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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 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...
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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...
  • 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...