Caesar’s Wife – Page 28 – Cannonball Read 17

The legal feminist memoir I’ve been waiting for…

Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee

September 17, 2019 by Caesar's Wife 1 Comment

Bri Lee’s honest story has held me captive through an awful bout of influenza in the last 4 days. Nightly, I’ve taken to waking up drenched in fevered sweats and been incapable of falling back to sleep. This flu season is not mucking around. But it’s been an honour to drag my disgusting virus-riddled self to the couch, turn on the muted living-room lamp, and read her words til the sound of birdsong let me know the sun was coming up. Her journey from law […]

It’s official: I suck.

On Being Awesome: A Unified Theory of How Not to Suck by Nick Riggle

September 11, 2019 by Caesar's Wife Leave a Comment

Up until reading Riggle’s book, I viewed each day of a series of choices. I choose whether to go for a run or snooze my alarm, I choose whether to have toast or cereal for breakfast, I choose my (hopefully tasteful) office-attire and whether to wear the impractical pumps or the comfy crocs. That’s a universal experience. But as soon as I interact with another human being, I have not thought about the choices that follow those interactions. I, like most capital-city dwelling sheeple, know […]

How ‘The Ruins’ Ruined My Week

The Ruins by Scott Smith

September 2, 2019 by Caesar's Wife 2 Comments

There can be something so unrelentingly creepy about killer plants. Pop culture is peppered with terrifying flora, from the shambling Triffid menace to the murderous Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors. As a kid, I remember being endlessly fascinated by an episode of Seaquest DSV featuring an invasive carnivorous cutting that nearly sank the submarine and killed all the crew. So when I picked up a copy of The Ruins, I noted with excitement the paperback cover adorned with thick green vines and blood […]

FLESH EATING ANCIENT SPIDER APOCALYPSE

The Hatching by Ezekiel Boone

August 4, 2019 by Caesar's Wife 3 Comments

Have you ever wanted to read a story where an overweight, Steve Jobs knockoff gets explosive diarrhea in the jungle and then has his face eaten from the inside by a horde of prehistoric spiders? … No? Then this book probably isn’t for you. In my case, from the very first chapter, I was All. In. It was like a lower-brow version of World War Z. I liked the many viewpoints, the world-wide scale, and the attempts at character development. Along the way, I found […]

“I was so good at being a kid, and so terrible at being whatever I was now.”

Turtles All The Way Down by John Green

July 10, 2019 by Caesar's Wife Leave a Comment

How is it that a middle-aged man is able to express the inner workings of an anxious teenage girl so well? The only writing I know is to “write what you know”, so it always blows me away when authors are able to so skilfully step into the shoes of the unfamiliar. In “Turtles All The Way Down”, John Green has captured my heart again. Reading this novel is like stepping into a time machine: when your Mom is like a loving but frustrating alien, […]

Fast Times at Feminist High

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

June 30, 2019 by Caesar's Wife 1 Comment

I spend a lot of time reading about, thinking about, and listening to podcasts about feminism. I’m a proud feminist who does not find the word dirty or inflammatory. I kept my surname when I married, I support my staff to maintain work-life balance and progress their careers regardless of gender, and I appreciate when pop-culture gives a nod to feminism (I’m looking at you, The Meg… a movie I recently defended to a friend on the basis that it is an important feminist addition […]

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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