaginary Country

    Interview With an Author: Theodora Goss

    World Fantasy, Locus, and Mythopoeic Award–winning author and poet Theodora Goss was born in Hungary and spent her childhood in various European countries before her family moved to the United States…

  • Collage of favorite books

    Daryl's Favorite Books of 2025

    Season’s Readings everyone! As is generally true, there have been some marvelous books published in 2025, and I’m thrilled to share my favorites with you. I’ve listed these books in alphabetical order…

  • Author Travis Baldree and his latest novel, Brigands & Breadknives

    Interview With an Author: Travis Baldree

    Travis Baldree is a full-time audiobook narrator who has lent his voice to hundreds of stories. Before that, he spent decades designing and building video games like Torchlight, Rebel Galaxy, and Fate…

  • Author D.J. Waldie and his latest book, Elements of Los Angeles: Earth, Water, Air, Fire

    Interview With an Author: D.J. Waldie

    D.J. Waldie is a historian of Los Angeles, a memoirist, and a translator. He is the author of Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir (1995), Where Are We Now: Notes from Los Angeles (2005), Becoming Los Angeles…

  • Author Eric Heisserer and his debut novel, Simultaneous

    Interview With an Author: Eric Heisserer

    Eric Heisserer is the Academy Award–nominated screenwriter of Arrival and the creator of the Netflix series Shadow and Bone. He lives in Los Angeles. His debut novel is Simultaneous and he recently…

  • Author Deston Munden and his latest book, Recipes for an Unexpected Afterlife

    Interview With an Author: Deston J. Munden

    Deston Munden is the author of several books, including Tavern, also set in Dargath. Born and raised near the Outer Banks, he can be found writing, cooking, playing World of Warcraft, and cosplaying…

  • Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods! book edited by Richard Wolinsky

    Interview With an Author: Richard Wolinsky

    Richard Wolinsky co-hosted and produced Probabilities, a half-hour radio program devoted to science fiction, mystery, and mainstream fiction, from 1977 to 1995 on KPFA-FM. He took the program solo in…

  • Author Oliver Wang and his latest book, Cruising J-Town

    Interview With an Author: Oliver Wang

    Oliver Wang is a professor of sociology at CSU-Long Beach and the author of Legions of Boom: Filipino American Mobile DJ Crews of the San Francisco Bay Area (Duke Univ. Press, 2015). Oliver is a…

  • La escritora Jennifer O'Callaghan y su último libro, Rear Window: The Making of a Hitchcock Masterpiece in the Hollywood Golden Age

    Entrevista con una autora: Jennifer O'Callaghan

    Jennifer O'Callaghan es escritora y periodista independiente. Ha trabajado como reportera para Metro News, The Sundance Channel, Shaw TV y CKUA Radio, en temas de noticias, entretenimiento y estilo de…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Book cover for To kill a mockingbird

    TEST: To Kill a Mockingbird

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  • Cover image for Another Fine Mess

    Another Fine Mess

    La funeraria Evans existe prácticamente desde que se fundó el pueblo del sureste de Texas donde se ubica. Es un negocio familiar que se ha transmitido de generación en generación entre las mujeres Evans. Está Ducy, la matriarca actual de la familia, hija de Pie, quien desapareció misteriosamente hace dieciocho años...
  • Cover image for Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

    Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

    • By: Schwab, Victoria
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    En 2020, V.E. Schwab presentó a los lectores a Addie LaRue, una joven que hace un pacto fáustico para evitar un matrimonio no deseado a principios del siglo XVIII en Francia. En La vida invisible de Addie LaRue, Schwab sigue a Addie a través de los siglos mientras ella, gracias a su astucia y fuerza de voluntad, moldea...
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    Good Dirt

    • By: Wilkerson, Charmaine
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Cuando Ebony "Ebby" Freeman tenía diez años, fue la única testigo de un robo fallido en su casa que resultó en la muerte a tiros de su hermano Baz, de quince años, y la destrucción de una valiosa reliquia familiar. El hecho de que Ebby sea hija de una prominente familia afroamericana...
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    But Not Too Bold

    La vida de Dália cambió la mañana en que la criada encontró la nota mecanografiada que decía: «CONTRATAR A UN NUEVO GUARDIÁN DE LAS LLAVES; URGENTE; ANTES DEL AMANECER». Todos en la Casa Caprichosa sabían lo que significaba la nota y quién la había escrito. Su autora era la Señora de la Casa Caprichosa, Lady Anatema, una gigantesca criatura mitad araña, mitad humana...
  • Cover image for The Murder of Mr. Ma

    The Murder of Mr. Ma

    • By: Nee, John Shen Yen, Rozan, SJ
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    En Londres, en 1924, Lao She, un joven académico tímido, es convocado a la casa del matemático Bertrand Russell. Al llegar, Russell le explica que un amigo y colega, el juez Dee Ren Jie, ha sido arrestado por error junto con un grupo de agitadores chinos. Russell teme que si se descubre la identidad de Dee...
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    The Lost Story

    • By: Shaffer, Meg
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Hace quince años, Jeremy y Ralph desaparecieron durante una excursión de fin de curso al Bosque Estatal Red Crow en Virginia Occidental. Un instante estaban allí, y al siguiente ya no. El bosque fue rastreado repetidamente, pero nunca se encontró rastro de los chicos. Y...
  • Cover image for Arthur and Teddy are Coming Out

    Arthur and Teddy are Coming Out

    Arthur Edwards ha vivido toda su vida en el pequeño pueblo de Northbridge, en el norte de Inglaterra. Creció allí. Y conoció y se casó con su esposa, Madeleine, en Northbridge. En Northbridge, Madeleine y él criaron a sus dos hijos, Elizabeth y Patrick. Como suele ocurrir en la mayoría de los pueblos pequeños, independientemente de...