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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Annabeth Albert and her latest novel, Out of Character

    Entrevista con una autora: Annabeth Albert

    Cuando no está añadiendo nuevas obras a su colección, Annabeth Albert es una escritora de romance del noroeste del Pacífico con múltiples publicaciones. Sus populares romances LGBTQ+ incluyen varias…

  • Author Caseen Gaines and his latest book, Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way

    Entrevista con un autor: Caseen Gaines

    Caseen Gaines es autor, director, educador e historiador de la cultura popular. Tiene una maestría en Estudios Estadounidenses de la Universidad de Rutgers, donde se centró en las representaciones…

  • Author Grady Hendrix and his latest novel, The Final Girl Support Group

    Entrevista con un autor: Grady Hendrix

    Grady Hendrix es un novelista y guionista galardonado que reside en Nueva York. Es autor de Horrorstör, El exorcismo de mi mejor amigo, Vendimos nuestras almas y el bestseller del New York Times, Guía…

  • Author Kate Moore and her latest book, The Woman They Could Not Silence

    Entrevista con una autora: Kate Moore

    Kate Moore es la autora de The Radium Girls, bestseller del New York Times y USA Today, que ganó el premio Goodreads Choice a la mejor obra de historia en 2017, fue elegido el libro de no ficción…

  • Author T.L. Huchu and his latest novel, The Library of the Dead

    Entrevista con un autor: TL Huchu

    TL Huchu (él) ha sido publicado anteriormente (como Tendai Huchu) en el mercado para adultos. Sus libros anteriores, El peluquero de Harare y El maestro, el magistrado y el matemático, se han…

  • Author Shawn A. Cosby and his new novel, Razorblade Tears

    Entrevista con un autor: SA Cosby

    Shawn A. Cosby es un escritor del sureste de Virginia que reside actualmente en Gloucester, Virginia. Sus relatos cortos han aparecido en numerosas antologías y revistas. Su cuento "The Grass Beneath…

  • Christina Rice is the Senior Librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection and author of Mean...Moody...Magnificent! Jane Russell

    Entrevista con una autora: Christina Rice

    Christina Rice es la Bibliotecaria Principal de la Colección de Fotografía de la Biblioteca Pública de Los Ángeles, cargo que ha ocupado durante doce de sus dieciséis años en la biblioteca. Es autora…

  • Author Becky Chambers and her latest novel, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

    Entrevista con una autora: Becky Chambers

    Becky Chambers es una autora de ciencia ficción radicada en el norte de California. Es conocida por su serie Wayfarers, ganadora del Premio Hugo. Sus libros también han sido nominados al Premio Arthur…

  • Author Grant Farley and his latest novel, The Album of Dr. Moreau

    Entrevista con un autor: Daryl Gregory

    Daryl Gregory ganó el Premio de Fantasía William L. Crawford de la IAFA en 2009 por su primera novela, Pandemonium. Su novela corta, We Are All Completely Fine, ganó los premios World Fantasy y…

  • Author Jean Hanff Korelitz and her latest novel, The Plot

    Entrevista con un autor: Jean Hanff Korelitz

    Jean Hanff Korelitz es la autora de las novelas You Should Have Known (que se emitió en HBO en octubre de 2020 como The Undoing, protagonizada por Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant y Donald Sutherland)…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea

    The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea

    • By: Maggie Tokuda-Hall
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    A young noblewoman is betrothed by her parents into an unwanted, arranged marriage. A young pirate struggles to survive and protect his brother from the dangers inherent in the life they have been forced to live. A mermaid is captured and threatened with death because her blood, when drunk, allows...
  • Cover image for Conventionally Yours

    Conventionally Yours

    • By: Annabeth Albert
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    A common theme in novels, motion pictures and television is the fine line between love and hate. One only has to look at William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew (or it’s modern reincarnation 1999’s Ten Things I Hate About You) for an example of supposed loathing turning to love...
  • Cover image for Under the Rainbow

    Under the Rainbow

    • By: Celia Laskey
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In a recent survey, the small town of Big Burr, Kansas has earned the title of “most homophobic town in the U.S.”  The non-profit that conducted the survey, Acceptance Across America (AAA), determines that the appropriate response to their findings is to send a task force to Big Burr. They...
  • Cover image for Upright Women Wanted

    Upright Women Wanted

    • By: Gailey, Sarah
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Esther just watched her best friend die. Beatriz was found to be in possession of “inappropriate” materials, and for that she was hanged in the town square. Esther’s father spoke from the podium about the dangers of “deviance” all the while keeping his eyes locked on Esther.  Beatriz’s death was a...
  • Cover image for Oona Out of Order

    Oona Out of Order

    • By: Montimore, Margarita
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Imagine it is New Year’s Eve, 1982. Oona is 18 years old and will be 19 at midnight as the year changes to 1983. She has her whole life ahead of her, including the type of life altering “big decisions” that face everyone at that age. But, when Oona opens...
  • Cover image for Heart of Junk

    Heart of Junk

    • By: Geddes, Luke
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Hmm, what could the following all have in common: an aging antique mall in Wichita, Kansas, where well established and novice sellers are struggling to keep the doors open in the age of online shopping; a child beauty pageant queen who has mysteriously vanished; and the hosts of a phenomenally...
  • Cover image for Eight Perfect Murders: A Novel

    Eight Perfect Murders: A Novel

    • By: Swanson, Peter
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    The owner of a Boston bookshop specializing in mysteries posts a list of books on the store’s blog. It is entitled “Eight Perfect Murders” and it lists the novels he feels have described unsolvable murders. These are murders in which the killers cannot be connected with their crimes. Years later...
  • Cover image for Ormeshadow

    Ormeshadow

    • By: Sharma, Priya
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    It is often stated that “The meek will inherit the earth.” While that is a nice sentiment, it is not affirmed by history. More often than not, those who hold their tongues and think before speaking, as well as those who avoid confrontation and violence to resolve conflict are the...
  • Cover image for Riot Baby

    Riot Baby

    • By: Onyebuchi, Tochi
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Ella has what she refers to as her Thing. It allows her to see things that have not yet happened. As a young girl growing up in Compton, California, this is more of a curse than a blessing. Ella is rarely happy by the future she sees. And, as she...
  • Cover image for Made things

    Made things

    • By: Tchaikovsky, Adrian, 1972-
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Coppelia is not quite a thief and not quite a con-artist. What she is, or could be if she were living a different life, is an artist. A builder who could create function and beauty from raw materials, but only in a different life. A life where her parents hadn’t...