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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Elizabeth Little and her latest book, Pretty as a Picture

    Entrevista con una autora: Elizabeth Little

    Elizabeth Little es la autora de "Querida Hija", ganadora del Premio de la Crítica Strand a la Mejor Novela Prima, y de dos obras de no ficción: "Mordiendo el Renacuajo de Cera" y "Un Viaje de Lengua"…

  • Author and chemist, Dr. Kathryn Harkup and her latest book, Death By Shakespeare

    Entrevista con una autora: Kathryn Harkup

    La Dra. Kathryn Harkup es química y escritora. Obtuvo un doctorado sobre sus sustancias químicas favoritas, las fosfinas, y continuó su investigación postdoctoral antes de darse cuenta de que hablar…

  • Author Zen Cho and her latest novel, The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water

    Entrevista con un autor: Zen Cho

    Zen Cho es autora de El Hechicero de la Corona, La Reina Verdadera y la colección de relatos Espíritus en el Extranjero. Ganó los premios Hugo, Crawford y el British Fantasy, y fue finalista de los…

  • Maggie Tokuda-Hall and her debut novel, The Mermaid, The Witch and The Sea

    Entrevista con una autora: Maggie Tokuda-Hall

    Maggie Tokuda-Hall es la autora del libro ilustrado ganador de la Medalla de Oro de Parent's Choice, Also an Octopus, ilustrado por Benji Davies. Vive en Oakland, California, con su esposo, su hijo y…

  • Author Rebecca Serle and her latest novel, In Five Years

    Entrevista con una autora: Rebecca Serle

    Rebecca Serle es autora y guionista de televisión, residente en Los Ángeles. Serle codesarrolló la exitosa adaptación televisiva de su serie juvenil Famous in Love, y también es autora de The Dinner…

  • Author Celia Laskey and first book Under the Rainbow

    Entrevista con una autora: Celia Laskey

    La obra de Celia Laskey ha aparecido en Guernica, The Minnesota Review y otros medios. Tiene una maestría en Bellas Artes de la Universidad de Nuevo México y fue finalista del Premio de Cuento para…

  • Author Annabeth Albert and her latest novel, Conventionally Yours

    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 John Scalzi and his latest novel, The Last Emperox

    Entrevista con un autor: John Scalzi

    John Scalzi es un autor de ficción especulativa, bestseller del New York Times y galardonado, cuya obra se ha traducido a más de 20 idiomas. También ha trabajado como consultor creativo para la serie…

  • Author Marie Benedict with her latest novel, Lady Clementine

    Entrevista con una autora: Marie Benedict

    Marie Benedict es abogada con más de diez años de experiencia como litigante en dos de los principales bufetes del país y para empresas de la lista Fortune 500. Es miembro del Salón de la Fama de…


Reviews by Daryl M.

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    Out of Character

    • By: Albert, Annabeth
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In last year’s Conventionally Yours, Annabeth Albert took readers on a virtual roadtrip, while the country was in lockdown, so that they could join tabletop gamers Alden, Conrad, and Jasper as they made their way from New England to Las Vegas for Massive Odyssey Con West, the annual national gathering...
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    The Final Girl Support Group

    • By: Hendrix, Grady
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Any fan of horror movies knows what the term “final girl” means. A final girl is the person left standing at the end of a horror movie. During the course of the film, she evades the threat, usually losing several friends and family members in the process, long enough to...
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    Razorblade Tears

    • By: Cosby, S. A.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Two young men, who are deeply in love, married, and fathers to a young girl. Two fathers, who cannot accept their sons as they are nor the life they are creating. Two senseless murders that remove any possibility of reconciliation or the chance to say what should have been said...
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    A Psalm for the Wild-Built

    • By: Chambers, Becky
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Centuries ago, on the moon of Panga, the robot workers, who filled the factories and other industrial pursuits of the human civilization, gained consciousness. Rather than be integrated into Pangan culture, as they were offered, the robots chose to leave, en-masse, into the surrounding wilderness. They were never heard from...
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    The Album of Dr. Moreau

    • By: Gregory, Daryl
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    The Island of Dr. Moreau was H.G. Wells’ third novel and was first published in 1896. It recounts the experiences of a shipwreck victim who finds himself on an island populated by animals that have been modified by the titular Dr. Moreau, using scientific means, to become human/animal hybrids who...
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    Mother May I

    • By: Jackson, Joshilyn
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    It happens in an instant. While Bree Cabbat watches her eldest daughter rehearse a school production of Grease, her infant son, Robert, sleeps in the seat next to her in the balcony of the school’s theatre. One moment he is there, the next he is gone. In his place is...
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    A Master of Djinn

    • By: Clark, P. Djèli
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In Cairo in the 1870’s, an inventor and investigator of mysticism named al-Jahiz made a literal breakthrough unlike any other. He pierced the boundaries between our world and other worlds, allowing magic to bleed into ours. In the process, al-Jahiz was lost to another dimension before the rupture between worlds...
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    The Dictionary of Lost Words

    • By: Williams, Pip
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    According to their website, the Oxford English Dictionary “is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.” Serially published in portions, or fascicles, the first fascicle, covering “A to...
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    Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder

    • By: Willberg, T. A.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Imagine the following:  A chilling murder, a secret detective agency with offices located in a myriad of tunnels located beneath London, and a young apprentice determined to find the killer in order to clear one of her closest friends of the murder. In her debut novel, which is the beginning...