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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 The Book Woman's Daughter

    The Book Woman's Daughter

    • By: Richardson, Kim Michele
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In 2019, Kim Michele Richardson told the story of Cussy Mary Carter and her work as a Pack Horse Librarian in The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek. Now, in 2022,  Richardson returns to tell the next chapter in Cussy Mary’s story, which actually belongs to her daughter, in The Book...
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    One last stop

    • By: McQuiston, Casey
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    A young woman on her way to her first day of classes at Brooklyn College spills coffee on herself just prior to boarding the subway. Another young woman on the train comes to her rescue with a scarf and a kind word. The next time the student boards the train...
  • Cover image for The Quarter Storm

    The Quarter Storm

    • By: Henry, Veronica G.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Vodou priestess Mambo Reina Dumond learned the practices and customs of Vodou as a child from her father, while her family was living in Haiti. She is inhabited by the spirit of Erzulie, which makes her a gifted practitioner of water magic. Reina operates a small business behind her home...
  • Cover image for One-Shot Harry

    One-Shot Harry

    • By: Phillips, Gary
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    The year is 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr. is about to hold his Freedom Rally at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles; William H. Parker is Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department; John F. Kennedy is President of the United States; Pat Brown is the Governor of California; Gas is...
  • Cover image for The Fervor: A Novel

    The Fervor: A Novel

    Meiko is the Japanese wife of Jamie Briggs, a white US Air Force pilot fighting in World War II. Meiko, and her daughter Aiko, are “residents” of the Minidoka internment camp in Idaho. A few days ago, an unscheduled truck came to the camp. The residents are told to stay...
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    Mickey7

    • By: Ashton, Edward
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Mickey Barnes NEEDS to get off Midgard, the colony planet on which he has lived his entire life. Because staying on Midgard is not an option, he takes the only avenue open to him: he volunteers to be the “expendable” on Midgard’s first outgoing colony ship, the Drakkar. An “expendable”...
  • Cover image for Secret Identity

    Secret Identity

    • By: Segura, Alex
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In 1975, the comic book industry is struggling. It has survived, mostly, Frederic Wertham’s criticisms and claims regarding a causal relationship between reading comics and becoming a juvenile delinquent in Seduction of the Innocent. But there have been casualties. Readership is down. Publishers are closing. Writers and artists are left...
  • The City We Became

    The City We Became

    • By: N. K. Jemisin
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    N.K. Jemisin is a multiple award-winning, speculative fiction writer. Currently, she resides in Brooklyn, New York and, as evidenced by her novel, The City We Became, she LOVES the “Big Apple”.Every century or so, a city will “manifest”, it becomes a living thing, an entity of its own. This has...
  • Cover image for Redwood and Wildfire

    Redwood and Wildfire

    • By: Hairston, Andrea
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Redwood Phipps is an African-American girl. Aidan Wildfire Cooper is a Seminole Irish young man. The two are brought together by a hateful act of racial violence, which affects both of them for the remainder of their lives. But both are determined to keep the event from defining them. In...