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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 Middlegame

    Middlegame

    • By: McGuire, Seanan
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Roger Middleton is a rather typical seven-year-old boy. He lives with his adopted parents in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He seems to be exceptionally gifted when it comes to grammar, spelling, anything to do with languages, really. But he struggles with even the most basic levels of mathematics.Dodger Cheswich is not a...
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    Radicalized

    • By: Doctorow, Cory
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Speculative Fiction has a long history of using the tropes of the genre to comment on our world. Ursula K. Le Guin used The Left Hand of Darkness to examine cultural gender constructs. Using the original Star Trek television series, show creator Gene Roddenberry commented on issues like race relations...
  • Cover image for Snow White Learns Witchcraft: Stories and Poems

    Snow White Learns Witchcraft: Stories and Poems

    • By: Goss, Theodora
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    "Fairy tales are another kind of Bible, for those who know how to read them.” 'Red as Blood and White as Bone' in Snow White Learns Witchcraft by Theodora GossTheodora Goss is an award winning-author, a professor of literature and writing at both Boston University and the Stonecoast MFA program. Her debut...
  • Cover image for The Sentence is Death

    The Sentence is Death

    • By: Horowitz, Anthony
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In 2018, readers discovered the first book in Anthony Horowitz’s new mystery series: The Word is Murder. In it, a wealthy woman enters a London funeral parlor in the morning to make her final arrangements. She is found in her home, murdered, six hours later. When disgraced Detective Inspector Daniel...
  • Cover image for The Night Tiger

    The Night Tiger

    • By: Choo, Yangsze
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Ji Lin is a young woman who is working as an apprentice dressmaker by day and secretly working as a “dance instructor” at a dance-hall in the evenings to repay a family debt. Ren is eleven, but tells everyone that he is thirteen. He has lost his entire family, including...
  • Cover image for Holy Lands: A Novel

    Holy Lands: A Novel

    • By: Sthers, Amanda, 1978- author, translator.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Harry Rosenmerck, a successful Jewish Cardiologist, just walked away. He walked away from his family, his career, his life, and everything he knew and loved to start a pig farm in Israel. This sounds like the set-up for a potentially insensitive joke, but it isn’t. Harry is deadly serious, as...
  • Cover image for An absolutely remarkable thing : a novel

    An absolutely remarkable thing : a novel

    • By: Green, Hank,
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    We’ve all done it. We’ve all seen something extraordinary, glanced at it briefly, and then continued on toward our current destination, wherever that may be. We may be in a hurry, we may not. We may be alone, with someone else, or part of a group. But, regardless of our...
  • Cover image for Record of a Spaceborn Few.

    Record of a Spaceborn Few.

    • By: Chambers, Becky.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Becky Chambers has become a name to watch in Science Fiction. She published her first novel, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in 2014 after completing it via a successful Kickstarter campaign, which was later picked up by Harper Voyager and released to a much wider readership and...
  • Cover image for Finding Baba Yaga : a short novel in verse

    Finding Baba Yaga : a short novel in verse

    • By: Yolen, Jane,
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Jane Yolen has been working as an author for over 50 years. She has published over 300 titles, ranging from children’s books to speculative fiction (both fantasy and science fiction), and to nonfiction. She is also a poet, an instructor of writing and a reviewer of children’s literature.Jane Yolen’s books...