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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Anthony Horowitz and his latest book, Marble Hall Murders

    Entrevista con un autor: Anthony Horowitz

    Anthony Horowitz es uno de los escritores más prolíficos y exitosos del Reino Unido, único en su actividad tanto en ficción para adultos como para jóvenes, televisión, teatro y periodismo. Varias de…

  • Author Tochi Onyebuchi and his latest novel, Harmattan Season

    Entrevista con un autor: Tochi Onyebuchi

    Tochi Onyebuchi es el autor de Goliath, finalista de los Premios Locus y Dragon; la novela juvenil Beasts Made of Night, ganadora del Premio Ilube Nommo a la Mejor Novela de Ficción Especulativa de un…

  • Author Michael Seth Starr and his latest book, Nothin' Comes Easy: The Life of Rodney Dangerfield

    Entrevista con un autor: Michael Seth Starr

    Michael Seth Starr cubrió la televisión en el New York Post como reportero, columnista, crítico y editor durante más de 28 años. Ha escrito una filmografía de Peter Sellers y biografías de Don Rickles…

  • Author Kate Maruyama and her latest novel, Alterations

    Entrevista con una autora: Kate Maruyama

    Kate Maruyama creció leyendo y alimentándose del cine en un pequeño pueblo de Nueva Inglaterra. Es autora de The Collective, Harrowgate y Bleak Houses. Escribe, enseña, cocina y come en Los Ángeles…

  • Author Ava Morgyn and her latest novel, The Bane Witch

    Entrevista con una autora: Ava Morgyn

    Ava Morgyn creció enamorándose de los personajes equivocados en las historias equivocadas, y luego estudió Escritura Inglesa y Retórica en la Universidad de St. Edward. Es una amante de la brujería…

  • Poet Karen Rigby and latest collection of poems, Fabulosa

    Entrevista con una poeta: Karen Rigby

    Karen Rigby es la autora de Chinoiserie, ganadora del Premio de Poesía Sawtooth en 2011. Becaria de literatura del Fondo Nacional para las Artes, sus poemas se han publicado en revistas como The…

  • Author Aimee Pokwatka and his first novel, Knife Skills For Beginners

    Entrevista con un autor: Orlando Murrin

    Tras su salto a la fama culinaria en el programa Masterchef de la BBC, Orlando Murrin se convirtió en editor de la revista BBC Good Food antes de fundar una posada gastronómica en el suroeste de…


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...