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Daryl M.

Librarian


Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Lee Goldberg and his latest book, Murder by Design

    Interview With an Author: Lee Goldberg

    Lee Goldberg is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than seventy novels. His latest novel is Murder by Design, and he recently talked about it with Daryl Maxwell for the LAPL Blog.

  • Author Meg Elison and her book, Foundling Fathers

    Interview With an Author: Meg Elison

    Bestselling writer Meg Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley. She was a Clayton B. Ofstad endowed distinguished writer-in-residence at Truman State University, as well as a…

  • Author Rasheed Newson and his book, There's Only One Sin in Hollywood

    Interview With an Author: Rasheed Newson

    Rasheed Newson is the author of the national bestseller My Government Means to Kill Me, which was selected as a Lambda Literary finalist for Gay Fiction and was named one of the “100 Notable Books of…

  • priya parmer and her book the original

    Interview With an Author: Priya Parmar

    Priya Parmar is the author of the novels Exit the Actress and Vanessa and Her Sister. Her latest novel is The Original, and she recently talked about it with Daryl Maxwell for the LAPL Blog.

  • Vincent Yu and his book Seek Immediate Shelter

    Interview With an Author: Vincent Yu

    Vincent Yu is a sales manager at W.W. Norton/Liveright and the winner of the 2021 Ashley Bourne Prize for fiction from Ploughshares. His work has been published in Prairie Schooner, StoryQuarterly…

  • Author Leah Weiss and her latest novel, The Creek, the Crone, and the Crow

    Interview With an Author: Leah Weiss

    Leah Weiss is an acclaimed southern writer living in Virginia. Her debut novel If the Creek Don't Rise was released in 2017 and selected as Library Reads, Indie Next, and SIBA Okra Pick. It was…

  • Author Meg Shaffer and her latest novel, The Book Witch

    Interview With an Author: Meg Shaffer

    Meg Shaffer is the USA Today bestselling author of The Lost Story and The Wishing Game, which was a Book of the Month finalist for Book of the Year as well as a Reader's Digest and Washington Post…


Reviews by Daryl M.

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    Brokeula

    • By: Seidlinger, Michael J.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.

    James  Sugre is a vampire. He has lived for centuries, but has made some questionable choices. Bad choices, when it comes to investments. Now, he is broke. He has no money and is deep in debt. He can’t even afford his own reflection (they are available for a fee from Vampire Nation, an international conglomerate that both governs and provides for the world’s vampire population).

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    Mazywood

    • By: Due, Tananarive
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.

    Wishes. We all make them, either silently to ourselves or possibly as a breathless whisper as we drop a coin in a fountain. The reason behind them can range from whimsical to deadly serious. And, in the "real world," they are, to quote Douglas Adams, "mostly harmless." In the world of fiction, however, wishes are entirely different. 

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    Another Fine Mess

    에반스 장례식장은 텍사스 남동부의 한 마을이 생긴 이후로 거의 그 역사를 이어왔습니다. 에반스 가문의 여성들이 대대로 운영해 온 사업이며, 현재 가문의 안주인인 듀시는 18년 전 의문의 실종을 맞은 파이의 딸입니다.
  • Cover image for Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

    Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

    • By: Schwab, Victoria
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    2020년, VE 슈왑은 18세기 초 프랑스를 배경으로 원치 않는 결혼을 피하기 위해 악마와 같은 거래를 하는 젊은 여성 애디 라루를 독자들에게 소개했습니다. 『애디 라루의 보이지 않는 삶』에서 슈왑은 애디가 자신의 교활함과 강인한 의지로 여러 세기에 걸쳐 자신의 삶을 어떻게 만들어가는지 추적합니다.
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    Good Dirt

    • By: Wilkerson, Charmaine
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    에보니 "에비" 프리먼은 열 살 때, 집 침입 강도 사건의 유일한 목격자가 되었습니다. 그 사건으로 열다섯 살 된 오빠 바즈가 총에 맞아 숨지고, 값비싼 가문의 유물이 파괴되었습니다. 에비가 명망 있는 흑인 가문의 딸이라는 사실은…
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    But Not Too Bold

    달리아의 삶은 하녀가 "열쇠지기 새로 고용하세요. 긴급! 새벽 전에!"라고 적힌 타자기로 친 쪽지를 발견한 날 아침 완전히 바뀌었다. 변덕스러운 저택의 모든 사람들은 그 쪽지의 의미와 누가 썼는지 알고 있었다. 그 쪽지의 작성자는 바로 변덕스러운 저택의 여주인, 아나테마 부인이었다. 그녀는 거대한 거미와 인간의 모습을 한 존재였다...
  • Cover image for The Murder of Mr. Ma

    The Murder of Mr. Ma

    • By: Nee, John Shen Yen, Rozan, SJ
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    1924년 런던에서, 수줍음 많은 젊은 학자 라오 셰는 수학자 버트런드 러셀의 집으로 불려간다. 그곳에 도착하자 러셀은 친구이자 동료인 디 렌 지에 판사가 중국 선동가들과 함께 잘못 체포되었다고 설명한다. 러셀은 디 판사의 신분이 밝혀지면 큰 파장이 일어날까 봐 두려워한다.