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]
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]
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King
And so, I've finished the fifth level of my second trip to The Tower with Wolves of the Calla (which, incidentally, I have been mispronouncing in my head for over a decade and am still adjusting to the correct pronunciation, having now listened to the audiobook!). The main plot in this hefty tome … [Read more]
A Short Stay in Hell by Stephen L Peck
The irony that a story like this would be told in such a tight novella format is not lost on me, and it's one of the many features that made me chuckle uncomfortably throughout. A Short Stay in Hell follows Soren, a recently deceased man who discovers, to his great misfortune, that he picked the … [Read more]
Kloud 9: The Star Soldier by AJ O. Mason
By the time I got to chapter two in Kloud 9: The Star Soldier by AJ O. Mason I decided it reminded me of a much lighter Covenant by Lysandra Vuong (and I mean much much much lighter) and later on it would remind me of Heartstopper by Alice Oseman and Strange Bedfellows by Ariel Slamet Ries (both on … [Read more]
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery by Brom
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery starts off with a marker and that you know that a lot of people died at a particular location. From there, we have someone or something waking up and then a Puritan housewife, Abitha is out searching for her lost goat. Abitha, born and raised in England, was sent to … [Read more]
Prince of Storms by Kit Rocha
This is a hard review to write because I had such a fractured reading experience. I was never able to get into a rhythm with reading, and whatever narrative tension exists was undercut by constantly having to fight with the digital copy to get back to where I left off. NetGalley Shelf digital copies … [Read more]
