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Daryl M.

Librarian


Posts by Daryl M.

  • Tochi Onyebuchi and his adult fiction debut novel, Riot Baby

    Interview With an Author: Tochi Onyebuchi

    Tochi Onyebuchi is the author of the young adult novel Beasts Made of Night, which won the Ilube Nommo Award for Best Speculative Fiction Novel by an African, its sequel, Crown of Thunder, and War…

  • Nicholas Meyer and his latest novel, The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols

    Interview With an Author: Nicholas Meyer

    Nicholas Meyer is an award-winning author, screenwriter and director. His body of creative work in publishing, film and television spans more than five decades. His latest novel is The Adventure of…

  • Clay McLeod Chapman and his latest novel, The Remaking

    Interview With an Author: Clay McLeod Chapman

    Clay McLeod Chapman is the creator of the storytelling session The Pumpkin Pie Show and the author of Rest Area, Nothing Untoward, and the Tribe trilogy. In the world of comics, Chapman’s work…

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

    Interview With an Author: Kelli Estes

    Kelli Estes lived in the deserts of eastern Washington state and Arizona before settling in the Seattle area, which she loves so much she plans to forever live near the water. She’s passionate about…

  • Scott Thomas and his latest novel, Violet

    Interview With an Author: Scott Thomas

    Scott Thomas’ debut novel, Kill Creek, is a classic “haunted house” updated for the 21st Century. It is also a love letter to the horror genre, its authors and readers. Now Thomas is back with his…

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

    Interview With an Author: Shaun Hamill

    Shaun Hamill is a native of Arlington, Texas. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and lives in the dark woods of Alabama with his wife, his in-laws, and his dog. A Cosmology of Monsters is…

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

    Interview With an Author: Jennifer Giesbrecht

    Jennifer Giesbrecht is a native of Halifax, Nova Scotia where she earned an undergraduate degree in history, spent her formative years as a professional street performer, and developed a deep and…

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

    Interview With an Author: Rhys Thomas

    Rhys Thomas is the author of The Suicide Club and On the Third Day. He lives in Cardiff, Wales, with his partner and three cats. His new novel is The Secret Life of Sam Holloway and he recently agreed…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for In Five Years: A Novel

    In Five Years: A Novel

    • By: Serle, Rebecca
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    “Where do you see yourself in five years?” This is a question that almost everyone has been asked at some point in their life. It may give us pause. We may think we know. But the answer we give is always a guess because no one really knows what the...
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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...
  • Cover image for The Final Girl Support Group

    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...
  • Cover image for Razorblade Tears

    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...
  • Cover image for A Psalm for the Wild-Built

    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...
  • Cover image for The Album of Dr. Moreau

    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...
  • Cover image for Mother May I

    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...
  • Cover image for A Master of Djinn

    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...
  • Cover image for The Dictionary of Lost Words

    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...