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Daryl M.

Librarian


Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Juli Min and her first novel, Shanghailanders

    Interview With an Author: Juli Min

    Juli Min is a writer and editor based in Shanghai. She studied Russian and comparative literature at Harvard University, and she holds an MFA in fiction from Warren Wilson. She was the founding editor…

  • Author Sara Nisha Adams and her latest novel, The Twilight Garden

    Interview With an Author: Sara Nisha Adams

    Sara Nisha Adams is a writer and editor. She lives in London and was born in Hertfordshire to Indian-Kenyan and English parents. Her first novel was The Reading List. Her latest novel is The Twilight…

  • Author Douglas Westerbeke and his latest book, A Short Walk Through a Wide World

    Interview With an Author: Douglas Westerbek

    Douglas Westerbeke is a librarian who lives in Ohio and works at one of the largest libraries in the US. He has spent the last decade on the local panel of the International Dublin Literary Award…

  • Author Christina Estes and her debut novel, Off the Air

    Interview With an Author: Christina Estes

    Christina Estes is an award-winning reporter who has spent more than 20 years covering crime, public policy, and business in Phoenix, Arizona. Her reporting has been heard on National Public Radio…

  • Author Jacqueline Holland and her latest novel, The Mystery Writer

    Interview With an Author: Sulari Gentill

    After setting out to study astrophysics, graduating in law and then abandoning her legal career to write books, Sulari Gentill now grows French black truffles on her farm in the foothills of the Snowy…

  • Author Justinian Huang and his debut novel, The Emperor and the Endless Palace

    Interview With an Author: Justinian Huang

    Born to immigrants in Monterey Park, California, Justinian Huang studied English at Pomona College and screenwriting at the University of Oxford. He is now based in Los Angeles with Swagger, a…

  • Author Sophie Wan and her debut novel, Women of Good Fortune

    Interview With an Author: Sophie Wan

    Sophie Wan is a Bay Area native who is now battling the winters in Philadelphia. She graduated from UC Berkeley and spends far too much time drafting emails and drinking tea. Women of Good Fortune is…

  • Author Shubnum Khan and her debut novel, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    Interview With an Author: Shubnum Khan

    Shubnum Khan is a South African author and artist. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times; McSweeney’s Quarterly; HuffPost; O, The Oprah Magazine; The Sunday Times (London); Marie Claire; and…

  • Author Izzy Wasserstein and her debut novel, These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart

    Interview With an Author: Izzy Wasserstein

    Izzy Wasserstein is a queer, trans woman who teaches writing and literature. She was born and raised in Kansas and received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Mexico. She is the…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for The Murder of Mr. Ma

    The Murder of Mr. Ma

    • By: Nee, John Shen Yen, Rozan, SJ
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Năm 1924 tại London, Lao She, một học giả trẻ nhút nhát, được triệu đến nhà của nhà toán học Bertrand Russell. Khi đến nơi, Russell giải thích rằng một người bạn và đồng nghiệp của anh, Thẩm phán Dee Ren Jie, đã bị bắt nhầm cùng với một nhóm người Trung Quốc kích động. Russell lo sợ rằng nếu danh tính của Dee bị bại lộ...
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    The Lost Story

    • By: Shaffer, Meg
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Mười lăm năm trước, Jeremy và Ralph mất tích trong chuyến đi thực tế cuối năm học đến khu rừng Red Crow State Forest ở Tây Virginia. Một khoảnh khắc trước, họ còn ở đó, rồi họ biến mất. Khu rừng đã được tìm kiếm nhiều lần, nhưng không bao giờ tìm thấy dấu vết nào của hai cậu bé. Và...
  • Cover image for Arthur and Teddy are Coming Out

    Arthur and Teddy are Coming Out

    Arthur Edwards đã sống trọn đời mình ở thị trấn nhỏ Northbridge thuộc miền bắc nước Anh. Ông lớn lên ở đó. Và ông đã gặp gỡ và kết hôn với vợ mình, Madeleine, cũng ở Northbridge. Northbridge là nơi Madeleine và ông nuôi dạy hai người con, Elizabeth và Patrick. Cũng như hầu hết các thị trấn nhỏ khác, bất kể...
  • Cover image for Star Struck

    Star Struck

    • By: McCown, Marjorie
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Khi độc giả chia tay Joey Jessup ở cuối cuốn "The Final Cut" của Marjorie McCown, cô đã phát hiện ra danh tính của kẻ sát nhân đã giết chết trợ lý đạo diễn Courtney Lisle trên phim trường một bộ phim siêu anh hùng kinh phí lớn. Cô đã sống sót sau một vụ ám sát hụt khi kẻ sát nhân...
  • Cover image for The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

    The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

    • By: Clark, P. Djèlí
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Eveen là một sát thủ chuyên nghiệp. Điều cần nhấn mạnh ở đây là từ "chuyên nghiệp". Cô ta là một sát thủ được hồi sinh, bị xóa sạch ký ức và phục vụ cho Nữ chúa Sát thủ, người đã cho cô ta cơ hội "sống" lần thứ hai. Cô ta làm việc hiệu quả, kín đáo và sẵn sàng thủ tiêu (thuật ngữ...
  • Cover image for A Short Walk Through a Wide World

    A Short Walk Through a Wide World

    • By: Westerbeke, Douglas
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Three sisters gather at what they have decided is a wishing well near their home in Paris. The year is 1885. There are so many terrible things happening in the world that they decide they each will make a wish and sacrifice something important to them by casting it into...
  • Cover image for The Twilight Garden

    The Twilight Garden

    • By: Adams, Sara Nisha
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    There are two residences on Eastbourne Road in Stoke Newington on the outskirts of London. Winston has lived in #79, with his boyfriend Lewis, for several years. Bernice, recently divorced, has just purchased #77 as a new home for herself and her young son, Sebastian. The two houses share a...
  • Cover image for How to Solve Your Own Murder

    How to Solve Your Own Murder

    • By: Perrin, Kristen
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Annie’s Great Aunt Frances has always been a presence in Annie’s life. A rather nebulous, undefined presence, but a presence none the less. Great Aunt Frances owns the house in Chelsea where Annie has grown up with her mother. Communication from Great Aunt Frances has always been sporadic at best...
  • Cover image for The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    • By: Khan, Shubnum
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Fifteen-year-old Sana has just moved to Durban, a city on the eastern coast of South Africa, with her father. Her mother, a victim of cancer, died a few years earlier and her father believes the move to the once grand, now dilapidated, estate that is an odd type of apartment...