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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Juli Min and her first novel, Shanghailanders

    Entrevista con un autor: Juli Min

    Juli Min es escritora y editora, radicada en Shanghái. Estudió literatura rusa y comparada en la Universidad de Harvard y tiene una maestría en Bellas Artes en ficción por Warren Wilson. Fue la…

  • Author Sara Nisha Adams and her latest novel, The Twilight Garden

    Entrevista con una autora: Sara Nisha Adams

    Sara Nisha Adams es escritora y editora. Vive en Londres y nació en Hertfordshire, de padres indio-kenianos e ingleses. Su primera novela fue "La lista de lectura". Su última novela es "El jardín del…

  • Author Douglas Westerbeke and his latest book, A Short Walk Through a Wide World

    Entrevista con un autor: Douglas Westerbek

    Douglas Westerbeke es un bibliotecario que reside en Ohio y trabaja en una de las bibliotecas más grandes de Estados Unidos. Durante la última década, formó parte del jurado local del Premio Literario…

  • Author Christina Estes and her debut novel, Off the Air

    Entrevista con una autora: Christina Estes

    Christina Estes es una reportera galardonada que ha dedicado más de 20 años a cubrir temas de delincuencia, políticas públicas y economía en Phoenix, Arizona. Sus reportajes se han escuchado en la…

  • Author Jacqueline Holland and her latest novel, The Mystery Writer

    Entrevista con una autora: Sulari Gentill

    Tras dedicarse a estudiar astrofísica, graduarse en Derecho y abandonar su carrera legal para escribir libros, Sulari Gentill cultiva trufas negras francesas en su granja, en las faldas de las…

  • Author Justinian Huang and his debut novel, The Emperor and the Endless Palace

    Entrevista con un autor: Justiniano Huang

    Hijo de inmigrantes en Monterey Park, California, Justinian Huang estudió inglés en Pomona College y guionismo en la Universidad de Oxford. Actualmente reside en Los Ángeles con Swagger, un perro…

  • Author Sophie Wan and her debut novel, Women of Good Fortune

    Entrevista con una autora: Sophie Wan

    Sophie Wan es originaria del Área de la Bahía y ahora lucha contra los inviernos en Filadelfia. Se graduó de la Universidad de California en Berkeley y pasa demasiado tiempo redactando correos…

  • Author Shubnum Khan and her debut novel, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    Entrevista con un autor: Shubnum Khan

    Shubnum Khan es una autora y artista sudafricana. Sus escritos han aparecido en The New York Times; McSweeney's Quarterly; HuffPost; O, The Oprah Magazine; The Sunday Times (Londres); Marie Claire; y…

  • Author Izzy Wasserstein and her debut novel, These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart

    Entrevista con un autor: Izzy Wasserstein

    Izzy Wasserstein es una mujer trans queer que enseña escritura y literatura. Nació y creció en Kansas y obtuvo su Maestría en Bellas Artes en Escritura Creativa por la Universidad de Nuevo México. Es…


Reviews by Daryl M.

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    Star Struck

    • By: McCown, Marjorie
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Cuando los lectores dejaron a Joey Jessup al final de Final Cut de Marjorie McCown, ella había descubierto la identidad del asesino que había matado a la subdirectora Courtney Lisle en el set de una película de superhéroes de gran presupuesto. Había sobrevivido a un intento de asesinato cuando el asesino había...
  • Cover image for The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

    The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

    • By: Clark, P. Djèlí
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Eveen es una asesina profesional. El énfasis en esa afirmación debe recaer en "profesional". Es una asesina reanimada, sin recuerdos y al servicio de la Matrona de Asesinos que hizo posible su segunda oportunidad en la "vida". Es eficiente, discreta y dispuesta a eliminar (el término...
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    A Short Walk Through a Wide World

    • By: Westerbeke, Douglas
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Three sisters gather at what they have decided is a wishing well near their home in Paris. The year is 1885. There are so many terrible things happening in the world that they decide they each will make a wish and sacrifice something important to them by casting it into...
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    The Twilight Garden

    • By: Adams, Sara Nisha
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    There are two residences on Eastbourne Road in Stoke Newington on the outskirts of London. Winston has lived in #79, with his boyfriend Lewis, for several years. Bernice, recently divorced, has just purchased #77 as a new home for herself and her young son, Sebastian. The two houses share a...
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    How to Solve Your Own Murder

    • By: Perrin, Kristen
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Annie’s Great Aunt Frances has always been a presence in Annie’s life. A rather nebulous, undefined presence, but a presence none the less. Great Aunt Frances owns the house in Chelsea where Annie has grown up with her mother. Communication from Great Aunt Frances has always been sporadic at best...
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    The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    • By: Khan, Shubnum
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Fifteen-year-old Sana has just moved to Durban, a city on the eastern coast of South Africa, with her father. Her mother, a victim of cancer, died a few years earlier and her father believes the move to the once grand, now dilapidated, estate that is an odd type of apartment...
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    Women of Good Fortune

    Sophie Wan opens her debut novel with this bit of information:“Sheng nu – ‘leftover women’ – unmarried women over the age of twenty-seven. Later adopted by the internet community to refer to often well-educated women who had passed the appropriate age for marriage.”Wan then goes on to introduce readers to...
  • Cover image for The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    • By: Khan, Shubnum
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.

    Fifteen-year-old Sana has just moved to Durban, a city on the eastern coast of South Africa, with her father. Her mother, a victim of cancer, died a few years earlier and her father believes the move to the once grand, now dilapidated, estate that is an odd type of apartment...

  • Cover image for The Fox Wife

    The Fox Wife

    • By: Choo, Yangsze
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    A detective is approached about discovering the identity of a young woman who is found dead and frozen outside a restaurant. A grieving mother undertakes a search to locate the man she holds responsible for her daughter’s death. As each travels across Manchuria in the early 20th century, it becomes...
  • Cover image for The Book of Doors

    The Book of Doors

    • By: Brown, Gareth
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Cassie Andrews is living a quiet life in New York City. She spends her days and evenings working in a bookshop, and when she goes home each night, more often than not, she curls up with a good book. A set of unusual circumstances in the bookstore result in Cassie...