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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Caroline B. Cooney and her latest novel, Before She Was Helen

    Entrevista con una autora: Caroline B. Cooney

    Caroline B. Cooney es la autora más vendida de novelas de suspenso, misterio y romance para adolescentes, con más de 15 millones de ejemplares vendidos en todo el mundo. Su última novela, "Antes de…

  • Jody David Armour and his latest book, N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law

    Entrevista con un autor: Jody Armour

    Jody David Armour es profesor de la Facultad de Derecho Gould de la USC. Forma parte del profesorado desde 1995. Su experiencia abarca desde demandas por lesiones personales hasta demandas sobre la…

  • Jon Wiener and his latest book, Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, co-authored with Mike Davis

    Entrevista con un autor: Jon Wiener

    Jon Wiener es editor colaborador de The Nation desde hace mucho tiempo y presentador y productor de "Start Making Sense", el podcast semanal de la revista. Es profesor emérito de Historia de Estados…

  • Author Chelsea Sedoti and her latest novel, It Came From The Sky

    Entrevista con una autora: Chelsea Sedoti

    Chelsea Sedoti se enamoró de la escritura desde muy joven tras descubrir que inventar historias era más divertido que hacer las tareas escolares. (Sus profesores no siempre lo apreciaron). Ahora…

  • H.G. Parry and her new novel, A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians

    Entrevista con un autor: HG Parry

    HG Parry vive en un piso repleto de libros en la costa de Kapiti, Nueva Zelanda, que comparte con su hermana, un gato, tres cobayas y dos conejos hiperactivos. Tiene un doctorado en Literatura Inglesa…

  • Playwright and screenwriter, Byron Lane and his first novel, A Star is Bored.

    Entrevista con un autor: Byron Lane

    Byron Lane es dramaturgo y guionista. También ha trabajado como periodista y asistente personal de celebridades, como Carrie Fisher. Es originario de Nueva Orleans y vive en Los Ángeles con su novio y…

  • Author Carrie Vaughn and her latest book, Ghosts of Sherwood

    Entrevista con una autora: Carrie Vaughn

    Carrie Vaughn es conocida por su serie de novelas Kitty Norville, éxito de ventas del New York Times, sobre una mujer lobo llamada Kitty, quien presenta un programa de radio para personas con…

  • Author TJ Kline and his book, The Extraordinaries

    Entrevista con un autor: TJ Klune

    TJ Klune es un autor ganador del Premio Literario Lambda y exexperto en reclamaciones de una compañía de seguros. Entre sus novelas se incluyen "En este río me ahogo" y "La casa en el mar cerúleo". Su…

  • Author Gretchen Berg and her first novel, The Operator

    Entrevista con una autora: Gretchen Berg

    Gretchen Berg nació en la Costa Este, se crio en el Medio Oeste y pasó varios años en el Pacífico Noroeste. Ha enseñado inglés en Corea del Sur y el norte de Irak, y ha viajado a todos los demás…

  • Author Grady Hendrix and his latest book, The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires

    Entrevista con un autor: Grady Hendrix

    El galardonado autor Grady Hendrix ha escrito sobre la bandera confederada para la revista Playboy, ha cubierto novelizaciones de películas de terror y enjambres de ninjas para medios como Slate y el…


Reviews by Daryl M.

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    Out of Character

    • By: Albert, Annabeth
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In last year’s Conventionally Yours, Annabeth Albert took readers on a virtual roadtrip, while the country was in lockdown, so that they could join tabletop gamers Alden, Conrad, and Jasper as they made their way from New England to Las Vegas for Massive Odyssey Con West, the annual national gathering...
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    The Final Girl Support Group

    • By: Hendrix, Grady
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Any fan of horror movies knows what the term “final girl” means. A final girl is the person left standing at the end of a horror movie. During the course of the film, she evades the threat, usually losing several friends and family members in the process, long enough to...
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    Razorblade Tears

    • By: Cosby, S. A.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Two young men, who are deeply in love, married, and fathers to a young girl. Two fathers, who cannot accept their sons as they are nor the life they are creating. Two senseless murders that remove any possibility of reconciliation or the chance to say what should have been said...
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    A Psalm for the Wild-Built

    • By: Chambers, Becky
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Centuries ago, on the moon of Panga, the robot workers, who filled the factories and other industrial pursuits of the human civilization, gained consciousness. Rather than be integrated into Pangan culture, as they were offered, the robots chose to leave, en-masse, into the surrounding wilderness. They were never heard from...
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    The Album of Dr. Moreau

    • By: Gregory, Daryl
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    The Island of Dr. Moreau was H.G. Wells’ third novel and was first published in 1896. It recounts the experiences of a shipwreck victim who finds himself on an island populated by animals that have been modified by the titular Dr. Moreau, using scientific means, to become human/animal hybrids who...
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    Mother May I

    • By: Jackson, Joshilyn
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    It happens in an instant. While Bree Cabbat watches her eldest daughter rehearse a school production of Grease, her infant son, Robert, sleeps in the seat next to her in the balcony of the school’s theatre. One moment he is there, the next he is gone. In his place is...
  • Cover image for A Master of Djinn

    A Master of Djinn

    • By: Clark, P. Djèli
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In Cairo in the 1870’s, an inventor and investigator of mysticism named al-Jahiz made a literal breakthrough unlike any other. He pierced the boundaries between our world and other worlds, allowing magic to bleed into ours. In the process, al-Jahiz was lost to another dimension before the rupture between worlds...
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    The Dictionary of Lost Words

    • By: Williams, Pip
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    According to their website, the Oxford English Dictionary “is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.” Serially published in portions, or fascicles, the first fascicle, covering “A to...
  • Cover image for Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder

    Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder

    • By: Willberg, T. A.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Imagine the following:  A chilling murder, a secret detective agency with offices located in a myriad of tunnels located beneath London, and a young apprentice determined to find the killer in order to clear one of her closest friends of the murder. In her debut novel, which is the beginning...