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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Authors Nathan Marsak and Arnold Hylen and book, Los Angeles Before the Freeways

    Entrevista con un autor: Nathan Marsak

    Arnold Hylen (1908-1987) se formó en el Instituto de Arte Chouinard y encontró trabajo como fotógrafo para Fluor Corporation, donde trabajó desde principios de la década de 1940 hasta la de 1970…

  • Author T.J. Klune and his latest novel, The Bones Beneath My Skin

    Entrevista con un autor: TJ Klune

    TJ Klune es el autor número 1 en ventas del New York Times y del USA Today, ganador del Premio Literario Lambda, y autor de La Casa en el Mar Cerúleo, Bajo la Puerta Susurrante, En la Vida de las…

  • Author Margarita Montimore and her latest novel, The Dollhouse Academy

    Entrevista con una autora: Margarita Montimore

    Margarita Montimore es autora de Acts of Violet, Asleep From Day y Oona Out of Order, que fue un éxito de ventas de USA Today y una selección del Club de Lectura Good Morning America. Tras obtener una…

  • Author Kemper Donovan and his two novels, The Busy Body and Loose Lips

    Entrevista con un autor: Kemper Donovan

    Kemper Donovan presenta el podcast "Todo sobre Agatha". Graduado de la Universidad de Stanford y de la Facultad de Derecho de Harvard, trabajó en la empresa de gestión literaria Circle of Confusion…

  • Author Chris Nichols and his latest book, Bowlarama!: The Architecture of Mid-Century Bowling

    Entrevista con un autor: Chris Nichols

    Chris Nichols es un conservacionista con una larga trayectoria y editor sénior de la revista Los Angeles. Durante muchos años, colaboró con el Comité Moderno de Conservación de Los Ángeles, donde…

  • Author Mallory O’Meara and her latest book, Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood’s First Stuntwoman

    Entrevista con una autora: Mallory O'Meara

    Mallory O'Meara es la autora superventas de La dama de la laguna negra, que ganó el premio SCIBA 2019 a la biografía y el premio Rondo 2019 al libro del año, Girly Drinks, que ganó un premio James…

  • But Not Too Bold, a novella by Hache Pueyo

    Entrevista con un autor: Hache Pueyo

    Hache Pueyo es una escritora y traductora argentino-brasileña. Obtuvo una beca otherwise por su trabajo sobre género en la ficción especulativa, y su obra ha aparecido como H. Pueyo en The Magazine of…

  • Author Edward Underhill and his latest book, The In-Between Bookstore

    Entrevista con un autor: Edward Underhill

    Edward Underhill creció en los suburbios de Wisconsin, donde no podía ir caminando a ningún sitio, así que tuvo que buscarse la vida. Estudió música en la universidad, pasó varios años viviendo en…

  • Author Jess Armstrong and her latest novel, The Secret of the Three Fates

    Entrevista con un autor: Jess Armstrong

    Jess Armstrong es la autora superventas de USA Today de los misterios de Ruby Vaughn. Su primera novela, La maldición de Penryth Hall, ganó el concurso de novela policiaca de Minotaur Books/Mystery…


Reviews by Daryl M.

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    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...
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    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...