About: Megan McCarthy-Biank

I've been reading for pleasure for a very long time. Back in 2019, Steve asked me to write book reviews for the website, and then I teamed up with him to do some interviews at C2E2 2020. Since then, I've been lucky enough to connect with authors and their publishers for upcoming book releases and interview opportunities, which then become Cantina Conversations for the podcast. Any fellow bookworms are encouraged to read my book reviews and listen to the author interviews. You can also find me on Goodreads.

Posts by: Megan McCarthy-Biank

In Interference, Sue Burke reunites readers with the sentient bamboo Stevland, the Glassmakers, and the humans of Pax. Taking place a couple hundred years after the events of the first novel, subsequent generations of these species have found a way to successfully work with each other in a civilized society. …

On September 11, 2001, police find an unidentified woman’s dead body on a beach near Kongslund Orphanage in Copenhagen, surrounded by seemingly random objects meticulously placed in a strange pattern. They begin to investigate the bizarre case, only for the Twin Towers in New York to fall later that morning …

Pino Lella is a normal teenage boy that just happens to live in Milan, Italy under Mussolini’s rule during World War II. The horrors of war are closing in all around him, but all he cares about is food, music and girls. That is, until a movie theater that he …

Sydney Rose Parnell is a badass Iraq war vet who now works as a railroad police special agent in Denver; while her time in mortuary affairs haunts her on occasion, she proves herself useful by looking at the big picture and trusting her instincts. Better yet, her K9 partner is …

If you could pay money to experience life as another person, alive or dead, would you? You could accept an award as a famous actor, or score a winning touchdown at the super bowl as a professional football player. You can even enjoy a short affair as anyone who might …

In an alternate reality set far in the future, technological advances in medicine (among other industries) have expanded the life expectancy of human beings. Consequentially, overpopulation becomes an issue. In Secondborn, society’s solution for population control is to enforce an offspring limit in which parents may have only two children. …

Immigration. Police brutality. Healthcare. Societal Collapse. In a series of novellas, Cory Doctorow isn’t afraid to get political to address these themes in Radicalized. His stories force readers to confront these issues and the frightening familiarity of how these events play out. The main characters in these stories face corporate …

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  • Introducing the Cantina Book Club Podcast November 14, 2023
    In today's episode, Megan bids farewell to The Nerd Cantina Show to develop a "spin-off" show, called Cantina Book Club!    The Cantina Book Club Podcast will be the new home for author interviews previously featured on The Nerd Cantina Show Podcast. Tune in to hear more!   Read book reviews on the Cantina Book Club […]
  • Cantina Conversation with Marty Ohlhaut and Grace Ly - TNCS Ep 304 November 3, 2023
    In this Cantina Conversation Megan welcomes father-daughter author duo Marty Ohlhaut and Grace Ly. They talk about their book, Tent for Seven: A Camping Adventure Gone South Out West, available now.    We ask that you support the show in any way possible.  You can like, share, rate or comment on any of the various […]

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