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.)

Caesar's Wife's Reviews:

Death Becomes Her

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

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I feel like a ‘real’ cannonballer, now that I’ve finally tackled Gideon the Ninth. I feel like I see this book all over Cannonball Read, and that it comes highly acclaimed. The quote on the front cover sums it up fairly well: Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space! Decadent nobles vie to service the deathless emperor! Skeletons! This is a fantasy novel, focussing on Gideon – a plucky upstart who wields her sharp sword and tongue with aplomb. She’s scathing, she’s edgy, […]

Bodily Farm

The Farm by Joanne Ramos

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The Farm is a story about high-end surrogacy – who runs it, who uses it, and who provides it. But it is also so much more than that. It is a meaningful examination of womanhood and all the ways women inadvertently hurt each other, when all we are trying to do is help. It is quietly heartbreaking, yet non-judgemental. The central character is Jane – an immigrant from the Philippines who lives with her fellow immigrants in a shared dormitory with her baby. Jane progresses […]

A Very Quaint Quarantine

Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak

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What a cute idea – a family forced into a seven-day isolation over Christmas. How novel! What an unexpected scenario! I wonder what hijinks will unfold as a family is thrust together in isolation for a whole week! Oh wait. Literally everyone has lived this experience in 2020 and it is neither cute nor novel nor quaint. Oh dear. I feel terrible for Hornak, the author of The Seven Days of Us. She published this little tale in 2017, before the ‘rona hit. What are […]

I Know Why the Caged Nerd Sings

Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline

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The internet likes to crap on Ready Player One, the pop-culture-reference laden tale of the ultimate MMORPG quest to literally own the internet. People look back on that book with dripping distain, calling it out for toxic nerd culture, gate-keeping fandoms, and glorifying having an encyclopediac knowledge of useless movie references. But I really enjoyed it! It made me laugh, referenced a bunch of silly crap that I like, and it entertained me for a few hours. I didn’t see the harm. Hell, I even […]

Life… uh… finds a way

The Last by Hanna Jameson

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An American history professor is in a hotel in Switzerland for a conference, along with his colleagues and a melting pot of holidaying families, travellers, and staff, when the bombs begin to fall. As the hotel patrons and staff begin to panic, many flee but a handful remain. These lost souls attempt to band together as the clouds in the sky turn orange and the rain turns radioactive. Cut off from the world as the internet fails and power supply is cut, they begin to […]

Borderline Personality Disorder Unpacked

Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking your life back when someone you care about has borderline personality disorder by Paul T Mason and Randi Kreger

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This is a tough book to review, but I’ll try my best. If you know, or suspect, someone in your life is suffering from BPD (and rest assured – they are truly suffering and in pain) and you perform a random google search seeking help, you’ll get billions of hits. Factsheets, support groups, horror-stories…. A significant portion of the internet is devoted to BPD because it is such a nefarious condition/disease/illness (I am not a mental health advocate or professional, so apologies if I’m using […]



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