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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Collage of Shaun Barger and his first novel, Mage Against the Machine

    Entrevista con un autor: Shaun Barger

    Shaun Barger es un novelista residente en Los Ángeles que detesta el frío, las conspiraciones idiotas y el fascismo. Divide sus días entre escribir, resistirse al canto de sirena de los eternos climas…

  • Robert Masello and his current novel The Night Crossing

    Entrevista con un autor: Robert Masello

    Robert Masello es un periodista galardonado, guionista de televisión y autor de bestsellers. Su guía de composición, "Las reglas de escritura de Robert", se ha adoptado en numerosas aulas…

  • Author V.E. Schwab and her latest book, Vengeful

    Entrevista con un autor: VE Schwab

    Victoria "VE" Schwab ha sido llamada "la heredera de Diana Wynne Jones". Es autora de la serie "Shades of Magic", éxito de ventas del New York Times, así como de varias novelas para jóvenes y adultos…

  • Author Rebecca Serle and her book, The Dinner List

    Entrevista con una autora: Rebecca Serle

    Rebecca Serle escribe a tiempo completo, lo que significa que va en pijama al trabajo. Estudió en la Universidad del Sur de California y luego obtuvo su maestría en Bellas Artes en The New School de…

  • Author P. Djeli Clark and his book "The Black God's Drum"

    Entrevista con un autor: P. Djèlí Clark

    Nacido en Nueva York y criado principalmente en Houston, P. Djèlí Clark pasó sus primeros años de vida en Trinidad y Tobago, la tierra natal de sus padres. Sus escritos han aparecido en Daily Science…

  • Author Christopher Huang and his book, A Gentleman's Murder

    Entrevista con un autor: Christopher Huang

    Christopher Huang creció en Singapur, donde cumplió dos años del Servicio Militar Nacional como señalero del Ejército. Después se mudó a Canadá, donde estudió Arquitectura en la Universidad McGill de…

  • Photo of Juliet McDaniel and her debut novel, Mr. & Mrs. American Pie

    Entrevista con una autora: Juliet McDaniel

    Juliet McDaniel tiene una maestría en Escritura de la Universidad DePaul. Aunque se crio en Arizona, pasó los últimos 25 años viviendo en Chicago, donde actualmente reside con su pareja y sus gatos…

  • Author Anne Youngson and her debut novel, Meet Me at the Museum

    Entrevista con una autora: Anne Youngson

    Anne Youngson tuvo una larga y exitosa carrera en la industria automotriz antes de jubilarse anticipadamente para dedicarse a la escritura. Actualmente cursa un doctorado en Oxford Brookes. Anne y su…

  • Author Ruthann Emrys with her book covers

    Entrevista con una autora: Ruthanna Emrys

    Ruthanna Emrys vive en una misteriosa mansión a las afueras de Washington D. C. con su esposa y su numerosa y peculiar familia. Prepara vainilla casera, se obsesiona con el diseño de videojuegos, da…


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...