Caesar’s Wife – Page 25 – Cannonball Read 17

Alternative Title: The Privilege of Being Idle

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell

May 5, 2020 by Caesar's Wife 3 Comments

I am not one to languish. I am the first to admit to being a Type-A, planning, achieving, goal-setter. I don’t just have mere ‘new years resolutions’; I have developed a sophisticated yearly goal-hierarchy system, linked to a capstone Theme, with performance measures and time-frames. I have a calendar of monthly ‘deep clean’ priorities around my house (this month: screens!). I book in a monthly Money Date Night with my husband where we review our budget and update our Net Wealth spreadsheet. I closely track […]

Crown of Mutation

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

April 14, 2020 by Caesar's Wife 1 Comment

My journey to Wilder Girls was thus: Get obsessed with the HBO Show, Devs Remember how much I like Alex Garland Re-watch Annihilation (a movie based off the first of the Southern Reach novels by Jeff VanderMeer) Go down the rabbit-hole reading Southern Reach reviews, spoilers, and theories Stumble across a Cannonball Read review which likened Wilder Girls to Annihilation Which brings me to now! I read through this novel over the Easter long weekend and was immediately captured by the imagery and premise. An […]

Normal Fallacy

Normal People by Sally Rooney

April 6, 2020 by Caesar's Wife Leave a Comment

Normal People is a story told about a man and a woman, whose lives clash together with varying results over the course of a few years. To make things interesting, this story kicks off in their final year of high school when most human beings are arguably at their worst. In the beginning, Connell is the attractive and popular senior, though far from wealthy. He’s a teenager of few words who gets on well with his single mother and tries hard at school. Though he […]

Bleak House

Unspeakable Things by Jess Lourey

March 22, 2020 by Caesar's Wife Leave a Comment

You know that crawling feeling you get at the back of your neck sometimes, when the tiny hairs hidden there start screaming at you that something is off? I got that in the opening pages of Unspeakable Things, as the main character Cassie innocently describes her dad massaging her older sister’s shoulders over a family game of monopoly. This scene was enough to tell me from the outset that something rotten dwells at the core of this family. *shudder*. Unspeakable Things tells a thoroughly unsettling […]

The Yucky One

The Lucky One by Caroline Overington

March 10, 2020 by Caesar's Wife Leave a Comment

In theory, The Lucky One should have been an easy 4-star review from me. The parallels between this book and my life are numerous. Australian author (I’m an Aussie! Tick) Story that takes place in Southern California (most of my family lives there! Tick) Complex female characters (Love them! Tick) Inheritance strife, mystery, and possible foul-play (Topical! Tick) Sympathetic female protagonist (That’s my jam! Tick) Despite all those ticks…. OHDEARGOD this novel was boring trash. The main storyline is this: a family trust is set […]

Basic Witch

The Possession by Michael Rutger

February 17, 2020 by Caesar's Wife 1 Comment

The first novel of Michael Rutger’s, which I read and reviewed for Cannonball last year, was an off-the-wall terrifying tome about a YouTube film crew getting lost in an isolated part of the Grand Canyon and stumbling upon a bizarre and terrifying relic of unknown earth history in the process. ‘The Anomaly’ was CRAZY and scary and addictive and disgusting and claustrophobic, somehow, laugh-out-loud funny at times. The characters were as close to flesh and bone as you can get in a spooky story and […]

Zirza on A Gothic Classic for a ReasonIt's one of those wish-you-could-read-it-again-for-the-first-time books. I loved it.
Emmalita on “It came to something when you found yourself hoping that the footsteps you heard were ghosts.”I loved the ending! I don’t think it’s been out long enough to talk about why though.
Dixie on Track Her Down by Melinda LeighI am just starting Track Her Down and I have read them all in order till now and thought I...
Roland of Gilead on How can you give us the gift of a crazy character named Rando Thoughtful and then just as suddenly take that gift away? We need to talk, Uncle Stevie.I came across this randomly years after it was written because I was searching "Random Thoughtful. But I have the...
Emmalita on “Only you, Em, would refer to heartbreak as a distraction. I think I would have a more sympathetic response if I asked to marry a bookcase.”Oh my goodness, Gallifrey was beautiful. I’m sure her mittens were gloriously murdery.

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