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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Clay McLeod Chapman and his latest novel, The Remaking

    Entrevista con un autor: Clay McLeod Chapman

    Clay McLeod Chapman es el creador de la sesión narrativa The Pumpkin Pie Show y autor de Rest Area, Nothing Untoward y la trilogía Tribe. En el mundo del cómic, su obra incluye Lazaretto, Iron Fist…

  • Kelli Estes and her latest novel, Today We Go Home

    Entrevista con una autora: Kelli Estes

    Kelli Estes vivió en los desiertos del este del estado de Washington y Arizona antes de establecerse en la zona de Seattle, que ama tanto que planea vivir para siempre cerca del agua. Le apasionan las…

  • Scott Thomas and his latest novel, Violet

    Entrevista con un autor: Scott Thomas

    La novela debut de Scott Thomas, Kill Creek, es una clásica "casa embrujada" adaptada al siglo XXI. También es una carta de amor al género de terror, a sus autores y lectores. Ahora Thomas regresa con…

  • Shaun Hamill and his first novel, A Cosmology of Monsters

    Entrevista con un autor: Shaun Hamill

    Shaun Hamill es originario de Arlington, Texas. Tiene una maestría en Bellas Artes del Taller de Escritores de Iowa y vive en los oscuros bosques de Alabama con su esposa, sus suegros y su perro. "Una…

  • Jennifer Giesbrecht and her first book, The Monster of Elendhaven

    Entrevista con una autora: Jennifer Giesbrecht

    Jennifer Giesbrecht es originaria de Halifax, Nueva Escocia, donde se licenció en Historia, se formó como artista callejera profesional y desarrolló un profundo y reverente respeto por el océano…

  • Rhys Thomas and his new novel, The Secret Life of Sam Holloway

    Entrevista con un autor: Rhys Thomas

    Rhys Thomas es el autor de El Club del Suicidio y El Tercer Día. Vive en Cardiff, Gales, con su pareja y tres gatos. Su nueva novela es La Vida Secreta de Sam Holloway y recientemente aceptó hablar…

  • Sarah David-Goff and her debut novel, Last Ones Left Alive

    Entrevista con una autora: Sarah Davis Goff

    Sarah Davis-Goff nació y vive en Dublín. Sus escritos se han publicado en el Irish Times, The Guardian y LitHub. Last Ones Left Alive es su primera novela y recientemente aceptó hablar sobre ella con…

  • Dahlia Adler and her book His Hideous Heart

    Entrevista con una autora: Dahlia Adler

    Dahlia Adler es editora asociada de matemáticas de día, bloguera de B&N Teens, LGBTQ Reads y Frolic by night, y autora de novelas para adultos jóvenes y adultos jóvenes en cada momento libre. Entre…

  • Alix E. Harrow and her first novel The Ten Thousand Doors of January

    Entrevista con una autora: Alix E. Harrow

    Alix E. Harrow es historiadora a tiempo parcial con un trabajo de oficina a tiempo completo, muchas opiniones y multas bibliotecarias excesivas. Sus relatos cortos han aparecido en Shimmer, Strange…


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...
  • Cover image for Radicalized

    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...