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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Wealth Economics

The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047 by Lionel Shriver

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The Mandibles are a complex family Perched at the top of the family tree is the obscenely wealthy aging patriarch and his second wife, who live a life of luxury in an assisted living home for the richest of the rich. They spend their days admiring their collection of first editions in their library and enjoying the fruits of their wealth. Next branch down is the doting son who bites his tongue while longing for his inheritance to come to fruition, and the distant daughter […]

Aussie Comedian Memoir Double Feature

Ten Steps to Nanette by Hannah Gadsby

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I just finished reading two memoirs by Australian comedians concurrently: Hannah Gadsby’s ‘Ten Steps to Nanette’ and ‘Challenge Accepted’ by Celeste Barber. The parallels and differences between each were, in a word, fascinating, so that is why I am reviewing both together. Gadsby’s tone throughout was dire. She recounted the damage and traumas she’s endured over a lifetime – from her sexuality, her neural diversity, her physical appearance, and her family relationships… she has been through the ringer. She is diagnosed as autistic, has been […]

Management Matters

Becoming a Better Boss by Julian Birkinshaw

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What makes a good boss? What separates the worst managers from the best? How can you keep your team happy and engaged, even as they and the work continues to grow and change? How can you get the leadership balance right between overlord and buddy? These are the questions that plague me. It’s no small thing to have a group of smart, caring, and committed people looking to you each weekday (and some weekends too) for guidance and support. People are incredibly complex and bring […]

Burn it all

Fail State by John Birmingham

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This short book follows a few groups of survivors as they struggle for life and liberty following the ‘Day Zero’ event that has taken down North America. I think John Birmingham is an Aussie writer who just really really loves destroying the USA. I swear every novel of his that I have read finds a new and awful way to take down the states. Fail State (which I now see is actually #2 in his ‘End Of Days’ trilogy) continues this theme in fairly predictable […]

Niche

The Carbon-Neutral Adventures of the Indefatigable Enviroteens by First Dog on the Moon

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If you haven’t heard of First Dog on the Moon, let me illuminate: First Dog on the Moon is Australia’s only Walkley award-winning marsupial-based cartoonist and has done all sorts of things including books, radio, stage shows and a lot of lying down First Dog on the Moon cartoons feature weekly in The Guardian and are typically silly-yet-scathing takedowns of politicians and the various ways in which they fail us. I picked this long-form version of First Dog up from the library, as I always […]

Who’s the real barbearian? (see what I did there?)

Bear Head by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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Bear Head is an award winning science fiction novel about a settlement on Mars, a Martian junkie, a despicable politician, and an admirable Bear. Most of the novel is told through they eyes of Jimmy Martin, the aforementioned junkie. Jimmy (Jimbles, Jimbo) is a human who travelled to Mars to help build a settlement for the future. His body and mind have been adapted so that he can survive the harsh environment, and he spends his days completing menial labor while popping ‘stringer’ to keep […]



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