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Daryl M.

Librarian


Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Wil Wheaton and his annotated memoir, Just A Geek

    Entrevista con un autor: Wil Wheaton

    Wil Wheaton es un aclamado productor, narrador y actor que ha aparecido en docenas de películas y series de televisión. Recientemente, interpretó una versión ficticia de sí mismo en The Big Bang…

  • Author Nghi Vo and her book Siren Queen

    Entrevista con un autor: Nghi Vo

    Nghi Vo es autor de La Elegida y la Bella, así como de las aclamadas novelas cortas Cuando el Tigre Bajó de la Montaña y La Emperatriz de Sal y Fortuna, finalista de los Premios Locus e Ignyte y…

  • Eric J. Guignard and his latest book. Photo credit: Jeannette Guignard

    Entrevista con un autor: Eric J. Guignard

    Eric J. Guignard es escritor y editor de ficción oscura y especulativa, y trabaja desde las sombrías afueras de Los Ángeles, donde también dirige la pequeña editorial Dark Moon Books. Ha ganado dos…

  • Author Anthony Horowitz and his latest novel, With a Mind to Kill

    Entrevista con un autor: Anthony Horowitz

    Anthony Horowitz, uno de los escritores más prolíficos y exitosos del mundo, probablemente haya cometido más asesinatos (ficticios) que cualquier otro autor vivo. Varias de sus novelas anteriores…

  • Author Veronica G. Henry and her latest novel, The Quarter Storm

    Entrevista con una autora: Verónica G. Henry

    Veronica G. Henry nació en Brooklyn, Nueva York, y desde entonces ha sido una figura destacada. Se graduó del Taller Viable Paradise, es miembro de SFWA y entrevistadora de Autor Destacado para la…

  • Author Alma Katsu and her latest novels, The Fervor

    Entrevista con una autora: Alma Katsu

    Alma Katsu es la galardonada autora de seis novelas, las más recientes: Viuda Roja, Lo Profundo y El Hambre. Se graduó del programa de maestría en escritura de la Universidad Johns Hopkins y obtuvo su…

  • Author Gary Philips and his latest novel, One-Shot Harry

    Entrevista con un autor: Gary Phillips

    Hijo de un mecánico y una bibliotecaria, Gary Philips ha publicado diversas novelas, cómics, novelas cortas y relatos cortos, ha trabajado en televisión y ha editado o coeditado varias antologías…

  • Author Peter Swanson and his latest novel, Nine Lives

    Entrevista con un autor: Peter Swanson

    Peter Swanson es el autor bestseller del New York Times de ocho novelas, entre las que se incluyen The Kind Worth Killing, ganadora del Premio del Libro de la Sociedad de Nueva Inglaterra y finalista…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for Conventionally Yours

    Conventionally Yours

    • By: Annabeth Albert
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    A common theme in novels, motion pictures and television is the fine line between love and hate. One only has to look at William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew (or it’s modern reincarnation 1999’s Ten Things I Hate About You) for an example of supposed loathing turning to love...
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    Under the Rainbow

    • By: Celia Laskey
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In a recent survey, the small town of Big Burr, Kansas has earned the title of “most homophobic town in the U.S.”  The non-profit that conducted the survey, Acceptance Across America (AAA), determines that the appropriate response to their findings is to send a task force to Big Burr. They...
  • Cover image for Upright Women Wanted

    Upright Women Wanted

    • By: Gailey, Sarah
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Esther just watched her best friend die. Beatriz was found to be in possession of “inappropriate” materials, and for that she was hanged in the town square. Esther’s father spoke from the podium about the dangers of “deviance” all the while keeping his eyes locked on Esther.  Beatriz’s death was a...
  • Cover image for Oona Out of Order

    Oona Out of Order

    • By: Montimore, Margarita
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Imagine it is New Year’s Eve, 1982. Oona is 18 years old and will be 19 at midnight as the year changes to 1983. She has her whole life ahead of her, including the type of life altering “big decisions” that face everyone at that age. But, when Oona opens...
  • Cover image for Heart of Junk

    Heart of Junk

    • By: Geddes, Luke
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Hmm, what could the following all have in common: an aging antique mall in Wichita, Kansas, where well established and novice sellers are struggling to keep the doors open in the age of online shopping; a child beauty pageant queen who has mysteriously vanished; and the hosts of a phenomenally...
  • Cover image for Eight Perfect Murders: A Novel

    Eight Perfect Murders: A Novel

    • By: Swanson, Peter
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    The owner of a Boston bookshop specializing in mysteries posts a list of books on the store’s blog. It is entitled “Eight Perfect Murders” and it lists the novels he feels have described unsolvable murders. These are murders in which the killers cannot be connected with their crimes. Years later...
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    Ormeshadow

    • By: Sharma, Priya
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    It is often stated that “The meek will inherit the earth.” While that is a nice sentiment, it is not affirmed by history. More often than not, those who hold their tongues and think before speaking, as well as those who avoid confrontation and violence to resolve conflict are the...
  • Cover image for Riot Baby

    Riot Baby

    • By: Onyebuchi, Tochi
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Ella has what she refers to as her Thing. It allows her to see things that have not yet happened. As a young girl growing up in Compton, California, this is more of a curse than a blessing. Ella is rarely happy by the future she sees. And, as she...
  • Cover image for Made things

    Made things

    • By: Tchaikovsky, Adrian, 1972-
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Coppelia is not quite a thief and not quite a con-artist. What she is, or could be if she were living a different life, is an artist. A builder who could create function and beauty from raw materials, but only in a different life. A life where her parents hadn’t...
  • Cover image for Steel Crow Saga

    Steel Crow Saga

    • By: Krueger, Paul
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    A prince, a soldier, a detective, and a thief. Four very different people, with very different histories and experiences. There are two things that they all share: they have survived the war that just ended, and during that war they have all suffered significant losses. Over the course of a...