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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Joshilyn Jackson and her latest novel, Mother May I

    Entrevista con un autor: Joshilyn Jackson

    Joshilyn Jackson es autora de nueve novelas superventas del New York Times, entre ellas "Dioses en Alabama" y "Casi Hermanas". Sus libros se han traducido a una docena de idiomas. Ex actriz, Jackson…

  • Author W. S. Winslow and her first novel, The Northern Reach

    Entrevista con un autor: WS Winslow

    WS Winslow nació y creció en Maine, pero trabajó en Boston, Nueva York y San Francisco. Originaria de Maine de novena generación, ahora reside en un pequeño pueblo del este de Estados Unidos la mayor…

  • Author Willy Vlautin and his newest novel, The Night Always Comes

    Entrevista con un autor: Willy Vlautin

    Willy Vlautin es el autor de cinco novelas: The Motel Life, que se convirtió en una película protagonizada por Dakota Fanning, Emile Hersh y Stephen Dorff; Northline, Lean on Pete, que ganó dos…

  • Author Grant Farley and his first novel, Bones of a Saint

    Entrevista con un autor: Grant Farley

    Grant Farley trabajó como profesor de inglés durante más de veinticinco años y ha impartido clases en una escuela alternativa de Santa Mónica, una secundaria de barrio y una escuela especializada en…

  • Author Sylvain Neuvel and his latest novel, A History of What Comes Next

    Entrevista con un autor: Sylvain Neuvel

    Sylvain Neuvel es el autor de la trilogía "Los expedientes de Themis" y la novela corta "La prueba". Próximamente se estrenará una película protagonizada por John Boyega y dirigida por Gavin Hood. Ha…

  • Author Olivia Campbell and her first book, Women in White Coats

    Entrevista con una autora: Olivia Campbell

    Olivia Campbell es periodista y autora especializada en medicina y mujeres; su trabajo ha aparecido en The Guardian, The Washington Post, New York Magazine y The Cut, entre otros. Su primer libro es…

  • Author Sarah Lagan and her latest novel, Good Neighbor

    Entrevista con una autora: Sarah Langan

    Sarah Langan, egresada de la Maestría en Bellas Artes de Columbia y con una Maestría en Toxicología Ambiental, ha recibido tres veces el Premio Bram Stoker. Una de sus novelas anteriores, "El Guardián…

  • Author Victoria Gosling and her debut novel, Before the Ruins

    Entrevista con una autora: Victoria Gosling

    Victoria Gosling creció en Wiltshire, Inglaterra, y estudió Literatura Inglesa en la Universidad de Manchester. Es la fundadora de The Reader Berlin, que organiza veladas en Berlín y retiros de…

  • Author Anne Youngson and her latest novel, The Narrowboat Summer

    Entrevista con una autora: Anne Youngson

    Anne Youngson está jubilada y vive en Oxfordshire. Tiene dos hijos y tres nietos. Su primera novela, "Me encuentro en el museo", fue preseleccionada para el Premio Costa a la Primera Novela. Su nueva…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for I'll stop the world : a novel

    I'll stop the world : a novel

    • By: Thoman, Lauren
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Time travel is a staple of fiction. For well over a century writers have imagined different ways to propel their protagonists backwards and forwards through time. Sometimes they are merely observers, allowing the author to speculate on past motivations or future developments. But just as often, the protagonist is sent...
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    Camp Damascus

    • By: Tingle, Chuck
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Rose Darling is a high school senior who has lived her entire life in the small town of Neverton, Montana. She’s also grown up attending Kingdom of the Pine church with her parents. Kingdom of the Pine is a smaller church, compared to some others, but it has an international...
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    The Legend of Charlie Fish

    • By: Rountree, Josh
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Floyd Betts is a bit of a loner. He lives a solitary existence in Galveston, Texas. He works construction on local building projects and rents a room at Abigail Elder’s boarding house. It’s a quiet life, and Floyd likes it. But all of that is about to change.When Floyd returns...
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    The London Séance Society

    • By: Penner, Sarah
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Lenna Wickes, and her younger sister Evie, are very different people. Lenna is interested in the world and how it works. She has an interest in science, even though she knows that a young lady in Victorian London is not supposed to be interested in such things. Evie, on the...
  • Cover image for The celebrants : a novel

    The celebrants : a novel

    • By: Rowley, Steven, 1971-
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Two weeks before their college graduation, a group of friends, who have become family during their college experience, must attend the funeral of one of their own. Alec has died of an apparent drug overdose and it shakes them all, Craig, Jordan, Jordy, Marielle, and Naomi, to their cores. Alec’s...
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    Final Cut

    • By: McCown, Marjorie
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Joey Jessup is very good at her job. And it is a job that she really enjoys. Joey is a key costumer and over her career she has worked on almost every type of film, with a number of A-list actors and directors, along with some of the most talented...
  • Cover image for The Wishing Game

    The Wishing Game

    • By: Shaffer, Meg
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    How many of us have books, or series of books, that provided an escape for us as children and, because of that, we continue to love them as adults? How many of us longed to receive an owl-delivered letter from Hogwarts; find a secret entrance at the back of the...
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    Our Hideous Progeny

    • By: Mcgill, C. E.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley tells the tale of how Victor Frankenstein challenges the “natural order” and explores the secrets of life itself by creating a being made from the pieces of other men. But what if Victor had chosen another direction for his research? What if, instead of choosing to...
  • Cover image for Going Zero

    Going Zero

    • By: McCarten, Anthony
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    We all know that we are constantly being observed and monitored in today’s world. There are security and surveillance cameras on many homes, businesses, and on the traffic lights at intersections. ATMs and now self-check out machines in retail establishments also include cameras. Purchases, whether online or in a brick...
  • Cover image for The Lies of the Ajungo

    The Lies of the Ajungo

    • By: Utomi, Moses Ose
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    “There is no water in the City of Lies.”Tutu has lived all of his short life in the City of Lies with his mother. Located in the Forever Desert, the City of Lies used to have water. . .but the inhabitants were vanquished by the fierce Ajungo Empire which required...