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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Wanderers by Chuck Wendig

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For the first third of Wanderers, it seems like this is a fairly straight forward mystery: what is making seemingly healthy, random people rise from their beds and sleepwalk in a group across America? They have no uniting characteristics and no history of sleepwalking. They cannot be stopped or else they heat up and literally explode (it’s as gross as you imagine). They do not eat, defecate, speak, or even blink. Syringes cannot pierce their skin. They move in tandem silently, like a school of […]

Salty Dog

Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

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Something strange happens to you when you cross that threshold from ‘woman’ to ‘mother’. Time becomes elastic, thoughts become deafening, nights fill with waking while days fill with sleep, and sleep becomes an endless battle. There is a loneliness felt deep in your bones when you’re awake and feeding your young at 3am, the world around you still and quiet. It’s a moment in time that is hard to touch with stories and fiction. Brief yet endless. My son is now four and his baby […]

Pumped Up Kicks

Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton

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Three Hours of what, you ask? A school shooting. I know, I know. It’s 2021. Things are bad enough. Why would you want to read a book about a school shooting? Because it’s really well done. It’s obviously an incredibly heavy topic that must be approached carefully, but Lupton has done that (and more). The first smart choice she made was to base the siege in the United Kingdom. The second smart choice she made was to do her research. A lot of research… and […]

Space Spiders!

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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Tchaikovsky has conducted a fascinating thought experiment in ‘Children of Time’ – what if spiders evolved rapidly and became the dominant species on a world bereft of humans? This is the first in a trilogy of books that takes place in the distant future. Humanity is on the brink of destroying our once hospitable planet, and so have reached out to the stars to terraform new worlds in case things continue to go south here at home. Never content to leave well enough alone, humanity […]

Weird me up, Buttercup

Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh

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Allie Brosh is an internet darling. Her webcomics published on her blog Hyperbole and a Half in the 2000s and her crude drawings never fail to make me chuckle. And her latest published book, Solutions and Other Problems, continues her story where it left off. Brosh is wonderful. But she’s also intensely weird in the way that tells you there is a lot going on for her. She illustrates incredibly hilarious stories that transition to tragedy so quickly you’ll get stuck somewhere between laughing and […]

Ride like the wind, Princess!

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Vol. 1) by Hayao Miyazaki

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Nausicaa is my favourite Miyazaki film, so it makes sense that it should be my first step into the world of Manga.  Volume 1 of this tale introduces us to Nausicaa and her adventurous spirit, riding high on her glider and exploring the toxic jungle, home to all manner of giant insects including the mysterious Ohm. Nausicaa is the princess of the Valley of the WInd but you won’t find any fancy gowns and petticoats in her wardrobe. She’s smart, curious, brave, and incredibly compassionate. […]



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