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Daryl M.

Librarian


Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Michael Seth Starr and his latest book, Nothin' Comes Easy: The Life of Rodney Dangerfield

    Interview With an Author: Michael Seth Starr

    Michael Seth Starr covered television at the New York Post as a reporter, columnist, critic, and editor for over 28 years. He has written a filmography of Peter Sellers and biographies of Don Rickles…

  • Author Kate Maruyama and her latest novel, Alterations

    Interview With an Author: Kate Maruyama

    Kate Maruyama was raised on books and weaned on movies in a small New England town. She is the author of The Collective, Harrowgate and Bleak Houses. She writes, teaches, cooks, and eats in Los…

  • Author Ava Morgyn and her latest novel, The Bane Witch

    Interview With an Author: Ava Morgyn

    Ava Morgyn grew up falling in love with all the wrong characters in all the wrong stories, then studied English Writing & Rhetoric at St. Edward's University. She is a lover of witchcraft, tarot, and…

  • Poet Karen Rigby and latest collection of poems, Fabulosa

    Interview With a Poet: Karen Rigby

    Karen Rigby is the author of Chinoiserie, which won a 2011 Sawtooth Poetry Prize. A National Endowment for the Arts literature fellow, her poems have been published in journals such as The London…

  • Author Aimee Pokwatka and his first novel, Knife Skills For Beginners

    Interview With an Author: Orlando Murrin

    After being hurled into the culinary limelight on BBC's Masterchef show, Orlando Murrin became editor of BBC Good Food magazine before setting up a gastronomic guesthouse in the southwest of France…

  • Authors Nathan Marsak and Arnold Hylen and book, Los Angeles Before the Freeways

    Interview With an Author: Nathan Marsak

    Arnold Hylen (1908–1987) trained at the Chouinard Art Institute, and found work as a photographer for the Fluor Corporation, where he worked from the early 1940s into the 1970s. During that period, he…

  • Author T.J. Klune and his latest novel, The Bones Beneath My Skin

    Interview With an Author: T.J. Klune

    T.J. Klune is the #1 New York Times and #1 USA Today bestselling, Lambda Literary Award-winning author of The House in the Cerulean Sea, Under the Whispering Door, In the Lives of Puppets, the Green…

  • Author Margarita Montimore and her latest novel, The Dollhouse Academy

    Interview With an Author: Margarita Montimore

    Margarita Montimore is the author of Acts of Violet, Asleep From Day, and Oona Out of Order, which was a USA Today bestseller and Good Morning America Book Club pick. After receiving a BFA in creative…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for A Gentleman's Murder

    A Gentleman's Murder

    • By: Huang, Christopher.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In Great Britain, the years immediately following WWI were a period of great change. New technologies were finding their way into people’s everyday lives. Women began to voice their dissatisfaction with being essentially second-class citizens and unable to vote. And the men who survived serving in WWI returned to their...
  • Cover image for The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter

    The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter

    • By: Goss, Theodora
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Many classic horror novels, including Frankenstein, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde and The Island of Dr. Moreau, have almost no female characters. If there is a woman included, often she is relegated to being a servant or, more often, a victim. She is rarely featured as...
  • Cover image for A Closed and Common Orbit

    A Closed and Common Orbit

    • By: Chambers, Becky,
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Published last year, A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers is a breath of fresh air in the genre of science fiction. Sci-fi has long been languishing in multiple dystopian visions exploring just how wrong our world, and many others, could possibly go. A Long Way...