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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Beauty and the Yeast Infection

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas

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If this is what counts as a fairy love story these days, then consider me permanently checked out. A Court of Thorns and Roses is one of the most poorly written, boring, and utterly unbelievable ventures into fae romance I could imagine. Centered around a protagonist named Feyre — which is somehow both an absurd and fitting name for such a ridiculous character — the story begins with her starving in the woods and shooting a wolf with her bow and arrow. This apparently triggers […]

Talk to an adult, Harry!

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling, narrated by Stephen Fry

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My family and I have continued listening to the Stephen Fry–narrated Harry Potter audiobooks during long car rides to visit relatives. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the third book in the series, is one of my personal favourites. I especially love how it ties together the story so far while reaching back to James Potter’s own time at Hogwarts and the friendships he formed there. Listening to this instalment was particularly engaging for my eight-year-old, who asked plenty of questions and was always […]

The Walking Dull

Zone One by Colson Whitehead

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I’m not sure if Zone One by Colson Whitehead is actually a Pulitzer Prize winner or not, but I can tell you one thing: I’ve made it to the 30% mark and I can go no further. I have never been bored so stiff by a zombie novel in all my days—and I’ve read a lot of zombie novels. This meandering, overwritten, richly-prosed-but-empty-on-characterisation slog has almost killed my love of reading. I’ve been stuck on it for over two months and yet, every time I […]

Childe Roland to the dark tower came

The Dark Tower I: The Gungslinger by Stephen King

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After decades, I’ve decided to make my second pilgrimage to the Tower. The Gunslinger is the first in King’s most ambitious series, where his sprawling, multiversal, interconnected worlds are tied together.  Any Constant Reader worth their salt has made the trip to the Tower at least once. So as I stared down the final few weeks of my marathon training, I decided that I wanted my companion on the long, slow training runs to be Roland. In the world of the Dark Tower, “the man […]

Runner’s high

Elevation by Stephen King

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I stumbled upon this little novella of Mr King amongst the ‘suggested for you’ Kindle books. It surprised me a little to see a King novel that I both haven’t read AND haven’t heard of, but there it was on the list. So I quickly purchased it and gave it a whirl. In typical fashion, Elevation takes place in a small town in Maine: Castle Rock. Here we meet Scott Carey, a single middle aged white guy, who works at home and gets angry when […]

A most dangerous game

Under The Dome by Stephen King

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The thing about chess is, all the action happens on the board. There’s nowhere to hide. No extra $100 bill of Monopoly money stashed under the table. Every piece is in plain sight, every move accounted for. You might not always understand the consequences in the moment—but the game is visible. Transparent. Brutal. That same dynamic sits at the heart of Under the Dome. Then the dome falls, and the game begins. In Chester’s Mill, the players are already in place. Big Jim Rennie—second selectman, […]



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