Hi, G.D. Giant! Thank you for agreeing to participate in our Quick Questions series. Would you please tell us a little bit about yourself and how you found your way back to Cannonball Read? A little bit about me; I am an avid reader and an avid gardener. I live with the love of my life in the … [Read more]
Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
I did not have "give 5 stars to a horror book" on my BINGO card for this year, even if it is considered a "cozy" horror (a descriptor that I disagree with). But I really loved everything about this: the characters, the humor, the themes. The main character is Shesheshen, an amorphous goopy monster … [Read more]
The Stench of Honolulu by Jack Handey
For those who don't know, Jack Handey is a humor writer most famous for his "Deep Thoughts" segments on Saturday Night Live, where he'd read out a short, absurd little humor piece over rolling nature footage. The segment was frequently hysterical, and a personal favorite of mine. I've been … [Read more]
The Late Mrs. Willoughby: A Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney Mystery by Claudia Gray
My local bookstore recently had a table full of Claudia Gray’s Jane Austen-based detective series on sale, so I picked up a couple, not realizing that I was starting with books 2 and 3. That’s a little bit of a shame, and I might circle back around to the first book eventually, but I still find this … [Read more]
Allow Me to Introduce Myself by Onyi Nwabineli
Rating: 3.5 Stars In a nutshell: Former child social media darling Anuri (the correct markings on her name will not be accepted by my word processing program, but you can view the name and learn how to pronounce it here) has managed to mostly extract herself from her stepmother’s social media … [Read more]
House of Margins by Tloto Tsamaase
House of Margins by Tloto Tsamaase is about Renewa trying to find out what happened to her sister, Anaya. Anaya was an up and coming Afrosurrealist writer from Botswana. As a finalist for the prestigious career-insuring Günter Prize, she goes to stay in the Günter Huis (it means house) to write a … [Read more]
Here, There, and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles by Geoff Emerick
This is the story of Geoff Emerick, the sound engineer who worked on some albums for a little band from Liverpool you might have heard of. Emerick was in the studio with The Beatles almost right from the beginning, first as an assistant and later on as the chief engineer. His timing was incredibly … [Read more]
