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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Astronomy professor, Emily Levesque and her first popular science book, The Last Stargazers

    Entrevista con una autora: Emily Levesque

    Emily Levesque es profesora de astronomía en la Universidad de Washington. Ha observado durante más de cincuenta noches con muchos de los telescopios más grandes del planeta y ha sobrevolado la…

  • Author Victoria “V. E.” Schwab and her latest book, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

    Entrevista con un autor: VE Schwab

    Victoria “VE” Schwab es la autora número uno en ventas del New York Times y tiene en su haber más de veinte libros, entre los que se incluyen la aclamada serie Shades of Magic (A Darker Shade of Magic…

  • Author Alex Pavesi and his first novel, The Eighth Detective

    Entrevista con un autor: Alex Pavesi

    Alex Pavesi fue librero en Waterstones. Tiene un doctorado en matemáticas y actualmente trabaja como ingeniero de software en Microsoft en Londres. El Octavo Detective es su primera novela y…

  • Author David J. Skal and his latest book, Fright Favorites: 31 Movies to Haunt Your Halloween and Beyond

    Entrevista con un autor: David J. Skal

    David J. Skal es autor de numerosos libros, entre ellos Hollywood Gothic, The Monster Show, Screams of Reason y Something in the Blood. Skal reside en Glendale, California. Su último libro es Fright…

  • Author Lindsay Ellis and her debut novel, Axiom's End

    Entrevista con una autora: Lindsay Ellis

    Lindsay Ellis es autora, finalista del Premio Hugo y videoensayista, y crea contenido en línea sobre medios, narrativa y teoría cinematográfica. Tras obtener su licenciatura en Estudios…

  • Author Elsa Hart and her latest book, The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne

    Entrevista con una autora: Elsa Hart

    Elsa Hart es autora de varias novelas de misterio aclamadas ambientadas en la China del siglo XVIII, incluida Ciudad de tinta, uno de los mejores libros de Publishers Weekly de 2018. Nació en Roma…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for I'll stop the world : a novel

    I'll stop the world : a novel

    • By: Thoman, Lauren
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Time travel is a staple of fiction. For well over a century writers have imagined different ways to propel their protagonists backwards and forwards through time. Sometimes they are merely observers, allowing the author to speculate on past motivations or future developments. But just as often, the protagonist is sent...
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    Camp Damascus

    • By: Tingle, Chuck
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Rose Darling is a high school senior who has lived her entire life in the small town of Neverton, Montana. She’s also grown up attending Kingdom of the Pine church with her parents. Kingdom of the Pine is a smaller church, compared to some others, but it has an international...
  • Cover image for The Legend of Charlie Fish

    The Legend of Charlie Fish

    • By: Rountree, Josh
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Floyd Betts is a bit of a loner. He lives a solitary existence in Galveston, Texas. He works construction on local building projects and rents a room at Abigail Elder’s boarding house. It’s a quiet life, and Floyd likes it. But all of that is about to change.When Floyd returns...
  • Cover image for The London Séance Society

    The London Séance Society

    • By: Penner, Sarah
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Lenna Wickes, and her younger sister Evie, are very different people. Lenna is interested in the world and how it works. She has an interest in science, even though she knows that a young lady in Victorian London is not supposed to be interested in such things. Evie, on the...
  • Cover image for The celebrants : a novel

    The celebrants : a novel

    • By: Rowley, Steven, 1971-
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Two weeks before their college graduation, a group of friends, who have become family during their college experience, must attend the funeral of one of their own. Alec has died of an apparent drug overdose and it shakes them all, Craig, Jordan, Jordy, Marielle, and Naomi, to their cores. Alec’s...
  • Cover image for Final Cut

    Final Cut

    • By: McCown, Marjorie
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Joey Jessup is very good at her job. And it is a job that she really enjoys. Joey is a key costumer and over her career she has worked on almost every type of film, with a number of A-list actors and directors, along with some of the most talented...
  • Cover image for The Wishing Game

    The Wishing Game

    • By: Shaffer, Meg
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    How many of us have books, or series of books, that provided an escape for us as children and, because of that, we continue to love them as adults? How many of us longed to receive an owl-delivered letter from Hogwarts; find a secret entrance at the back of the...
  • Cover image for Our Hideous Progeny

    Our Hideous Progeny

    • By: Mcgill, C. E.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley tells the tale of how Victor Frankenstein challenges the “natural order” and explores the secrets of life itself by creating a being made from the pieces of other men. But what if Victor had chosen another direction for his research? What if, instead of choosing to...
  • Cover image for Going Zero

    Going Zero

    • By: McCarten, Anthony
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    We all know that we are constantly being observed and monitored in today’s world. There are security and surveillance cameras on many homes, businesses, and on the traffic lights at intersections. ATMs and now self-check out machines in retail establishments also include cameras. Purchases, whether online or in a brick...
  • Cover image for The Lies of the Ajungo

    The Lies of the Ajungo

    • By: Utomi, Moses Ose
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    “There is no water in the City of Lies.”Tutu has lived all of his short life in the City of Lies with his mother. Located in the Forever Desert, the City of Lies used to have water. . .but the inhabitants were vanquished by the fierce Ajungo Empire which required...