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Daryl M.

Librarian


Posts by Daryl M.

  • Sarah David-Goff and her debut novel, Last Ones Left Alive

    Interview With an Author: Sarah Davis Goff

    Sarah Davis-Goff was born and lives in Dublin. Her writing has been published in the Irish Times, the Guardian and LitHub. Last Ones Left Alive is her debut novel and she recently agreed to talk about…

  • Dahlia Adler and her book His Hideous Heart

    Interview With an Author: Dahlia Adler

    Dahlia Adler is an associate editor of mathematics by day, a blogger for B&N Teens, LGBTQ Reads, and Frolic by night, and an author of young adult and new adult novels at every spare moment in between…

  • Alix E. Harrow and her first novel The Ten Thousand Doors of January

    Interview With an Author: Alix E. Harrow

    Alix E. Harrow is a part-time historian with a full-time desk job, a lot of opinions, and excessive library fines. Her short fiction has appeared in Shimmer, Strange Horizons, Tor.com, Apex, and other…

  • Tim Mason and his first adult novel, The Darwin Affair

    Interview With an Author: Tim Mason

    Tim Mason is a playwright whose work has been produced in New York and throughout the world. Among the awards he has received are a Kennedy Center Award, the Hollywood Drama-Logue Award, a fellowship…

  • Del Howison and his first novel, The Survival of Margaret Thomas

    Interview With an Author: Del Howison

    Del Howison is an award-winning editor, journalist, fiction author, and actor. He has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award four times (and won it once), for the Black Quill Award twice, for the…

  • Author Casey McQuiston and her first novel, Red, White & Royal Blue

    Interview With an Author: Casey McQuiston

    Casey McQuiston grew up in the swamps of Southern Louisiana, where they cultivated an abiding love for honey butter biscuits and stories with big, beating hearts. They studied journalism and worked in…

  • Author Sarah Gailey and her novel, Magic For Liars

    Interview With an Author: Sarah Gailey

    Hugo award winner Sarah Gailey lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Their nonfiction has been published by Mashable and the Boston Globe, and their fiction has been published internationally…

  • Kris Waldherr and her book

    Interview With an Author: Kris Waldherr

    Kris Waldherr is an award-winning author, illustrator, and designer. She is a member of the Historical Novel Society, and her fiction has been awarded with fellowships by the Virginia Center of the…

  • Seanan McGuire and her book Middlegame

    Interview With an Author: Seanan McGuire

    Seanan McGuire is the award-winning author of the October Daye urban fantasy series, the InCryptid series, and the Wayward Children series. In addition, she writes darker fiction under the pseudonym…

  • Author Yangsze Choo and her latest novel, Smoke and Summons

    Interview With an Author: Charlie Holmberg

    Charlie N. Holmberg was raised a Trekkie alongside three sisters, who also have boy names, in Salt Lake City, UT. She plays the ukulele, owns too many pairs of glasses, and finally adopted a dog. Her…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for Another Fine Mess

    Another Fine Mess

    The Evans Funeral Parlor has existed for almost as long as the Southeastern Texas town in which it's located. It is a generational business, overseen and passed down through the Evans women. There's Ducy, the family's current matriarch, who is the daughter of Pie, who mysteriously disappeared eighteen years ago...
  • Cover image for Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

    Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

    • By: Schwab, Victoria
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In 2020, V.E. Schwab introduced readers to Addie LaRue, a young woman who makes a Faustian bargain to avoid an unwanted marriage in early 18th-century France. In The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, Schwab follows Addie through the centuries as Addie, through her own cunning and strength of will, molds...
  • Cover image for Good Dirt

    Good Dirt

    • By: Wilkerson, Charmaine
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    When Ebony "Ebby" Freeman was ten years old, she was the sole witness of a botched home invasion robbery that resulted in the shooting death of her fifteen-year-old brother, Baz, and the destruction of a priceless family heirloom. The fact that Ebby is the daughter of a prominent Black family...
  • Cover image for But Not Too Bold

    But Not Too Bold

    Dália's life changed the morning the maid found the typewritten note that said: "HIRE A NEW KEEPER OF THE KEYS; URGENT; BEFORE DAWN" Everyone in Capricious House knew what the note meant and who had written it. Its author was the Lady of Capricious House, Lady Anatema, a gargantuan spider/human...
  • Cover image for The Murder of Mr. Ma

    The Murder of Mr. Ma

    • By: Nee, John Shen Yen, Rozan, SJ
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In 1924 London, Lao She, a shy young academic, is summoned to the home of mathematician Bertrand Russell. When he arrives, Russell explains that a friend and colleague, Judge Dee Ren Jie, has been mistakenly arrested with a group of Chinese agitators. Russell is afraid that if Dee’s identity is...
  • Cover image for The Lost Story

    The Lost Story

    • By: Shaffer, Meg
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Fifteen years ago, Jeremy and Ralph disappeared while on an end of the school year field trip to Red Crow State Forest in West Virginia. One moment, they were there, and then they were gone. The forest was repeatedly searched, but no signs of the boys were ever found. And...
  • Cover image for Arthur and Teddy are Coming Out

    Arthur and Teddy are Coming Out

    Arthur Edwards has lived his entire life in the small town of Northbridge in northern England. He grew up there. And he met and married his wife, Madeleine, in Northbridge. Northbridge is where Madeleine and he raised their two children, Elizabeth and Patrick. As with most small towns, regardless of...