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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 The Picture Bride

    The Picture Bride

    The year is 1917 and a seventeen-year-old girl named Willow, who lives with her widowed mother and two younger brothers in a small, rural village in southeastern Korea, is asked by a traveling matchmaker if she wants to get married. The older woman shows Willow a photo of a young...
  • Cover image for Darling Girl: A Novel of Peter Pan

    Darling Girl: A Novel of Peter Pan

    • By: Michalski, Liz
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    We all know the story of Peter Pan, the boy who refuses to grow up. J.M. Barrie wrote and published a play and two books about Peter and his adventures in the early 20th century, recounting how Peter visited the Darling children: Wendy, John, and Michael, and spirited them away...
  • Cover image for Acts of Violet

    Acts of Violet

    • By: Montimore, Margarita
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In early 2020, Margarita Montimore published her debut novel, Oona Out of Order. It followed a woman who awakes every January 1st at a different point in her life. She lives in that year, and in that body, until December 31st, only to awaken the following morning beginning a different...
  • Cover image for Hawk Mountain

    Hawk Mountain

    • By: Habib, Conner
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In the late afternoon, Todd sits on the beach watching 6-year-old Anthony, his son, play in the surf. A man approaches Todd, and, after a minute, he recognizes him. It is Jack, who bullied Todd relentlessly during their senior year in high school. In spite of their shared history, Jack...
  • Cover image for The Kaiju Preservation Society

    The Kaiju Preservation Society

    • By: Scalzi, John
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In early March of 2020, Jamie Gray is unceremoniously demoted from marketing executive to “deliverator” at füdmüd, an internet startup company in New York City. As the COVID pandemic worsens, Jamie struggles to get by until a chance delivery happens to be to Tom Stevens. Tom tells Jamie that he...
  • Cover image for A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

    A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

    • By: Chambers, Becky
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In 2021, Becky Chambers introduced readers to the moon of Panga, where, centuries ago, the civilization’s robots gained consciousness and, en masse, walked off into the surrounding wilderness and were never heard from again. Until the day a robot named Splendid Speckled Mosscap walked up to Sibling Dex, a tea...
  • Cover image for Remarkably Bright Creatures

    Remarkably Bright Creatures

    • By: Van Pelt, Shelby
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    After her husband’s death, Tova Sullivan took a job cleaning the Sowell Bay Aquarium. She works evenings after the aquarium has closed to the public, mopping the floors, clearing the trash cans, and cleaning the glass walls of the exhibition tanks until they shine. As she works her way around...
  • Cover image for The Children on the Hill

    The Children on the Hill

    • By: McMahon, Jennifer
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Monster. The word brings to mind ugly, misshapen creatures wreaking havoc wherever they go. Perhaps the most famous monster is Frankenstein’s monster from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. It’s been over 200 years since the teenaged Shelley created one of the most enduring tales of all time. And over the last two...
  • Cover image for Siren Queen

    Siren Queen

    On a whim, a young Chinese-American girl pays with an inch of her hair so that she and he sister can see Romeo and Juliet at the new nickelodeon in their neighborhood. From that moment on, she has a single desire: to be a motion picture star. Not simply an...
  • Cover image for Never Been Kissed

    Never Been Kissed

    • By: Janovsky, Timothy
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    As Wren Roland celebrates his 22nd birthday with his best friends and roommates, Mateo and Avery, he begins to lament the fact that he has never been kissed. He’s been close, but has yet to experience what his degree in film studies has convinced him will be a life-altering and...