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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Chunck Tingle and his book cover Bury Your Gays

    Entrevista con un autor: Chuck Tingle

    Chuck Tingle es el autor superventas de USA Today de Camp Damascus y Straight. Es una misteriosa fuerza de energía tras unas gafas de sol y una máscara rosa. También es un autor anónimo de romance…

  • Author Delilah S. Dawson and her first novel, The Resurrectionist

    Entrevista con una autora: A. Rae Dunlap

    A. (Amanda) Rae Dunlap estudió cine y literatura victoriana en la Universidad Northwestern y trabaja como editora de tráilers en Disney, dando vida a la magia de los narradores más influyentes del…

  • Book covers of favorite books

    Mis libros favoritos de 2024

    ¡Lecturas de temporada para todos! Como suele ser habitual, se han publicado libros maravillosos en 2024, y me emociona compartir mis favoritos. Los he ordenado alfabéticamente por título hasta la…

  • Genoveva Dimova and her 2 book covers

    Entrevista con una autora: Genoveva Dimova

    Genoveva Dimova es autora de fantasía y arqueóloga. Originaria de Bulgaria, ahora reside en Escocia con su pareja y un pequeño ejército de plantas de interior. Cree en escribir sobre lo que se conoce…

  • Michelle Chouinard and her book

    Entrevista con una autora: Michelle Chouinard

    Michelle Chouinard ha escrito ocho novelas de misterio superventas de USA Today y Publishers Weekly bajo un nombre diferente. Tiene un doctorado en psicología del desarrollo por la Universidad de…

  • Author Alex Segura and his book Alter Ego

    Entrevista con un autor: Alex Segura

    Alex Segura es el autor superventas y galardonado de Identidad Secreta, ganador del Premio del Libro de Los Angeles Times en la categoría de Misterio/Suspense, además de ser elegido por el Editor del…

  • Author Marjorie McCown and her latest novel, Star Struck

    Entrevista con una autora: Marjorie McCown

    Marjorie McCown ha dedicado toda su vida profesional al mundo de la narración, aunque comenzó en el ámbito visual. Pasó más de veinticinco años en Hollywood trabajando como miembro clave de los…

  • Author Emily C. Hughes and her first book, Horror For Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

    Entrevista con una autora: Emily C. Hughes

    Emily C. Hughes (ella) quiere asustarte. Anteriormente editora de Unbound Worlds y TorNightfire.com, escribe sobre terror y selecciona una lista de los nuevos libros de terror del año. Puedes…

  • Author Tim Major and his latest novel, Jekyll & Hyde: Consulting Detectives

    Entrevista con un autor: Tim Major

    Tim Major es escritor y editor independiente de York, Reino Unido. Entre sus libros se incluyen Snakeskins, Hope Island, tres novelas de Sherlock Holmes, la colección de relatos "And the House Lights…

  • Author Joe R. Lansdale and his latest short story collection, In the Mad Mountains

    Entrevista con un autor: Joe R. Lansdale

    El autor de éxito internacional Joe R. Lansdale ha recibido los premios Edgar, Raymond Chandler, Bram Stoker, British Fantasy e Inkpot. Su obra abarca misterio, western, terror, thrillers, pulp…


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...