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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Caroline B. Cooney and her latest novel, Before She Was Helen

    Entrevista con una autora: Caroline B. Cooney

    Caroline B. Cooney es la autora más vendida de novelas de suspenso, misterio y romance para adolescentes, con más de 15 millones de ejemplares vendidos en todo el mundo. Su última novela, "Antes de…

  • Jody David Armour and his latest book, N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law

    Entrevista con un autor: Jody Armour

    Jody David Armour es profesor de la Facultad de Derecho Gould de la USC. Forma parte del profesorado desde 1995. Su experiencia abarca desde demandas por lesiones personales hasta demandas sobre la…

  • Jon Wiener and his latest book, Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, co-authored with Mike Davis

    Entrevista con un autor: Jon Wiener

    Jon Wiener es editor colaborador de The Nation desde hace mucho tiempo y presentador y productor de "Start Making Sense", el podcast semanal de la revista. Es profesor emérito de Historia de Estados…

  • Author Chelsea Sedoti and her latest novel, It Came From The Sky

    Entrevista con una autora: Chelsea Sedoti

    Chelsea Sedoti se enamoró de la escritura desde muy joven tras descubrir que inventar historias era más divertido que hacer las tareas escolares. (Sus profesores no siempre lo apreciaron). Ahora…

  • H.G. Parry and her new novel, A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians

    Entrevista con un autor: HG Parry

    HG Parry vive en un piso repleto de libros en la costa de Kapiti, Nueva Zelanda, que comparte con su hermana, un gato, tres cobayas y dos conejos hiperactivos. Tiene un doctorado en Literatura Inglesa…

  • Playwright and screenwriter, Byron Lane and his first novel, A Star is Bored.

    Entrevista con un autor: Byron Lane

    Byron Lane es dramaturgo y guionista. También ha trabajado como periodista y asistente personal de celebridades, como Carrie Fisher. Es originario de Nueva Orleans y vive en Los Ángeles con su novio y…

  • Author Carrie Vaughn and her latest book, Ghosts of Sherwood

    Entrevista con una autora: Carrie Vaughn

    Carrie Vaughn es conocida por su serie de novelas Kitty Norville, éxito de ventas del New York Times, sobre una mujer lobo llamada Kitty, quien presenta un programa de radio para personas con…

  • Author TJ Kline and his book, The Extraordinaries

    Entrevista con un autor: TJ Klune

    TJ Klune es un autor ganador del Premio Literario Lambda y exexperto en reclamaciones de una compañía de seguros. Entre sus novelas se incluyen "En este río me ahogo" y "La casa en el mar cerúleo". Su…

  • Author Gretchen Berg and her first novel, The Operator

    Entrevista con una autora: Gretchen Berg

    Gretchen Berg nació en la Costa Este, se crio en el Medio Oeste y pasó varios años en el Pacífico Noroeste. Ha enseñado inglés en Corea del Sur y el norte de Irak, y ha viajado a todos los demás…

  • Author Grady Hendrix and his latest book, The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires

    Entrevista con un autor: Grady Hendrix

    El galardonado autor Grady Hendrix ha escrito sobre la bandera confederada para la revista Playboy, ha cubierto novelizaciones de películas de terror y enjambres de ninjas para medios como Slate y el…


Reviews by Daryl M.

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    Star Struck

    • By: McCown, Marjorie
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Cuando los lectores dejaron a Joey Jessup al final de Final Cut de Marjorie McCown, ella había descubierto la identidad del asesino que había matado a la subdirectora Courtney Lisle en el set de una película de superhéroes de gran presupuesto. Había sobrevivido a un intento de asesinato cuando el asesino había...
  • Cover image for The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

    The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

    • By: Clark, P. Djèlí
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Eveen es una asesina profesional. El énfasis en esa afirmación debe recaer en "profesional". Es una asesina reanimada, sin recuerdos y al servicio de la Matrona de Asesinos que hizo posible su segunda oportunidad en la "vida". Es eficiente, discreta y dispuesta a eliminar (el término...
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    A Short Walk Through a Wide World

    • By: Westerbeke, Douglas
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Three sisters gather at what they have decided is a wishing well near their home in Paris. The year is 1885. There are so many terrible things happening in the world that they decide they each will make a wish and sacrifice something important to them by casting it into...
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    The Twilight Garden

    • By: Adams, Sara Nisha
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    There are two residences on Eastbourne Road in Stoke Newington on the outskirts of London. Winston has lived in #79, with his boyfriend Lewis, for several years. Bernice, recently divorced, has just purchased #77 as a new home for herself and her young son, Sebastian. The two houses share a...
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    How to Solve Your Own Murder

    • By: Perrin, Kristen
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Annie’s Great Aunt Frances has always been a presence in Annie’s life. A rather nebulous, undefined presence, but a presence none the less. Great Aunt Frances owns the house in Chelsea where Annie has grown up with her mother. Communication from Great Aunt Frances has always been sporadic at best...
  • Cover image for The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    • By: Khan, Shubnum
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Fifteen-year-old Sana has just moved to Durban, a city on the eastern coast of South Africa, with her father. Her mother, a victim of cancer, died a few years earlier and her father believes the move to the once grand, now dilapidated, estate that is an odd type of apartment...
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    Women of Good Fortune

    Sophie Wan opens her debut novel with this bit of information:“Sheng nu – ‘leftover women’ – unmarried women over the age of twenty-seven. Later adopted by the internet community to refer to often well-educated women who had passed the appropriate age for marriage.”Wan then goes on to introduce readers to...
  • Cover image for The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    • By: Khan, Shubnum
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.

    Fifteen-year-old Sana has just moved to Durban, a city on the eastern coast of South Africa, with her father. Her mother, a victim of cancer, died a few years earlier and her father believes the move to the once grand, now dilapidated, estate that is an odd type of apartment...

  • Cover image for The Fox Wife

    The Fox Wife

    • By: Choo, Yangsze
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    A detective is approached about discovering the identity of a young woman who is found dead and frozen outside a restaurant. A grieving mother undertakes a search to locate the man she holds responsible for her daughter’s death. As each travels across Manchuria in the early 20th century, it becomes...
  • Cover image for The Book of Doors

    The Book of Doors

    • By: Brown, Gareth
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Cassie Andrews is living a quiet life in New York City. She spends her days and evenings working in a bookshop, and when she goes home each night, more often than not, she curls up with a good book. A set of unusual circumstances in the bookstore result in Cassie...