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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Elizabeth Little and her latest book, Pretty as a Picture

    Entrevista con una autora: Elizabeth Little

    Elizabeth Little es la autora de "Querida Hija", ganadora del Premio de la Crítica Strand a la Mejor Novela Prima, y de dos obras de no ficción: "Mordiendo el Renacuajo de Cera" y "Un Viaje de Lengua"…

  • Author and chemist, Dr. Kathryn Harkup and her latest book, Death By Shakespeare

    Entrevista con una autora: Kathryn Harkup

    La Dra. Kathryn Harkup es química y escritora. Obtuvo un doctorado sobre sus sustancias químicas favoritas, las fosfinas, y continuó su investigación postdoctoral antes de darse cuenta de que hablar…

  • Author Zen Cho and her latest novel, The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water

    Entrevista con un autor: Zen Cho

    Zen Cho es autora de El Hechicero de la Corona, La Reina Verdadera y la colección de relatos Espíritus en el Extranjero. Ganó los premios Hugo, Crawford y el British Fantasy, y fue finalista de los…

  • Maggie Tokuda-Hall and her debut novel, The Mermaid, The Witch and The Sea

    Entrevista con una autora: Maggie Tokuda-Hall

    Maggie Tokuda-Hall es la autora del libro ilustrado ganador de la Medalla de Oro de Parent's Choice, Also an Octopus, ilustrado por Benji Davies. Vive en Oakland, California, con su esposo, su hijo y…

  • Author Rebecca Serle and her latest novel, In Five Years

    Entrevista con una autora: Rebecca Serle

    Rebecca Serle es autora y guionista de televisión, residente en Los Ángeles. Serle codesarrolló la exitosa adaptación televisiva de su serie juvenil Famous in Love, y también es autora de The Dinner…

  • Author Celia Laskey and first book Under the Rainbow

    Entrevista con una autora: Celia Laskey

    La obra de Celia Laskey ha aparecido en Guernica, The Minnesota Review y otros medios. Tiene una maestría en Bellas Artes de la Universidad de Nuevo México y fue finalista del Premio de Cuento para…

  • Author Annabeth Albert and her latest novel, Conventionally Yours

    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 John Scalzi and his latest novel, The Last Emperox

    Entrevista con un autor: John Scalzi

    John Scalzi es un autor de ficción especulativa, bestseller del New York Times y galardonado, cuya obra se ha traducido a más de 20 idiomas. También ha trabajado como consultor creativo para la serie…

  • Author Marie Benedict with her latest novel, Lady Clementine

    Entrevista con una autora: Marie Benedict

    Marie Benedict es abogada con más de diez años de experiencia como litigante en dos de los principales bufetes del país y para empresas de la lista Fortune 500. Es miembro del Salón de la Fama de…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for Middlegame

    Middlegame

    • By: McGuire, Seanan
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Roger Middleton is a rather typical seven-year-old boy. He lives with his adopted parents in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He seems to be exceptionally gifted when it comes to grammar, spelling, anything to do with languages, really. But he struggles with even the most basic levels of mathematics.Dodger Cheswich is not a...
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    Radicalized

    • By: Doctorow, Cory
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Speculative Fiction has a long history of using the tropes of the genre to comment on our world. Ursula K. Le Guin used The Left Hand of Darkness to examine cultural gender constructs. Using the original Star Trek television series, show creator Gene Roddenberry commented on issues like race relations...
  • Cover image for Snow White Learns Witchcraft: Stories and Poems

    Snow White Learns Witchcraft: Stories and Poems

    • By: Goss, Theodora
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    "Fairy tales are another kind of Bible, for those who know how to read them.” 'Red as Blood and White as Bone' in Snow White Learns Witchcraft by Theodora GossTheodora Goss is an award winning-author, a professor of literature and writing at both Boston University and the Stonecoast MFA program. Her debut...
  • Cover image for The Sentence is Death

    The Sentence is Death

    • By: Horowitz, Anthony
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In 2018, readers discovered the first book in Anthony Horowitz’s new mystery series: The Word is Murder. In it, a wealthy woman enters a London funeral parlor in the morning to make her final arrangements. She is found in her home, murdered, six hours later. When disgraced Detective Inspector Daniel...
  • Cover image for The Night Tiger

    The Night Tiger

    • By: Choo, Yangsze
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Ji Lin is a young woman who is working as an apprentice dressmaker by day and secretly working as a “dance instructor” at a dance-hall in the evenings to repay a family debt. Ren is eleven, but tells everyone that he is thirteen. He has lost his entire family, including...
  • Cover image for Holy Lands: A Novel

    Holy Lands: A Novel

    • By: Sthers, Amanda, 1978- author, translator.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Harry Rosenmerck, a successful Jewish Cardiologist, just walked away. He walked away from his family, his career, his life, and everything he knew and loved to start a pig farm in Israel. This sounds like the set-up for a potentially insensitive joke, but it isn’t. Harry is deadly serious, as...
  • Cover image for An absolutely remarkable thing : a novel

    An absolutely remarkable thing : a novel

    • By: Green, Hank,
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    We’ve all done it. We’ve all seen something extraordinary, glanced at it briefly, and then continued on toward our current destination, wherever that may be. We may be in a hurry, we may not. We may be alone, with someone else, or part of a group. But, regardless of our...
  • Cover image for Record of a Spaceborn Few.

    Record of a Spaceborn Few.

    • By: Chambers, Becky.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Becky Chambers has become a name to watch in Science Fiction. She published her first novel, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in 2014 after completing it via a successful Kickstarter campaign, which was later picked up by Harper Voyager and released to a much wider readership and...
  • Cover image for Finding Baba Yaga : a short novel in verse

    Finding Baba Yaga : a short novel in verse

    • By: Yolen, Jane,
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Jane Yolen has been working as an author for over 50 years. She has published over 300 titles, ranging from children’s books to speculative fiction (both fantasy and science fiction), and to nonfiction. She is also a poet, an instructor of writing and a reviewer of children’s literature.Jane Yolen’s books...