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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Annabeth Albert and her latest novel, Out of Character

    Entrevista con una autora: Annabeth Albert

    Cuando no está añadiendo nuevas obras a su colección, Annabeth Albert es una escritora de romance del noroeste del Pacífico con múltiples publicaciones. Sus populares romances LGBTQ+ incluyen varias…

  • Author Caseen Gaines and his latest book, Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way

    Entrevista con un autor: Caseen Gaines

    Caseen Gaines es autor, director, educador e historiador de la cultura popular. Tiene una maestría en Estudios Estadounidenses de la Universidad de Rutgers, donde se centró en las representaciones…

  • Author Grady Hendrix and his latest novel, The Final Girl Support Group

    Entrevista con un autor: Grady Hendrix

    Grady Hendrix es un novelista y guionista galardonado que reside en Nueva York. Es autor de Horrorstör, El exorcismo de mi mejor amigo, Vendimos nuestras almas y el bestseller del New York Times, Guía…

  • Author Kate Moore and her latest book, The Woman They Could Not Silence

    Entrevista con una autora: Kate Moore

    Kate Moore es la autora de The Radium Girls, bestseller del New York Times y USA Today, que ganó el premio Goodreads Choice a la mejor obra de historia en 2017, fue elegido el libro de no ficción…

  • Author T.L. Huchu and his latest novel, The Library of the Dead

    Entrevista con un autor: TL Huchu

    TL Huchu (él) ha sido publicado anteriormente (como Tendai Huchu) en el mercado para adultos. Sus libros anteriores, El peluquero de Harare y El maestro, el magistrado y el matemático, se han…

  • Author Shawn A. Cosby and his new novel, Razorblade Tears

    Entrevista con un autor: SA Cosby

    Shawn A. Cosby es un escritor del sureste de Virginia que reside actualmente en Gloucester, Virginia. Sus relatos cortos han aparecido en numerosas antologías y revistas. Su cuento "The Grass Beneath…

  • Christina Rice is the Senior Librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection and author of Mean...Moody...Magnificent! Jane Russell

    Entrevista con una autora: Christina Rice

    Christina Rice es la Bibliotecaria Principal de la Colección de Fotografía de la Biblioteca Pública de Los Ángeles, cargo que ha ocupado durante doce de sus dieciséis años en la biblioteca. Es autora…

  • Author Becky Chambers and her latest novel, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

    Entrevista con una autora: Becky Chambers

    Becky Chambers es una autora de ciencia ficción radicada en el norte de California. Es conocida por su serie Wayfarers, ganadora del Premio Hugo. Sus libros también han sido nominados al Premio Arthur…

  • Author Grant Farley and his latest novel, The Album of Dr. Moreau

    Entrevista con un autor: Daryl Gregory

    Daryl Gregory ganó el Premio de Fantasía William L. Crawford de la IAFA en 2009 por su primera novela, Pandemonium. Su novela corta, We Are All Completely Fine, ganó los premios World Fantasy y…

  • Author Jean Hanff Korelitz and her latest novel, The Plot

    Entrevista con un autor: Jean Hanff Korelitz

    Jean Hanff Korelitz es la autora de las novelas You Should Have Known (que se emitió en HBO en octubre de 2020 como The Undoing, protagonizada por Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant y Donald Sutherland)…


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...