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]
Our Sister's Keeper by Jasmine Holmes
Please note that I received this via NetGalley. This did not impact my rating or review. Trigger warning: A lynching is described. Well wow. This was 5 stars and I didn't want to put it down. I don't want to talk too much about the book because I don't want to spoil for potential readers. But … [Read more]
The Break-Up Retreat by Camilla Sten
Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not impact my rating or review. So this was a very slow burn of a thriller. It took a while to get going and then once it does, it becomes really good, but then it just kind of devolves into a slasher book and the ending felt rushed. I … [Read more]
"A" is for Alibi: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery (#1) by Sue Grafton
The basic characteristics of any good investigator are a plodding nature and infinite patience. Society has inadvertently been grooming women to this end for years. Growing up, it was well known in the house that when a new Sue Grafton book came out, you did not disturb my mother; she felt about … [Read more]
The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives by Elizabeth Arnott
Three women who met because they were all at one point married to a serial killer band together to try and stop a potential new killer when women start disappearing around where they live. This book picks up with an unusual premise - what is it like to have been the closest person to a serial … [Read more]
Knock Knock, Open Wide by Neil Sharpson
It is my personal opinion that if her presence on the curriculum had consisted less of accounts of the bleakness of Irish peasant life at the turn of the century and more farmers’ wives cuckolding their husbands with corpses possessed by the devil, the Irish language would be in rude and glowing … [Read more]
Moss’d in Space by Rebecca Thorne
Well this was delightful! I knew that I would enjoy Rebecca Thorne’s Moss’d in Space, narrated by Natalie Naudus and Dylan Reilly Fitzpatrick, but I was still surprised by how much. I liked Thorne’s Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea, though I thought it rambled a bit. Moss’d has the growing found … [Read more]
