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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Caroline B. Cooney and her latest novel, Before She Was Helen

    Interview With an Author: Caroline B. Cooney

    Caroline B. Cooney is the bestselling author of teen suspense, mystery and romance novels that have sold over 15 million copies worldwide. Her latest novel, Before She Was Helen, is a mystery for…

  • Jody David Armour and his latest book, N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law

    Interview With an Author: Jody Armour

    Jody David Armour is a professor at the USC Gould School of Law. He has been a member of the faculty since 1995. Armour’s expertise ranges from personal injury claims to claims about the relationship…

  • Jon Wiener and his latest book, Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, co-authored with Mike Davis

    Interview With an Author: Jon Wiener

    Jon Wiener is a longtime Contributing Editor at The Nation and host and producer of “Start Making Sense,” the magazine’s weekly podcast. He is an Emeritus Professor of U.S. history at UC Irvine, and…

  • Author Chelsea Sedoti and her latest novel, It Came From The Sky

    Interview With an Author: Chelsea Sedoti

    Chelsea Sedoti fell in love with writing at a young age after discovering that making up stories was more fun than doing her schoolwork. (Her teachers didn’t always appreciate this.) She now focuses…

  • H.G. Parry and her new novel, A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians

    Interview With an Author: H.G. Parry

    H.G. Parry lives in a book-infested flat on the Kapiti Coast in New Zealand, which she shares with her sister, a cat, three guinea-pigs, and two overactive rabbits. She holds a Ph.D. in English…

  • Playwright and screenwriter, Byron Lane and his first novel, A Star is Bored.

    Interview With an Author: Byron Lane

    Byron Lane is a playwright and screenwriter. He's also worked as a journalist and as a personal assistant to celebrities, including Carrie Fisher. He's originally from New Orleans and lives in Los…

  • Author Carrie Vaughn and her latest book, Ghosts of Sherwood

    Interview With an Author: Carrie Vaughn

    Carrie Vaughn is best known for her New York Times bestselling Kitty Norville series of novels about a werewolf named Kitty who hosts a talk radio show for the supernaturally disadvantaged. She's…

  • Author TJ Kline and his book, The Extraordinaries

    Interview With an Author: TJ Klune

    TJ Klune is a Lambda Literary Award-winning author and an ex-claims examiner for an insurance company. His novels include, Into this River I Drown and The House in the Cerulean Sea. His latest novel…

  • Author Gretchen Berg and her first novel, The Operator

    Interview With an Author: Gretchen Berg

    Gretchen Berg was born on the East Coast, raised in the Midwest, and spent a number of years in the Pacific Northwest. She has taught English in South Korea and in Northern Iraq and has traveled to…

  • Author Grady Hendrix and his latest book, The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires

    Interview With an Author: Grady Hendrix

    Award-winning author Grady Hendrix has written about the confederate flag for Playboy magazine, covered terrible movie novelizations and ninja death swarms for outlets ranging from Slate to the…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for Star Struck

    Star Struck

    • By: McCown, Marjorie
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    마조리 맥카운의 소설 『파이널 컷』의 마지막 부분에서 독자들은 조이 제섭이 거액의 슈퍼히어로 영화 촬영장에서 조감독 코트니 리슬을 살해한 범인의 정체를 밝혀낸 것을 보게 됩니다. 그녀는 범인이 자신을 살해하려던 시도에서 살아남았는데…
  • Cover image for The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

    The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

    • By: Clark, P. Djèlí
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    이븐은 전문 킬러입니다. 여기서 중요한 것은 "전문"이라는 단어에 있습니다. 그녀는 기억이 지워진 채 되살아난 킬러로, 그녀에게 두 번째 "삶"의 기회를 준 암살단 여두목을 섬기고 있습니다. 그녀는 효율적이고 신중하며, (살인이라는 용어 자체가...) 기꺼이 처치합니다.
  • Cover image for A Short Walk Through a Wide World

    A Short Walk Through a Wide World

    • By: Westerbeke, Douglas
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Three sisters gather at what they have decided is a wishing well near their home in Paris. The year is 1885. There are so many terrible things happening in the world that they decide they each will make a wish and sacrifice something important to them by casting it into...
  • Cover image for The Twilight Garden

    The Twilight Garden

    • By: Adams, Sara Nisha
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    There are two residences on Eastbourne Road in Stoke Newington on the outskirts of London. Winston has lived in #79, with his boyfriend Lewis, for several years. Bernice, recently divorced, has just purchased #77 as a new home for herself and her young son, Sebastian. The two houses share a...
  • Cover image for How to Solve Your Own Murder

    How to Solve Your Own Murder

    • By: Perrin, Kristen
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Annie’s Great Aunt Frances has always been a presence in Annie’s life. A rather nebulous, undefined presence, but a presence none the less. Great Aunt Frances owns the house in Chelsea where Annie has grown up with her mother. Communication from Great Aunt Frances has always been sporadic at best...
  • Cover image for The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    • By: Khan, Shubnum
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Fifteen-year-old Sana has just moved to Durban, a city on the eastern coast of South Africa, with her father. Her mother, a victim of cancer, died a few years earlier and her father believes the move to the once grand, now dilapidated, estate that is an odd type of apartment...
  • Cover image for Women of Good Fortune

    Women of Good Fortune

    Sophie Wan opens her debut novel with this bit of information:“Sheng nu – ‘leftover women’ – unmarried women over the age of twenty-seven. Later adopted by the internet community to refer to often well-educated women who had passed the appropriate age for marriage.”Wan then goes on to introduce readers to...
  • Cover image for The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    • By: Khan, Shubnum
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.

    Fifteen-year-old Sana has just moved to Durban, a city on the eastern coast of South Africa, with her father. Her mother, a victim of cancer, died a few years earlier and her father believes the move to the once grand, now dilapidated, estate that is an odd type of apartment...

  • Cover image for The Fox Wife

    The Fox Wife

    • By: Choo, Yangsze
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    A detective is approached about discovering the identity of a young woman who is found dead and frozen outside a restaurant. A grieving mother undertakes a search to locate the man she holds responsible for her daughter’s death. As each travels across Manchuria in the early 20th century, it becomes...
  • Cover image for The Book of Doors

    The Book of Doors

    • By: Brown, Gareth
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Cassie Andrews is living a quiet life in New York City. She spends her days and evenings working in a bookshop, and when she goes home each night, more often than not, she curls up with a good book. A set of unusual circumstances in the bookstore result in Cassie...