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Daryl M.

Librarian


Posts by Daryl M.

  • Writer Ryan Love and his debut novel, Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out

    Interview With an Author: Ryan Love

    Born and raised in the island town of Enniskillen in Northern Ireland, Ryan Love is a NCTJ-qualified journalist. He was the first Showbiz Editor at Digital Spy and has written for publications…

  • Performer and writer Kate McKinnon and her debut novel, The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science?

    Interview With an Author: Kate McKinnon

    Kate McKinnon is an award-winning performer and writer who is celebrated globally for her work in film and television. Young readers will recognize her voice role as "Ms. Frizzle" in The Magic School…

  • Author Lilliam Rivera and her latest novel, Tiny Threads

    Interview With an Author: Lilliam Rivera

    Lilliam Rivera is a MacDowell Fellow and an award-winning author of eight previous works of fiction: four young adult novels, three middle-grade books, and a graphic novel for DC Comics. Her books…

  • Author Scott Thomas and his latest novel, Midwestern Gothic

    Interview With an Author: Scott Thomas

    Scott Thomas is the Stoker-nominated author of Kill Creek, which was selected by the American Library Association's reader committee as the top horror book of 2017, and of Violet, which was praised by…

  • Author Dan Kois and his latest novel, Hampton Heights

    Interview With an Author: Dan Kois

    Dan Kois is a writer, editor, and podcaster at Slate, where his work has been nominated for two National Magazine Awards and two Writers Guild Awards. He’s the author of the novel Vintage…

  • Author Peng Shepherd and her latest novel, All This & More

    Interview With an Author: Peng Shepherd

    Peng Shepherd was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, and has lived in Beijing, Kuala Lumpur, London, New York, and Mexico City. Her second novel, The Cartographers, became a national bestseller, was…

  • Author Hildur Knútsdóttir and her latest novel, The Night Guest

    Interview With an Author: Hildur Knútsdóttir

    Hildur Knútsdóttir was born in Reykjavík, Iceland, in 1984. She has lived in Spain, Germany, and Taiwan and studied literature and creative writing at The University of Iceland. She writes fiction…

  • Author Jonathan Strahan and his latest anthology, New Adventures in Space Opera

    Interview With Editor Jonathan Strahan

    Jonathan Strahan is an award-winning editor, podcaster, critic, and publisher from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He has edited or co-edited more than seventy anthologies and twenty short story…

  • Author P. Djèlí Clark and his latest novel, The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

    Interview With an Author: P. Djèlí Clark

    Born in New York and raised mostly in Houston, P. Djèlí Clark (he/him) spent the formative years of his life in his parents' homeland, Trinidad and Tobago. He is the author of the novel A Master of…

  • Author Chris Nashawaty and his latest book, The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982

    Interview With an Author: Chris Nashawaty

    Chris Nashawaty is a writer, editor, and former Entertainment Weekly film critic. He is the author of Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story and his work has appeared in Esquire…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for Real Easy

    Real Easy

    • By: Rutkoski, Marie
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    One woman murdered. Another woman missing. A police detective traumatized by her recent past. An unidentified killer. Was this their first victim or the latest in a series of murders? Will they strike again? If so, when?In Real Easy, Marie Rutkoski, who has been known until now for her outstanding...
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    The Mary Shelley Club

    • By: Moldavsky, Goldy
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Last year, Rachel Chavez survived a home invasion. In an attempt to provide her with a new start, her mother, who teaches at Manchester Prep, an affluent Manhattan high school, moves them from their Long Island house to a Brooklyn apartment and enrolls Rachel at Manchester Prep.Since the attack, Rachel...
  • Cover image for Under the Whispering Door

    Under the Whispering Door

    Wallace Price is a successful, driven attorney, and a founding partner of a powerful law firm. He is a person of privilege with everything he wants or needs, and then suddenly, he isn’t. Wallace dies unexpectedly. He was not particularly old and was in fairly good health, although his heart...
  • Cover image for A Quilt for David

    A Quilt for David

    • By: Reigns, Steven
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    On September 3, 1990, Dr. David Acer, a dentist who worked in Jensen Beach, Florida, died from complications from AIDS. Four days after his death, Kimberly Bergalis, a young woman who was also HIV+, accused Dr. Acer of infecting her with the AIDS virus during a recent visit to his...
  • Cover image for Out of body

    Out of body

    • By: Ford, Jeffrey, 1955-
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    A small-town librarian, a senseless killing and a centuries-old horror have been preying on a community for over a hundred years. These are the building blocks used by Jeffrey Ford as a foundation for his chilling horror novella Out of Body.On his way to work as the librarian at his...
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    The Extraordinaries

    Nick Bell is far from an ordinary teen. He experiences attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and is required to take daily medication. Two years ago, his mother was killed in a bank robbery, leaving him and his father to reconstruct their lives together. He met his best friend, Seth Gray...
  • Cover image for In Five Years: A Novel

    In Five Years: A Novel

    • By: Serle, Rebecca
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    “Where do you see yourself in five years?” This is a question that almost everyone has been asked at some point in their life. It may give us pause. We may think we know. But the answer we give is always a guess because no one really knows what the...