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]
Whistler by Ann Patchett
Daphne Fuller, the protagonist of Ann Patchett's newest novel is a fifty-three old English teacher at an all-girls private school. On a day trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with her older, retired husband, she runs into someone she hasn't seen in over forty years: her former stepfather Eddie … [Read more]
Godzilla Stomp! by Katherine Locke and Nikolas Ilic
Now, I’m that person that roots for the bull instead of the cowboy in bull riding. I love watching the golf ball spin aaaroooound the hole and not go in. I will cheer for the curling kettle to “go go go! Aaaand out of bounds!” So it should come as no surprise that I will have a hearty hurrah when … [Read more]
The Rhesus Chart by Charles Stross
“Don't be silly, Bob, said Mo, everyone knows vampires don't exist!" This is the one with vampires in it. And investment bankers. Who are the greater bloodsuckers, you might ask? Trick question, they are one and the same. Up until this point, a lot of the workplace drama side of The Laundry … [Read more]
Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance by Cindy Cohn
I got an alert that Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance by Cindy Cohn, Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation was ready for me to pick up from the library. I didn't remember putting it on hold and I could not fathom why I would want to read a … [Read more]
If you haven't read Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt - go do it! It's a classic of children's literature, and one of those elevated children's texts that reads well as an adult - but also it's short and sweet, which busy adults can appreciate. Not to mention the story is about life and death, and … [Read more]
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
Yesteryear is the debut novel of Caro Claire Burke, and is centred on a delightfully fiendish "what if". What if a popular American tradwife influencer one day found herself living in actual pioneer times? Such a simple conceit, and yet so thoroughly engaging. So it pains me to say: this book … [Read more]
