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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Cory Doctorow and his novel Radicalized

    Entrevista con un autor: Cory Doctorow

    Cory Doctorow es coeditor de Boing Boing (una revista, blog y directorio de cosas maravillosas, galardonado), consultor especial de la Electronic Frontier Foundation, investigador asociado del Media…

  • Scotto Moore and his novel, Your Favorite Band Can Not Save You

    Entrevista con un autor: Scotto Moore

    Scotto Moore es un dramaturgo de Seattle cuyas obras incluyen varias obras de ficción especulativa. También es el creador de la serie cómica web The Coffee Table, sobre una pareja que descubre que su…

  • Author Brigid Kemmerer and her latest book, A Curse So Dark and Lonely

    Entrevista con una autora: Brigid Kemmerer

    Brigid Kemmerer es la autora superventas del New York Times de Más de lo que podemos contar, Cartas a los perdidos y la serie Elementales. Nació en Omaha, Nebraska, aunque sus padres la trasladaron…

  • Mallory O’Meara and her debut book, The Lady from The Black Lagoon

    Entrevista con una autora: Mallory O'Meara

    Mallory O'Meara es productora de cine y copresentadora del podcast "Reading Glasses". También es una aficionada de toda la vida al terror clásico. En su debut como autora, O'Meara revela la larga y…

  • French novelist Amanda Sthers

    Entrevista con una autora: Amanda Sthers

    Amanda Sthers nació en París y ahora reside en Los Ángeles. Es autora de diez novelas superventas, y su primera película en inglés, Madame, se estrenó en Estados Unidos en 2018. El gobierno francés la…

  • Author Marie Benedict and her latest novel, The Only Women in the Room

    Entrevista con una autora: Marie Benedict

    Marie Benedict es abogada con más de diez años de experiencia como litigante en dos de los despachos de abogados más prestigiosos del país. Se graduó con honores en Historia e Historia del Arte por el…

  • Author Arwen Elys Dayton and her latest book Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful

    Entrevista con una autora: Arwen Elys Dayton

    Arwen Elys Dayton es la autora superventas del thriller egipcio de ciencia ficción Resurrección y de la serie de futuro cercano Buscador, ambientada en Escocia y Hong Kong. Dedica meses a investigar…

  • Author Stuart Turton and his debut novel, The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

    Entrevista con un autor: Stuart Turton

    Stuart Turton es un periodista independiente que vive en el oeste de Londres con su esposa e hija. No se puede confiar en Stuart, en el mejor sentido de la palabra. Las 7½ muertes de Evelyn Hardcastle…


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...
  • Cover image for The Legend of Charlie Fish

    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...
  • Cover image for The London Séance Society

    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...