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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Willy Vlautin and his newest novel, The Night Always Comes

    Entrevista con un autor: Willy Vlautin

    Willy Vlautin es el autor de cinco novelas: The Motel Life, que se convirtió en una película protagonizada por Dakota Fanning, Emile Hersh y Stephen Dorff; Northline, Lean on Pete, que ganó dos…

  • Author Grant Farley and his first novel, Bones of a Saint

    Entrevista con un autor: Grant Farley

    Grant Farley trabajó como profesor de inglés durante más de veinticinco años y ha impartido clases en una escuela alternativa de Santa Mónica, una secundaria de barrio y una escuela especializada en…

  • Author Sylvain Neuvel and his latest novel, A History of What Comes Next

    Entrevista con un autor: Sylvain Neuvel

    Sylvain Neuvel es el autor de la trilogía "Los expedientes de Themis" y la novela corta "La prueba". Próximamente se estrenará una película protagonizada por John Boyega y dirigida por Gavin Hood. Ha…

  • Author Olivia Campbell and her first book, Women in White Coats

    Entrevista con una autora: Olivia Campbell

    Olivia Campbell es periodista y autora especializada en medicina y mujeres; su trabajo ha aparecido en The Guardian, The Washington Post, New York Magazine y The Cut, entre otros. Su primer libro es…

  • Author Sarah Lagan and her latest novel, Good Neighbor

    Entrevista con una autora: Sarah Langan

    Sarah Langan, egresada de la Maestría en Bellas Artes de Columbia y con una Maestría en Toxicología Ambiental, ha recibido tres veces el Premio Bram Stoker. Una de sus novelas anteriores, "El Guardián…

  • Author Victoria Gosling and her debut novel, Before the Ruins

    Entrevista con una autora: Victoria Gosling

    Victoria Gosling creció en Wiltshire, Inglaterra, y estudió Literatura Inglesa en la Universidad de Manchester. Es la fundadora de The Reader Berlin, que organiza veladas en Berlín y retiros de…

  • Author Anne Youngson and her latest novel, The Narrowboat Summer

    Entrevista con una autora: Anne Youngson

    Anne Youngson está jubilada y vive en Oxfordshire. Tiene dos hijos y tres nietos. Su primera novela, "Me encuentro en el museo", fue preseleccionada para el Premio Costa a la Primera Novela. Su nueva…

  • Author Serena Burdick and her latest book, Find Me in Havana

    Entrevista con una autora: Serena Burdick

    Serena Burdick se graduó de la Academia Americana de Artes Dramáticas en California antes de mudarse a Nueva York para estudiar Literatura Inglesa en el Brooklyn College. Autora de los best sellers…

  • Author C.S. Malerich and her latest novella, The Factory Witches of Lowell

    Entrevista con un autor: CS Malerich

    CS Malerich es la autora de la novela Fire & Locket. Además de escribir, ha impartido clases de mitología a estudiantes de la Universidad de Maryland y se ha interesado por el folclore, los estudios…

  • Author T.A. Willberg and her debut novel, Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder

    Entrevista con un autor: TA Willberg

    TA Willberg nació en Johannesburgo, Sudáfrica, y tiene una maestría en quiropráctica de la Universidad Tecnológica de Durban. Actualmente vive en Malta con su pareja. Marion Lane and the Midnight…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for The Motion Picture Teller

    The Motion Picture Teller

    • By: Cotterill, Colin
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Supot Yongjaiyut knows he is not living his best life. The year is 1996 and Supot lives in Bangkok. During the day, he works for the Royal Thai Mail Service, a job he loathes and for which he knows he has no aptitude. When he’s not at work, he spends...
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    Weyward: A Novel

    • By: Hart, Emilia
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    “The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.”  From: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence by Adrienne RichAltha is a 21-year-old woman who, in 1619, is accused of, and tried for, witchcraft in her small English village. She is a...
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    Stone Blind

    • By: Haynes, Natalie
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    "I only see them for an instant. Then they're gone. But it's enough. Enough to know that the hero isn't the one who's kind or brave or loyal. Sometimes -- not always, but sometimes -- he is monstrous. And the monster? Who is she? She is what happens when someone...
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    The Getaway

    • By: Giles, Lamar
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Karloff Country is a marvel. Modeled on Walt Disney World in Florida, Karloff Country is a slightly smaller theme park/resort complex with a similar number of theme parks as Walt Disney World, but also includes: planned communities for all of its employees, a power plant, vertical farms to provide the...
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    Paperback Jack

    • By: Estleman, Loren D.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    The year is 1946. WWII has ended and Jacob Heppleman is one of the many veterans returning home from the European conflict. For Jacob, home is New York City. Before the war, he wrote detective, western, and war stories for the pulp magazines. He even published a novel that was...
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    Neom

    • By: Tidhar, Lavie
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    A sprawling metropolis on the edge of the Red Sea that is simultaneously a playground of the wealthy and a struggle for the poor. A woman working multiple jobs to survive because she isn’t rich in a place that isn’t kind to someone without money. A young boy, alone in...
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    Gallant

    • By: Schwab, Victoria
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Olivia Prior has lived at Merilance since she was two years old. While Merilance calls itself a school, the truth is that it is closer to an asylum, a prison. It is a place where girls and young women who are not wanted are sent when they have nowhere else...
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    Wrong Place, Wrong Time

    • By: McAllister, Gillian
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    It is a given that, in most mystery novels, someone dies. The death occurs either before, or shortly after, the novel begins. The bulk of the narrative will explore how or why someone died. In her new novel, Wrong Place, Wrong Time, Gillian McAllister finds a new way to approach...
  • 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...