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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The times, they are a-changing

Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport

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Reading Cal Newport’s ‘Digital Minimalism’ reminded me of training my dog when she was a puppy. She was a hedonistic ball of fluffy energy and razor-sharp teeth. She would piddle on the floor, playfully bite the bejeezus out of my hands, and stay up til the early hours doing pointless activities. I was only a few pages deep into the book when it struck me: when it comes to my use of tech, I’ve become an out-of-control puppy. I’ve been a digital hedonist, never bothering […]

Haunted.

Ghosts by Dolly Alderton

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Dolly Alderton is one half of the fabulous ‘Sentimental Garbage’ podcast duo. who I fell in love with through their deep-dives into Sex and the City. Once Alderton’s voice was in my head, it was easy to shift gears from podcast to fiction and embrace her novel Ghosts which, in many ways, felt like it could have been a re-imagining of Sex and the City, circa London in 2020. Or maybe an updated Bridget Jones Diary. As the title indicates, Ghosts tackles the singularly horrific […]

World War V: Part III

City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin

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This is the third and final novel in Cronin’s vampire trilogy (or as I like to think of it: Cronin’s vampire trilogy for people who actually aren’t too fussed on vampires but just enjoy a big epic story). The first novel, ‘The Passage’, introduced us to the vampire plague and then jumped forward 100 years as the last vestiges of humanity desperately try to hold on to their grip on the world. The second novel, ‘The Twelve’, showed how the best and worst of humanity […]

World War V: Part II

The Twelve by Justin Cronin

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The first book in this series, The Passage (my previous review), has forced me to do something I haven’t done in a long time: commit to a trilogy. A proper, lengthy, complex trilogy. I can’t remember the last time a series got its hooks into me so well. Quite a few of my cannonball reviews over the years have covered off on the first of a series. Gideon the Ninth, The Hatching, The Mummy Bloggers… None of these compelled me to continue. But Cronin’s epic vampire epidemic series […]

World War V

The Passage by Justin Cronin

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Justin Cronin’s ‘The Passage’ is the first in a trilogy of novels about the end of the world via vampire plague. But there are no sparkling vampires here. No slayers. No blunt metaphors. This is a genuinely frightening story of a foolish government experiment that lets loose a horrific plague across the continental USA. The novel spans almost 100 years, beginning with an ill-fated expedition to the wilderness in Bolivia, continuing through the stealth scientific testing of the newly discovered virus on death-row subjects, then […]

Unhappy Meal

Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

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Imagine a world ravaged by diseased animals, where humanity collectively agrees to cull all animals and, in their place, breed humans for consumption. That is the terrifying premise at the centre of Tender is the Flesh, a dystopian novel by Argentine author Agustina Bazterrica (translated to English by Sarah Moses). This book disturbed me to my very core and motivated me to cancel my recent butcher-box delivery subscription. The novel describes, in great detail, the process of slaughtering humans for meat. Though never explicitly said, […]



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