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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Rebecca Serle and her latest novel, Expiration Dates

    Entrevista con una autora: Rebecca Serle

    Rebecca Serle es la autora superventas del New York Times de Un verano italiano, En cinco años, La lista de la cena y las novelas juveniles Al filo de la caída y Cuando eras mía. Serle también…

  • Author: Yangsze Choo

    Entrevista con un autor: Yangsze Choo

    Yangsze Choo es la autora superventas del New York Times de La Novia Fantasma (ahora una serie original de Netflix) y El Tigre de la Noche, una de las favoritas del Club de Lectura de Reese's y una de…

  • Author Kacen Callender and their latest novel, Infinity Alchemist

    Entrevista con un autor: Kacen Callender

    Kacen Callender es el autor más vendido y galardonado de múltiples novelas para niños, adolescentes y adultos, incluyendo la ganadora del Premio Stonewall Honor Book, Felix Ever After, y la ganadora…

  • Author Gareth Brown and his debut novel, The Book of Doors

    Entrevista con un autor: Gareth Brown

    Gareth Brown quiso ser escritor desde muy joven y terminó su primera novela siendo adolescente. Durante los últimos veinte años, ha trabajado en la Administración Pública del Reino Unido y en el…

  • Author Douglas Preston and his latest novel, Fourteen Days

    Entrevista con un autor: Douglas Preston

    Douglas Preston es autor de treinta y nueve libros de ficción y no ficción, de los cuales treinta y dos han sido best-sellers del New York Times. Es coautor, junto con Lincoln Child, de la serie de…

  • Author Emily Ruth Verona and her debut novel, Midnight on Beacon Street

    Entrevista con una autora: Emily Ruth Verona

    Emily Ruth Verona se licenció en Escritura Creativa y Estudios Cinematográficos en la Universidad Estatal de Nueva York en Purchase. En 2014, ganó el Premio Literario Pinch en Ficción. Es nominada al…

  • Book cover of Theda Bara: Her Career, Life and Legend by Rob Liebman

    Entrevista con un autor: Roy Liebman

    Roy Liebman ha tenido una larga trayectoria bibliotecaria, comenzando en las Bibliotecas Públicas de Brooklyn y Nueva York. Fue jefe de departamento en las bibliotecas del Instituto Tecnológico de…

  • Author Aimee Pokwatka and her latest novel, The Parliament

    Entrevista con una autora: Aimee Pokwatka

    Aimee Pokwatka creció en Wheeling, Virginia Occidental. Estudió antropología en la Universidad de Carolina del Norte en Greensboro y obtuvo su maestría en escritura creativa en la Universidad de…

  • Author Jess Armstrong and her debut novel, The Curse of Penryth Hall

    Entrevista con un autor: Jess Armstrong

    La primera novela de Jess Armstrong, La maldición de Penryth Hall, ganó el Concurso de Primera Novela Policial de Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America. Tiene una maestría en Historia de Estados…

  • Author James Patterson and his latest novel, Holmes, Marple & Poe

    Entrevista con un autor: James Patterson

    James Patterson es el autor más vendido del mundo. Entre sus creaciones se encuentran Alex Cross, el Club de Mujeres Asesinas, Michael Bennett y Maximum Ride. Sus obras de no ficción número uno en…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for Only a Monster

    Only a Monster

    • By: Len, Vanessa
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Joan believes herself to be a typical teenager. She spends her summers in London visiting her maternal grandmother, while her father visits his family in Malaysia. During this visit, she has been volunteering at Holland House, a historic home and museum in Kensington. Holland House is where she met Nick...
  • Cover image for The Book Woman's Daughter

    The Book Woman's Daughter

    • By: Richardson, Kim Michele
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In 2019, Kim Michele Richardson told the story of Cussy Mary Carter and her work as a Pack Horse Librarian in The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek. Now, in 2022,  Richardson returns to tell the next chapter in Cussy Mary’s story, which actually belongs to her daughter, in The Book...
  • Cover image for One last stop

    One last stop

    • By: McQuiston, Casey
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    A young woman on her way to her first day of classes at Brooklyn College spills coffee on herself just prior to boarding the subway. Another young woman on the train comes to her rescue with a scarf and a kind word. The next time the student boards the train...
  • Cover image for The Quarter Storm

    The Quarter Storm

    • By: Henry, Veronica G.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Vodou priestess Mambo Reina Dumond learned the practices and customs of Vodou as a child from her father, while her family was living in Haiti. She is inhabited by the spirit of Erzulie, which makes her a gifted practitioner of water magic. Reina operates a small business behind her home...
  • Cover image for One-Shot Harry

    One-Shot Harry

    • By: Phillips, Gary
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    The year is 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr. is about to hold his Freedom Rally at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles; William H. Parker is Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department; John F. Kennedy is President of the United States; Pat Brown is the Governor of California; Gas is...
  • Cover image for The Fervor: A Novel

    The Fervor: A Novel

    Meiko is the Japanese wife of Jamie Briggs, a white US Air Force pilot fighting in World War II. Meiko, and her daughter Aiko, are “residents” of the Minidoka internment camp in Idaho. A few days ago, an unscheduled truck came to the camp. The residents are told to stay...
  • Cover image for Mickey7

    Mickey7

    • By: Ashton, Edward
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Mickey Barnes NEEDS to get off Midgard, the colony planet on which he has lived his entire life. Because staying on Midgard is not an option, he takes the only avenue open to him: he volunteers to be the “expendable” on Midgard’s first outgoing colony ship, the Drakkar. An “expendable”...
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    Secret Identity

    • By: Segura, Alex
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In 1975, the comic book industry is struggling. It has survived, mostly, Frederic Wertham’s criticisms and claims regarding a causal relationship between reading comics and becoming a juvenile delinquent in Seduction of the Innocent. But there have been casualties. Readership is down. Publishers are closing. Writers and artists are left...
  • The City We Became

    The City We Became

    • By: N. K. Jemisin
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    N.K. Jemisin is a multiple award-winning, speculative fiction writer. Currently, she resides in Brooklyn, New York and, as evidenced by her novel, The City We Became, she LOVES the “Big Apple”.Every century or so, a city will “manifest”, it becomes a living thing, an entity of its own. This has...
  • Cover image for Redwood and Wildfire

    Redwood and Wildfire

    • By: Hairston, Andrea
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Redwood Phipps is an African-American girl. Aidan Wildfire Cooper is a Seminole Irish young man. The two are brought together by a hateful act of racial violence, which affects both of them for the remainder of their lives. But both are determined to keep the event from defining them. In...