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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Tod Goldberg and his latest anthology, Eight Very Bad Nights

    Entrevista con un autor: Tod Goldberg

    Tod Goldberg es el autor más vendido del New York Times con más de una docena de libros, incluyendo la galardonada trilogía Gangsterland y Living Dead Girl, finalista del Premio del Libro de Los…

  • Author M. L. Rio and her first novella, Graveyard Shift

    Entrevista con un autor: ML Rio

    ML Rio tiene una maestría en estudios shakespearianos del King's College de Londres y el Shakespeare's Globe, y un doctorado en inglés de la Universidad de Maryland, College Park. Su primera novela,…

  • Translator, Shanna Tan of book Marigold Mind Laundry by Chŏng-ŭn Yun

    Entrevista con la traductora Shanna Tan

    Shanna Tan es una traductora singapurense que trabaja con coreano, chino y japonés. Entre sus traducciones se incluyen "Bienvenidos a la Librería Hyunam-dong" de Hwang Bo-reum y "Lavandería Sonriente…

  • Writer Ryan Love and his debut novel, Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out

    Entrevista con un autor: Ryan Love

    Nacido y criado en la ciudad isleña de Enniskillen, en Irlanda del Norte, Ryan Love es periodista titulado por el NCTJ. Fue el primer editor de espectáculos de Digital Spy y ha escrito para…

  • Performer and writer Kate McKinnon and her debut novel, The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science?

    Entrevista con una autora: Kate McKinnon

    Kate McKinnon es una galardonada actriz y escritora, reconocida mundialmente por su trabajo en cine y televisión. Los jóvenes lectores reconocerán su voz como "Ms. Frizzle" en "El Autobús Mágico…

  • Author Lilliam Rivera and her latest novel, Tiny Threads

    Entrevista con una autora: Lilliam Rivera

    Lilliam Rivera es becaria MacDowell y autora galardonada de ocho obras de ficción: cuatro novelas juveniles, tres libros para jóvenes y una novela gráfica para DC Comics. Sus libros han recibido el…

  • Author Scott Thomas and his latest novel, Midwestern Gothic

    Entrevista con un autor: Scott Thomas

    Scott Thomas es el autor nominado al premio Stoker de Kill Creek, seleccionado por el comité de lectores de la Asociación Americana de Bibliotecas como el mejor libro de terror de 2017, y de Violet…

  • Author Dan Kois and his latest novel, Hampton Heights

    Entrevista con un autor: Dan Kois

    Dan Kois es escritor, editor y podcaster en Slate, donde su trabajo ha sido nominado a dos Premios Nacionales de Revistas y dos Premios del Sindicato de Escritores. Es autor de la novela "Vintage…

  • Author Peng Shepherd and her latest novel, All This & More

    Entrevista con un autor: Peng Shepherd

    Peng Shepherd nació y creció en Phoenix, Arizona, y ha vivido en Pekín, Kuala Lumpur, Londres, Nueva York y Ciudad de México. Su segunda novela, Los Cartógrafos, se convirtió en un éxito de ventas…

  • Author Hildur Knútsdóttir and her latest novel, The Night Guest

    Entrevista con un autor: Hildur Knútsdóttir

    Hildur Knútsdóttir nació en Reikiavik, Islandia, en 1984. Ha vivido en España, Alemania y Taiwán, y estudió literatura y escritura creativa en la Universidad de Islandia. Escribe ficción para adultos…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for The Picture Bride

    The Picture Bride

    The year is 1917 and a seventeen-year-old girl named Willow, who lives with her widowed mother and two younger brothers in a small, rural village in southeastern Korea, is asked by a traveling matchmaker if she wants to get married. The older woman shows Willow a photo of a young...
  • Cover image for Darling Girl: A Novel of Peter Pan

    Darling Girl: A Novel of Peter Pan

    • By: Michalski, Liz
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    We all know the story of Peter Pan, the boy who refuses to grow up. J.M. Barrie wrote and published a play and two books about Peter and his adventures in the early 20th century, recounting how Peter visited the Darling children: Wendy, John, and Michael, and spirited them away...
  • Cover image for Acts of Violet

    Acts of Violet

    • By: Montimore, Margarita
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In early 2020, Margarita Montimore published her debut novel, Oona Out of Order. It followed a woman who awakes every January 1st at a different point in her life. She lives in that year, and in that body, until December 31st, only to awaken the following morning beginning a different...
  • Cover image for Hawk Mountain

    Hawk Mountain

    • By: Habib, Conner
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In the late afternoon, Todd sits on the beach watching 6-year-old Anthony, his son, play in the surf. A man approaches Todd, and, after a minute, he recognizes him. It is Jack, who bullied Todd relentlessly during their senior year in high school. In spite of their shared history, Jack...
  • Cover image for The Kaiju Preservation Society

    The Kaiju Preservation Society

    • By: Scalzi, John
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In early March of 2020, Jamie Gray is unceremoniously demoted from marketing executive to “deliverator” at füdmüd, an internet startup company in New York City. As the COVID pandemic worsens, Jamie struggles to get by until a chance delivery happens to be to Tom Stevens. Tom tells Jamie that he...
  • Cover image for A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

    A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

    • By: Chambers, Becky
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In 2021, Becky Chambers introduced readers to the moon of Panga, where, centuries ago, the civilization’s robots gained consciousness and, en masse, walked off into the surrounding wilderness and were never heard from again. Until the day a robot named Splendid Speckled Mosscap walked up to Sibling Dex, a tea...
  • Cover image for Remarkably Bright Creatures

    Remarkably Bright Creatures

    • By: Van Pelt, Shelby
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    After her husband’s death, Tova Sullivan took a job cleaning the Sowell Bay Aquarium. She works evenings after the aquarium has closed to the public, mopping the floors, clearing the trash cans, and cleaning the glass walls of the exhibition tanks until they shine. As she works her way around...
  • Cover image for The Children on the Hill

    The Children on the Hill

    • By: McMahon, Jennifer
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Monster. The word brings to mind ugly, misshapen creatures wreaking havoc wherever they go. Perhaps the most famous monster is Frankenstein’s monster from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. It’s been over 200 years since the teenaged Shelley created one of the most enduring tales of all time. And over the last two...
  • Cover image for Siren Queen

    Siren Queen

    On a whim, a young Chinese-American girl pays with an inch of her hair so that she and he sister can see Romeo and Juliet at the new nickelodeon in their neighborhood. From that moment on, she has a single desire: to be a motion picture star. Not simply an...
  • Cover image for Never Been Kissed

    Never Been Kissed

    • By: Janovsky, Timothy
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    As Wren Roland celebrates his 22nd birthday with his best friends and roommates, Mateo and Avery, he begins to lament the fact that he has never been kissed. He’s been close, but has yet to experience what his degree in film studies has convinced him will be a life-altering and...