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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • 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…

  • Author Kemper Donovan and his two novels, The Busy Body and Loose Lips

    Interview With an Author: Kemper Donovan

    Kemper Donovan is the host of the All About Agatha podcast. A graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School, he worked at the literary management company Circle of Confusion for a decade…

  • Author Chris Nichols and his latest book, Bowlarama!: The Architecture of Mid-Century Bowling

    Interview With an Author: Chris Nichols

    Chris Nichols is a longtime preservationist and senior editor at Los Angeles magazine. For many years, he worked with the Los Angeles Conservancy Modern Committee, serving a term as chairman of the…

  • Author Rebecca Serle and her latest novel, Good Dirt

    Interview With an Author: Charmaine Wilkerson

    Charmaine Wilkerson is the New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake, which was named a Read With Jenna Book Club Pick and adapted as a Hulu streaming series by Oprah Winfrey and Kapital…

  • Author Mallory O’Meara and her latest book, Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood’s First Stuntwoman

    Interview With an Author: Mallory O’Meara

    Mallory O’Meara is the bestselling author of The Lady from the Black Lagoon, which won the 2019 SCIBA award for Biography and the 2019 Rondo award for Book of the Year, Girly Drinks, which won a 2022…

  • But Not Too Bold, a novella by Hache Pueyo

    Interview With an Author: Hache Pueyo

    Hache Pueyo is an Argentine-Brazilian writer and translator. She won an Otherwise Fellowship for her work with gender in speculative fiction, and her work has appeared as H. Pueyo in The Magazine of…

  • Author Edward Underhill and his latest book, The In-Between Bookstore

    Interview With an Author: Edward Underhill

    Edward Underhill grew up in the suburbs of Wisconsin, where he could not walk to anything, so he had to make up his own adventures. He studied music in college, spent several years living in very…

  • Author Jess Armstrong and her latest novel, The Secret of the Three Fates

    Interview With an Author: Jess Armstrong

    Jess Armstrong is the USA Today best selling author of the Ruby Vaughn Mysteries. Her debut novel, The Curse of Penryth Hall, won the Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Book cover for To kill a mockingbird

    TEST: To Kill a Mockingbird

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  • Cover image for Another Fine Mess

    Another Fine Mess

    埃文斯殯儀館的歷史幾乎與它所在的德克薩斯州東南部小鎮一樣悠久。這是一家世代相傳的家族企業,由埃文斯家的女性掌管並傳承至今。現任家族女家長杜西是皮伊的女兒,皮伊在十八年前神秘失蹤…
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    Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

    • By: Schwab, Victoria
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    2020年,V.E. Schwab向讀者介紹了艾迪·拉魯,一位在18世紀初法國為了逃避不情願的婚姻而與魔鬼達成交易的年輕女子。在《艾迪拉魯的隱形人生》中,Schwab跟隨艾迪的腳步,穿越數個世紀,見證了艾迪如何憑藉自己的機智和堅強的意志,塑造…
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    Good Dirt

    • By: Wilkerson, Charmaine
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    埃博尼「艾比」弗里曼十歲那年,她親眼目睹了一起入室搶劫案,這場搶劫案最終導致她十五歲的哥哥巴茲被槍殺,一件價值連城的家族傳家寶也被毀壞。而艾比出身於一個顯赫的黑人家庭…
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    But Not Too Bold

    達莉婭的生活在那天早晨徹底改變了。那天早上,女傭發現了一張打字紙條,上面寫著:「緊急,黎明前僱用新的鑰匙保管員!」任性莊園裡的每個人都知道這張紙條的含義,也知道是誰寫的。它的作者是任性莊園的女主人,安娜特瑪夫人,一個體型龐大的蜘蛛人…
  • Cover image for The Murder of Mr. Ma

    The Murder of Mr. Ma

    • By: Nee, John Shen Yen, Rozan, SJ
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    1924年的倫敦,靦腆的年輕學者老舍受邀前往數學家伯特蘭·羅素的家。到達後,羅素解釋說,他的朋友兼同事狄仁傑法官被誤認為是與一群中國煽動者一同被捕。羅素擔心如果狄仁傑的身份…
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    The Lost Story

    • By: Shaffer, Meg
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    十五年前,傑里米和拉爾夫在西維吉尼亞州紅鴉州立森林參加學年結束的實地考察時失蹤了。前一刻他們還在,下一刻就消失了。森林被反覆搜尋,但始終沒有找到兩個男孩的任何蹤跡。而且…
  • Cover image for Arthur and Teddy are Coming Out

    Arthur and Teddy are Coming Out

    亞瑟·愛德華茲一生都生活在英格蘭北部的小鎮諾斯布里奇。他在那裡長大,在那裡遇到了他的妻子瑪德琳,並與她結婚。瑪德琳和他在諾斯布里奇養育了他們的兩個孩子,伊麗莎白和帕特里克。和大多數小鎮一樣,無論…