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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.

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    The Narrowboat Summer

    • By: Youngson, Anne
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Eve has spent the last 30 years working for an engineering/manufacturing company managing various projects and climbing the corporate ladder. Suddenly, she has been “released” from her position. She is a corporate scapegoat for systemic problems within her company and, as the only woman at her management level, the seemingly...
  • Cover image for Good Neighbors: A Novel

    Good Neighbors: A Novel

    • By: Langan, Sarah
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    The first season of The Twilight Zone in 1960 included an episode written by show creator Rod Serling entitled “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.” Serling presented a block of homes, filled with “typical” American families, on a summer evening. There is a bright flash of light, whose origin...
  • Cover image for N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law

    N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law

    • By: Armour, Jody David
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Jody Armour is the Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law at the University of Southern California. He studies issues of race and legal decision-making as well as torts and tort reform movements. He also studies and teaches on the intersections of language, the law and ethics. His latest book directly...
  • Cover image for The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne

    The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne

    The year is 1704 and Lady Cecily Kay has returned to London from her husband’s posting as a consul in Smyrna. Upon learning of her imminent return to the British Isles, Cecily sent a letter to Sir Barnaby Mayne, a renowned collector in London with one of the most expansive...
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    Hella

    • By: Gerrold, David, 1944-
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    David Gerrold is speculative fiction royalty. His career spans six decades, over which he has won the Hugo and the Nebula awards. He has written more than 50 novels, worked on numerous television series and created cultural touchstones like tribbles (from Star Trek) and the Sleestak (from The Land of...
  • Cover image for The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

    The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

    • By: Zapata, Michael
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    A pirate, a refugee, two pre-teen boys in love with speculative fiction stories, and two adult men who are friends and are each searching for what seems to be missing in their lives. Over the course of nearly a century, these disparate individuals will orbit the missing manuscript of a...
  • Cover image for The Devil and the Dark Water

    The Devil and the Dark Water

    • By: Turton, Stuart
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In a "locked-room" or "impossible crime" mystery, a crime, or series of crimes, is committed under circumstances that appear, at least initially, impossible for said crime to have been enacted. Those same conditions will also seem to preclude the criminal entering or exiting the crime scene.The first “locked-room” mystery was...
  • Cover image for The Eighth Detective

    The Eighth Detective

    • By: Pavesi, Alex
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In the early 1940s, a Scottish professor of mathematics devises a mathematical definition of the murder mystery story and writes seven provocative stories as proof of his theory. He publishes a journal article regarding his ideas and then self-publishes his seven stories in a small volume, entitled The White Murders.Decades...