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Daryl M.

Librarian


Posts by Daryl M.

  • 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)…

  • Cassandra Lane and her debut novel, We Are Bridges

    Entrevista con una autora: Cassandra Lane

    Cassandra Lane es la ganadora del Premio Louise Meriwether al Primer Libro y editora jefe de la revista LA Parent. Anteriormente trabajó como reportera de planta y obtuvo una maestría en escritura…

  • Author Samantha Silva and her latest novel, Love and Fury: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft

    Entrevista con una autora: Samantha Silva

    Samantha Silva es la autora de la novela "El Sr. Dickens y su Carol" y guionista, y ha vendido proyectos a Paramount, Universal y New Line Cinema. Vive en Boise, Idaho. Su nueva novela, "Amor y Furia…

  • Author JJA Harwood and her debut novel, The Shadow in the Glass

    Entrevista con un autor: JJA Harwood

    JJA Harwood es autora, editora y bloguera. Creció en Norfolk, estudió Historia en la Universidad de Warwick y finalmente se mudó a Londres, lo cual sigue siendo un poco impactante para alguien…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for Good Neighbors: A Novel

    Good Neighbors: A Novel

    • By: Langan, Sarah
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    The first season of The Twilight Zone in 1960 included an episode written by show creator Rod Serling entitled “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.” Serling presented a block of homes, filled with “typical” American families, on a summer evening. There is a bright flash of light, whose origin...
  • Cover image for N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law

    N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law

    • By: Armour, Jody David
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Jody Armour is the Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law at the University of Southern California. He studies issues of race and legal decision-making as well as torts and tort reform movements. He also studies and teaches on the intersections of language, the law and ethics. His latest book directly...
  • Cover image for The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne

    The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne

    The year is 1704 and Lady Cecily Kay has returned to London from her husband’s posting as a consul in Smyrna. Upon learning of her imminent return to the British Isles, Cecily sent a letter to Sir Barnaby Mayne, a renowned collector in London with one of the most expansive...
  • Cover image for Hella

    Hella

    • By: Gerrold, David, 1944-
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    David Gerrold is speculative fiction royalty. His career spans six decades, over which he has won the Hugo and the Nebula awards. He has written more than 50 novels, worked on numerous television series and created cultural touchstones like tribbles (from Star Trek) and the Sleestak (from The Land of...
  • Cover image for The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

    The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

    • By: Zapata, Michael
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    A pirate, a refugee, two pre-teen boys in love with speculative fiction stories, and two adult men who are friends and are each searching for what seems to be missing in their lives. Over the course of nearly a century, these disparate individuals will orbit the missing manuscript of a...
  • Cover image for The Devil and the Dark Water

    The Devil and the Dark Water

    • By: Turton, Stuart
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In a "locked-room" or "impossible crime" mystery, a crime, or series of crimes, is committed under circumstances that appear, at least initially, impossible for said crime to have been enacted. Those same conditions will also seem to preclude the criminal entering or exiting the crime scene.The first “locked-room” mystery was...
  • Cover image for The Eighth Detective

    The Eighth Detective

    • By: Pavesi, Alex
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In the early 1940s, a Scottish professor of mathematics devises a mathematical definition of the murder mystery story and writes seven provocative stories as proof of his theory. He publishes a journal article regarding his ideas and then self-publishes his seven stories in a small volume, entitled The White Murders.Decades...