Caesar’s Wife – Page 30 – Cannonball Read 17

The triumphant return of the Constant Reader

The Outsider by Stephen King

April 2, 2019 by Caesar's Wife 2 Comments

I am a die-hard ‘constant reader’ of Stephen King, who has ridden the rollercoaster of almost all of his novels (particularly his classics). He is such prolific author, reliably churning out page-turners each year, so it is incredibly easy to just stick with his stable. In recent years, however, I’ve made a conscious effort to avoid his allure. I’ve tried my best to branch out, read new things. … But for my 6th Cannonball Read selection, I fell back into old habits. The Outsider is […]

It’s not you… it’s me.

The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner

March 17, 2019 by Caesar's Wife 1 Comment

The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner was given to me by my boss. I appealed to her good taste for help in finding my next Cannonball Read selection, as I knew she’d point me to something deep and meaningful. I was not wrong. The Mars Room read like a collection of thoughtful anecdotes from a life filled with tragedy. The novel commences with the musings, recollections, and observations of our main character as she barrels along in prison transport to serve a life sentence in […]

A chrysalis of drugs

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

February 9, 2019 by Caesar's Wife 3 Comments

I’ve literally just finished this novel, and am writing this before the prose has had time to dry in my mind. I feel that this is what the unnamed ‘protagonist’ of My Year of Rest and Relaxation would want. The only thing that would please her more would be if I had dry-swallowed my last musty Seroquel (collecting dust since 2008) from my jewelry box before turning on my laptop. My Year of Rest and Relaxation reads like one long, babbling sentence. It had very […]

Things that go ‘bump’ in the dark

The Anomaly by Michael Rutger

February 4, 2019 by Caesar's Wife 3 Comments

When I was a kid, my family and I went camping in the bush. On one particular hike, there was a tunnel called ‘The Wombat Hole’ that was notorious with the camping crowd. It was a gradually narrowing natural cave formation that you could walk into, but had to crawl out of on your belly. I’ve no doubt this natural wonder has long been shut, but the early 90s were a wild, unregulated time in Australian National Parks. So my Dad, tempted by the challenge […]

Timing is everything in ‘The Cabin at the End of the World’

The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay

February 4, 2019 by Caesar's Wife Leave a Comment

Not long ago, I became a mother . It’s been a roller-coaster ride of sleepless nights, sore nips, and a crippling love that is entirely alien. Sure, I love my husband. I love my corgi. But the love for that squishy little person is something else… something animalistic. I firmly believe that if I’d read The Cabin at the End of the World before entering the dizzying world of parenthood, I would have enjoyed it briefly and moved on. It is a page-turner with sufficient […]

The Emerald Circus is multi-faceted but disappoints

The Emerald Circus by Jane Yolen

January 12, 2019 by Caesar's Wife 3 Comments

When Kindle asked me to rate this out of 5 stars, I had a moment’s pause. My confession: it took me over six months to make it through this collection of 17 short stories by Jane Yolen. Some I read in a single sitting, desperately flicking through the pages without hesitation. But unfortunately, most of the stories were a hard slog that I struggled to finish. This is my first (and likely, last) Jane Yolen novel. The stories of The Emerald Circus are typically slanted […]

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