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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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    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...
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    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...
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    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...