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Daryl M.

Librarian


Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author and movie critic Kim Newman and his latest novel, Something More Than Night

    Entrevista con una autora: Kim Newman

    Kim Newman es un autor y crítico de cine popular y respetado, conocido por su aclamada serie de historia alternativa, Anno Dracula. Escribe regularmente para la revista Empire y colabora con The…

  • Author Goldy Moldavsky and her latest book, The Mary Shelley Club

    Entrevista con un autor: Goldy Moldavsky

    Goldy Moldavsky nació en Lima, Perú, y creció en Brooklyn, Nueva York, donde reside con su familia. Es autora de los éxitos de ventas del New York Times "Kill the Boy Band" y "No Good Deed". Entre sus…

  • Author Saraciea J. Fennell and her latest book, Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed

    Entrevista con una autora: Saraciea J. Fennell

    Saraciea J. Fennell es una escritora afrohondureña y fundadora de The Bronx is Reading. También es publicista literaria y ha trabajado con numerosos autores galardonados y superventas del New York…

  • Author Nicholas Meyer and his latest book, The Return of the Pharaoh

    Entrevista con un autor: Nicholas Meyer

    Nicholas Meyer es autor de tres novelas anteriores de Sherlock Holmes, incluyendo La solución del siete por ciento, que estuvo en la lista de los más vendidos del New York Times durante un año. Es…

  • Steven Reigns and his book, A Quilt fo David

    Entrevista con un autor: Steven Reigns

    Steven Reigns es un poeta y educador de Los Ángeles, nombrado el primer Poeta Laureado de West Hollywood. Además de más de una docena de poemarios, ha publicado las colecciones "Herencia" y "Tu…

  • Author Roshani Chokshi and her latest novel, Once More Upon a Time

    Entrevista con un autor: Roshani Chokshi

    Roshani Chokshi es autora de libros comerciales y aclamados por la crítica para lectores de primaria y secundaria, inspirados en la mitología y el folclore universales. Su obra ha sido nominada a los…

  • Brent Spiner and his debut novel Fan Fiction: A Mem-Noir

    Entrevista con un autor: Brent Spiner

    Brent Spiner es actor, comediante y cantante, conocido por interpretar al androide Teniente Comandante Data en Star Trek: La Nueva Generación (1987-1994). Ha aparecido en numerosos papeles de…

  • Author TJ Klune and his latest novel, Under the Whispering Door

    Entrevista con un autor: TJ Klune

    TJ Klune es el autor más vendido del New York Times y USA Today, ganador del Premio Literario Lambda, de La Casa en el Mar Cerúleo, Los Extraordinarios y más. Siendo queer, Klune cree que es…

  • Author Mallory O’Meara and her latest book, Girly Drinks

    Entrevista con una autora: Mallory O'Meara

    Mallory O'Meara es la galardonada y exitosa escritora de La Dama de la Laguna Negra. Cada semana, copresenta el podcast literario "Lectura de Gafas". Vive en las montañas cerca de Los Ángeles con sus…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for Good Neighbors: A Novel

    Good Neighbors: A Novel

    • By: Langan, Sarah
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    The first season of The Twilight Zone in 1960 included an episode written by show creator Rod Serling entitled “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.” Serling presented a block of homes, filled with “typical” American families, on a summer evening. There is a bright flash of light, whose origin...
  • Cover image for N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law

    N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law

    • By: Armour, Jody David
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Jody Armour is the Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law at the University of Southern California. He studies issues of race and legal decision-making as well as torts and tort reform movements. He also studies and teaches on the intersections of language, the law and ethics. His latest book directly...
  • Cover image for The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne

    The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne

    The year is 1704 and Lady Cecily Kay has returned to London from her husband’s posting as a consul in Smyrna. Upon learning of her imminent return to the British Isles, Cecily sent a letter to Sir Barnaby Mayne, a renowned collector in London with one of the most expansive...
  • Cover image for Hella

    Hella

    • By: Gerrold, David, 1944-
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    David Gerrold is speculative fiction royalty. His career spans six decades, over which he has won the Hugo and the Nebula awards. He has written more than 50 novels, worked on numerous television series and created cultural touchstones like tribbles (from Star Trek) and the Sleestak (from The Land of...
  • Cover image for The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

    The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

    • By: Zapata, Michael
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    A pirate, a refugee, two pre-teen boys in love with speculative fiction stories, and two adult men who are friends and are each searching for what seems to be missing in their lives. Over the course of nearly a century, these disparate individuals will orbit the missing manuscript of a...
  • Cover image for The Devil and the Dark Water

    The Devil and the Dark Water

    • By: Turton, Stuart
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In a "locked-room" or "impossible crime" mystery, a crime, or series of crimes, is committed under circumstances that appear, at least initially, impossible for said crime to have been enacted. Those same conditions will also seem to preclude the criminal entering or exiting the crime scene.The first “locked-room” mystery was...
  • Cover image for The Eighth Detective

    The Eighth Detective

    • By: Pavesi, Alex
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In the early 1940s, a Scottish professor of mathematics devises a mathematical definition of the murder mystery story and writes seven provocative stories as proof of his theory. He publishes a journal article regarding his ideas and then self-publishes his seven stories in a small volume, entitled The White Murders.Decades...