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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Gareth Brown and the cover of his book The Society of Unknowable Objects

    Entrevista con un autor: Gareth Brown

    Gareth Brown es el autor del bestseller internacional "El Libro de las Puertas". Desde muy joven quiso ser escritor y completó su primera novela siendo adolescente. Durante los últimos veinte años, ha…

  • Direct Descendant book cover by Tanya Huff

    Entrevista con una autora: Tanya Huff

    Tanya Huff se fue de Nueva Escocia a los tres años y ha vivido la mayor parte de su vida en Ontario, pero aún se considera marítima. En su camino hacia la idílica vida rural que comparte con su pareja…

  • Author Kathleen Kaufman and her latest novel, The Entirely True Story of the Fantastical Mesmerist Nora Grey

    Entrevista con una autora: Kathleen Kaufman

    Kathleen Kaufman es autora de realismo mágico y terror gótico feminista. Explora al "otro" desde su perspectiva, cómo el horror del pasado se manifiesta en el presente y la inevitable interrelación de…

  • Author Sarah James and her latest novel, Last Stop Union Station

    Entrevista con una autora: Sarah James

    Sarah James se graduó del programa de Maestría en Bellas Artes en Escritura para Cine y Televisión de la USC y de la Licenciatura en Dramaturgia del Fordham Lincoln Center. Actualmente trabaja como…

  • Christopher Shaw Myers and his book, Robert Shaw: An Actor’s Life on the Set of Jaws and Beyond

    Entrevista con un autor: Christopher Shaw Myers

    Christopher Shaw Myers creció escuchando las historias de su peculiar tío, Robert Shaw, y otros familiares. Nacido y criado en Pensilvania, asistió al Trinity College, donde se licenció en Literatura…

  • Author Lincoln Michel and his latest novel, Metallic Realms

    Entrevista con un autor: Lincoln Michel

    Los libros anteriores de Lincoln Michel incluyen la colección de cuentos "Bestias Verticales" y la novela "El Explorador de Cuerpos", que fue nombrada uno de los 10 Mejores Libros de Ciencia Ficción…

  • Author Randee Dawn and her latest novel, The Only Song Worth Singing

    Entrevista con una autora: Randee Dawn

    Nacida en Virginia y criada en Maryland, Randee Dawn reside actualmente en Brooklyn, donde trabaja como periodista de entretenimiento. Pero tras muchos años de esfuerzo y mucha suerte, su novela…

  • Author Olivia Waite and her latest novella, Murder By Memory

    Entrevista con una autora: Olivia Waite

    Olivia Waite escribe ciencia ficción queer, fantasía, romance histórico y ensayos. Es columnista de novela romántica para el New York Times Book Review. Su última novela corta es Murder By Memory y…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for Middlegame

    Middlegame

    • By: McGuire, Seanan
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Roger Middleton is a rather typical seven-year-old boy. He lives with his adopted parents in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He seems to be exceptionally gifted when it comes to grammar, spelling, anything to do with languages, really. But he struggles with even the most basic levels of mathematics.Dodger Cheswich is not a...
  • Cover image for Radicalized

    Radicalized

    • By: Doctorow, Cory
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Speculative Fiction has a long history of using the tropes of the genre to comment on our world. Ursula K. Le Guin used The Left Hand of Darkness to examine cultural gender constructs. Using the original Star Trek television series, show creator Gene Roddenberry commented on issues like race relations...
  • Cover image for Snow White Learns Witchcraft: Stories and Poems

    Snow White Learns Witchcraft: Stories and Poems

    • By: Goss, Theodora
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    "Fairy tales are another kind of Bible, for those who know how to read them.” 'Red as Blood and White as Bone' in Snow White Learns Witchcraft by Theodora GossTheodora Goss is an award winning-author, a professor of literature and writing at both Boston University and the Stonecoast MFA program. Her debut...
  • Cover image for The Sentence is Death

    The Sentence is Death

    • By: Horowitz, Anthony
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In 2018, readers discovered the first book in Anthony Horowitz’s new mystery series: The Word is Murder. In it, a wealthy woman enters a London funeral parlor in the morning to make her final arrangements. She is found in her home, murdered, six hours later. When disgraced Detective Inspector Daniel...
  • Cover image for The Night Tiger

    The Night Tiger

    • By: Choo, Yangsze
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Ji Lin is a young woman who is working as an apprentice dressmaker by day and secretly working as a “dance instructor” at a dance-hall in the evenings to repay a family debt. Ren is eleven, but tells everyone that he is thirteen. He has lost his entire family, including...
  • Cover image for Holy Lands: A Novel

    Holy Lands: A Novel

    • By: Sthers, Amanda, 1978- author, translator.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Harry Rosenmerck, a successful Jewish Cardiologist, just walked away. He walked away from his family, his career, his life, and everything he knew and loved to start a pig farm in Israel. This sounds like the set-up for a potentially insensitive joke, but it isn’t. Harry is deadly serious, as...
  • Cover image for An absolutely remarkable thing : a novel

    An absolutely remarkable thing : a novel

    • By: Green, Hank,
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    We’ve all done it. We’ve all seen something extraordinary, glanced at it briefly, and then continued on toward our current destination, wherever that may be. We may be in a hurry, we may not. We may be alone, with someone else, or part of a group. But, regardless of our...
  • Cover image for Record of a Spaceborn Few.

    Record of a Spaceborn Few.

    • By: Chambers, Becky.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Becky Chambers has become a name to watch in Science Fiction. She published her first novel, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in 2014 after completing it via a successful Kickstarter campaign, which was later picked up by Harper Voyager and released to a much wider readership and...
  • Cover image for Finding Baba Yaga : a short novel in verse

    Finding Baba Yaga : a short novel in verse

    • By: Yolen, Jane,
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Jane Yolen has been working as an author for over 50 years. She has published over 300 titles, ranging from children’s books to speculative fiction (both fantasy and science fiction), and to nonfiction. She is also a poet, an instructor of writing and a reviewer of children’s literature.Jane Yolen’s books...