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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Tim Mason and his first adult novel, The Darwin Affair

    Entrevista con un autor: Tim Mason

    Tim Mason es un dramaturgo cuya obra se ha representado en Nueva York y en todo el mundo. Entre los premios que ha recibido se encuentran el Premio del Centro Kennedy, el Premio Hollywood Drama-Logue…

  • Del Howison and his first novel, The Survival of Margaret Thomas

    Entrevista con un autor: Del Howison

    Del Howison es un editor, periodista, autor de ficción y actor galardonado. Ha sido nominado al Premio Bram Stoker en cuatro ocasiones (y lo ganó una vez), al Premio Black Quill en dos ocasiones, al…

  • Author Casey McQuiston and her first novel, Red, White & Royal Blue

    Entrevista con un autor: Casey McQuiston

    Casey McQuiston creció en los pantanos del sur de Luisiana, donde cultivó una pasión inquebrantable por las galletas de mantequilla y miel y las historias conmovedoras. Estudió periodismo y trabajó en…

  • Author Sarah Gailey and her novel, Magic For Liars

    Entrevista con una autora: Sarah Gailey

    Sarah Gailey, ganadora del premio Hugo, vive y trabaja en Los Ángeles, California. Sus obras de no ficción han sido publicadas por Mashable y el Boston Globe, y su ficción se ha publicado…

  • Kris Waldherr and her book

    Entrevista con un autor: Kris Waldherr

    Kris Waldherr es una autora, ilustradora y diseñadora galardonada. Es miembro de la Sociedad de Novela Histórica y su ficción ha recibido becas del Centro de Artes Creativas de Virginia y una beca de…

  • Seanan McGuire and her book Middlegame

    Entrevista con un autor: Seanan McGuire

    Seanan McGuire es la galardonada autora de las series de fantasía urbana October Daye, InCryptid y Wayward Children. Además, escribe ficción más oscura bajo el seudónimo de Mira Grant. Seanan vive en…

  • Author Yangsze Choo and her latest novel, Smoke and Summons

    Entrevista con un autor: Charlie Holmberg

    Charlie N. Holmberg se crio como trekkie junto a tres hermanas, que también tienen nombres de niño, en Salt Lake City, Utah. Toca el ukelele, tiene demasiados pares de gafas y finalmente adoptó un…

  • T.J. Martinson and his debut novel, The Reign of the Kingfisher

    Entrevista con un autor: TJ Martinson

    TJ Martinson creció a las afueras de Chicago. Obtuvo su maestría en estudios literarios en la Universidad del Este de Illinois y actualmente cursa un doctorado en la Universidad de Indiana en…

  • Anthony Horowitz and his latest Mystery series book, The Sentence is Death.

    Entrevista con un autor: Anthony Horowitz

    Anthony Horowitz es un prolífico periodista y escritor de televisión, además de autor de literatura juvenil y adulta. Los herederos de Doyle y Fleming le han encomendado escribir nuevas aventuras para…

  • Author Yangsze Choo and her latest novel, The Night Tiger

    Entrevista con un autor: Yangsze Choo

    Yangsze Choo es malaya de cuarta generación, de ascendencia china. Se graduó de la Universidad de Harvard y es autora de La Novia Fantasma, que Netflix está adaptando a una serie de televisión. Su…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for Only a Monster

    Only a Monster

    • By: Len, Vanessa
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Joan believes herself to be a typical teenager. She spends her summers in London visiting her maternal grandmother, while her father visits his family in Malaysia. During this visit, she has been volunteering at Holland House, a historic home and museum in Kensington. Holland House is where she met Nick...
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    The Book Woman's Daughter

    • By: Richardson, Kim Michele
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In 2019, Kim Michele Richardson told the story of Cussy Mary Carter and her work as a Pack Horse Librarian in The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek. Now, in 2022,  Richardson returns to tell the next chapter in Cussy Mary’s story, which actually belongs to her daughter, in The Book...
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    One last stop

    • By: McQuiston, Casey
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    A young woman on her way to her first day of classes at Brooklyn College spills coffee on herself just prior to boarding the subway. Another young woman on the train comes to her rescue with a scarf and a kind word. The next time the student boards the train...
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    The Quarter Storm

    • By: Henry, Veronica G.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Vodou priestess Mambo Reina Dumond learned the practices and customs of Vodou as a child from her father, while her family was living in Haiti. She is inhabited by the spirit of Erzulie, which makes her a gifted practitioner of water magic. Reina operates a small business behind her home...
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    One-Shot Harry

    • By: Phillips, Gary
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    The year is 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr. is about to hold his Freedom Rally at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles; William H. Parker is Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department; John F. Kennedy is President of the United States; Pat Brown is the Governor of California; Gas is...
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    The Fervor: A Novel

    Meiko is the Japanese wife of Jamie Briggs, a white US Air Force pilot fighting in World War II. Meiko, and her daughter Aiko, are “residents” of the Minidoka internment camp in Idaho. A few days ago, an unscheduled truck came to the camp. The residents are told to stay...
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    Mickey7

    • By: Ashton, Edward
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Mickey Barnes NEEDS to get off Midgard, the colony planet on which he has lived his entire life. Because staying on Midgard is not an option, he takes the only avenue open to him: he volunteers to be the “expendable” on Midgard’s first outgoing colony ship, the Drakkar. An “expendable”...
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    Secret Identity

    • By: Segura, Alex
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In 1975, the comic book industry is struggling. It has survived, mostly, Frederic Wertham’s criticisms and claims regarding a causal relationship between reading comics and becoming a juvenile delinquent in Seduction of the Innocent. But there have been casualties. Readership is down. Publishers are closing. Writers and artists are left...
  • The City We Became

    The City We Became

    • By: N. K. Jemisin
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    N.K. Jemisin is a multiple award-winning, speculative fiction writer. Currently, she resides in Brooklyn, New York and, as evidenced by her novel, The City We Became, she LOVES the “Big Apple”.Every century or so, a city will “manifest”, it becomes a living thing, an entity of its own. This has...
  • Cover image for Redwood and Wildfire

    Redwood and Wildfire

    • By: Hairston, Andrea
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Redwood Phipps is an African-American girl. Aidan Wildfire Cooper is a Seminole Irish young man. The two are brought together by a hateful act of racial violence, which affects both of them for the remainder of their lives. But both are determined to keep the event from defining them. In...