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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author J.M. Miro and and his debut novel, Ordinary Monsters

    Entrevista con un autor: JM Miro

    JM Miro vive y escribe en el noroeste del Pacífico. Su primera novela es Monstruos Ordinarios y recientemente habló sobre ella con Daryl Maxwell para el blog de LAPL. ¿Cuál fue tu inspiración para…

  • Author Luivette Resto and her latest poetry book, Living on Islands Not Found on Maps

    Entrevista con una autora: Luivette Resto

    Luivette Resto estudió en la Universidad de Cornell, donde obtuvo su licenciatura en Literatura Inglesa y una especialización en Historia Latina de Estados Unidos. Posteriormente, estudió con Martín…

  • Author Liz Michalski and her latest novel, Darling Girl

    Entrevista con una autora: Liz Michalski

    Liz Michalski, exreportera y editora, ahora escribe artículos sobre interés humano, vida y salud como escritora independiente. Vive con su familia en Massachusetts, donde le encanta leer cuentos de…

  • Author B.L. Blanchard and her debut novel, The Peacekeeper

    Entrevista con un autor: BL Blanchard

    BL Blanchard se graduó del programa de honores de escritura creativa de UC Davis y fue becaria de escritura en la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Boston. Es abogada y miembro de la tribu…

  • Author Jennifer McMahon and her latest novel, The Children on the Hill

    Entrevista con una autora: Jennifer McMahon

    Jennifer McMahon es autora de diez novelas, entre ellas los best sellers del New York Times "Promesa de no contar" y "La gente del invierno". Vive en Vermont con su pareja, Drea, y su hija, Zella. Su…

  • Author Eddie Robson and his latest book, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

    Entrevista con un autor: Eddie Robson

    Eddie Robson es un escritor británico de comedia y ciencia ficción, conocido por su comedia "Bienvenidos a Nuestro Pueblo", "Por Favor, Invadan con Cuidado" y su trabajo en diversos spin-offs de la…

  • Author Timothy Hallinan and his latest book, Rock of Ages

    Entrevista con un autor: Timothy Hallinan

    Timothy Hallinan ha sido nominado a los premios Edgar, Nero, Shamus, Macavity y Silver Dagger. Es autor de veintidós libros ampliamente elogiados, incluyendo los thrillers de Poke Rafferty sobre…

  • Author Julian David Stone and his latest novel, It’s Alive

    Entrevista con un autor: Julian David Stone

    Julian David Stone creció en la Bahía de San Francisco y finalmente se mudó a Los Ángeles para estudiar cine y luego dedicarse al mundo del entretenimiento. Su trabajo anterior incluye guiones para…

  • Author Paul Cornell and his latest novel, Rosebud

    Entrevista con un autor: Paul Cornell

    Paul Cornell ha escrito episodios de Elementary, Doctor Who, Primeval, Robin Hood y muchas otras series de televisión, incluyendo su propia serie infantil, Wavelength. Ha trabajado para todas las…


Reviews by Daryl M.

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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...