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.)

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Willow Case

The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher

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The Hollow Places is an atmospheric and spooky novel, but not outright terrifying. It tapped into my weird fear of roots/plants gone bad (see The Ruins) effectively and swept me away nicely for a short and easy read. But I’m getting ahead of myself, aren’t I? Let’s go back to the beginning. Kara, or ‘Carrot’ as she’s affectionately known, is in a bit of a mess. She’s just divorced her partner and is looking for a fresh start. When her uncle, the owner of The Museum […]

Tears and Trauma

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

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Ok, so the blurb for this book describes it as ‘heartbreaking and hilarious’, and I need to have a very stern word to the editor because WOW there is nothing hilarious in this book. Jennette McCurdy has, unflinchingly and honestly, recounted a lifetime of abuse at the hands of her mother within these pages. You think Dance Moms are bad? They don’t have #$%& on Mrs McCurdy. The McCurdy household used and abused their youngest, Jennette, and forced her into child stardom. She was trotted […]

The book that made me realise: my husband is a philosopher.

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

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I feel like, rather than review this book, you should just go read it. Or listen to it, like I did, for free on Audible. It’s not terribly long and it’s well narrated. Highly consumable. Because how on earth am I supposed to review a book that is basically one giant, really good quote about getting your shit together and being less of a competitive, materialistic arsehole? At least that was my main take away. It’s just a whole mess of good advice and sensible […]

Oh Ford, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

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It seems like the thing to do is to consider Brave New World and 1984 as a pair. And I can certainly understand why, as both are set in a future that is wildly different, yet similarly terrifying. Brave New World begins with an in-depth look at the selective breeding and conditioning that now moulds the human race. No more mothers, no more fathers, no more family units, no more chance to ‘rise above your station’. Now, humanity is one giant balanced equation. From the […]

Glow baby, glow

Phosphorescence by Julia Baird

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If you’re to Google this book, you’ll note that it is the winner of the Australian Book Industry BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD (emphasis not added, this just seems to be an award that comes with CAPITAL LETTERS). You’ll read that it is about ‘awe, wonder, and things that sustain us’. If you access the audiobook version, as I did, you’ll experience hours of Baird’s breathless, softly spoken and earnest voice in your ears. You’ll hear her talk of surviving cancer, and relationship breakdowns. She […]

The slayer of the vampyres

Buffy the Last Vampire Slayer - Vol 1 by Casey Gilly

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I’m currently in the midst of a tandem Buffy/Angel rewatch, while listening to the episode-by-episode companion podcasts Buffering the Vampire Slayer and Angel on Top. It’s turned into quite the commitment and I feel very immersed into the Buffyverse once more. It feels a bit like coming home. Coming of age alongside Buffy was a formative experience. As a teen, Buffy was my constant companion. As she was slaying physical demons, I was slaying mental demons. I watched her fall in love for the first time as I […]



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