Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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G'day, I'm an Australian Cannonballer! I'm a horror/thriller junkie embarking on my seventh Half-Cannonball. I'm a bit shy at commenting, but I absolutely love writing and reading reviews. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Caesar’s Wife's Quick Questions interview.)

Caesar's Wife's Reviews:

Shocking

The Power by Naomi Alderman

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The Power is actually about the reversal of power. What if the raw, physical power held within the bodies of men was overshadowed by the raw, electrical power generated within the bodies of women? Would this changing of the guards of power cause the scales to rebalance? Would it usher in world peace? Would women, the mothers of all, take on a caring and nurturing role and reset the world to be a functioning matriarchy? Or would power redistribute to bring untold instability? Would this […]

A veritable coffle of bums

The Day My Bum Went Psycho by Andy Griffiths

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Andy Griffiths is an Aussie author with the sense of humor of a five year old. Which is excellent, because he writes books directly intended for this age group. Bum jokes, poop jokes, fart jokes. It’s a smorgasbord of hilarity to a juvenile, and caused my son cackle out loud throughout our reading of it. The Day My Bum Went Psycho tells the tale of Zack, a perfectly normal kid with a bum who’s hell-bent on world domination. The story begins with Zack catching his […]

Golden Shower

The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller

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**Trigger and Spoiler Warning** Do you like to read about dysfunctional mother/daughter relationships? How about childhood sexual abuse and rape? Parental neglect? Uncomfortable visits to the gynocologist? Spousal cheating and lying by the bucketload? Death by cancer? Ruthlessly rude and disrespectful teenagers? Marriage breakdowns? Drowning? Not just once, but twice? Lazy unresolved endings? How about 500 unnecessary references to urination – both public and private? Then BOY do I have the book for you! The Paper Palace tells the story of Elle and opens with […]

A positive reaction

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

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This delightful little story was gifted to me by a colleague for my birthday, with the promise that ‘it’s not a chemistry textbook’. Too right! Rather, it’s the tale of Chemist Elizabeth Zott – a fiercely intelligent woman who is up against it in the 1960s, trying to be taken seriously as a chemist despite her gender. She is belittled, bullied, and outright assaulted… yet never waivers in her devotion to science or her resolve to make her mark. It is during her tenure at […]

Tackling the wrong tough topic…

The Couple Upstairs by Holly Wainwright

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The Couple Upstairs is about two women. Mel, a Gen X divorced mother of two, struggling to keep her sanity and her kids engaged through the pandemic in Sydney. The other, Lori, a Gen Z backpacker pursuing a romantic relationship with a handsome Aussie bloke to who lives above Mel’s apartment. The bloke – Flynn – is the thread that connects these two women.  He forcibly reminds Mel of a man she dated while backpacking in her 20s for whom she has very complicated feelings. […]

Deja Vu all over again

The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

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In reviewing The Twisted Ones, I would be correct in summarising the plot as such: A young women with a silly nickname, recently single, upends her life and moves to a kooky new location to assist a family member in need. In moving, she is thrown into a world of magical intrigue. She befriends a zany local barista as the mystery at the heart of the magic unfurls. Eventually, she travels to a fantastical world accompanied by a sassy, fishnet wearing side kick, gets stuck […]



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