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:

The search for nourishment

The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta

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When I think of ‘the leftovers’, my mind wanders to Thursday night’s dinner in my house. That’s leftovers night. It’s a bit sad, wilted, disappointing. Though it’s been zapped in the microwave, it’s not piping hot all the way through. There are cold patches within. It feels a little like giving up. Sure, you’re doing the Right Thing by not wasting what is left, but it’s not the same as it was before. It’s less. And that cannot be overcome. That’s what life is like […]

Slayer Shenanigans

Slayers: A Buffyverse Story by Amber Benson and Christopher Golden

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Slayers is an 8 hour story, written by Amber Benson and Christopher Golden, that brings back many of the original actors to reprise their roles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer (AKA my favourite TV series, ever). But I’m going to try to be objective in this review, and not just spend 250 words squealing about James Marsters amazing return to Spike and how fun it was to hear these old friends again. Going into this audiobook, I stupidly assumed that this would be a typical […]

Wherein plagarism is an insincere form of flattery

Yellowface by R. F. Kuang

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Yellowface is a story about a brilliant writer, Juniper, who lacks ideas. She is cursed with a very successful writer friend, Athena, who churns out best sellers like it’s no big thang. June and Athena are hanging out one evening, drinking and laughing and actually acting like the friends they sorta kinda are, when Athena chokes to death on a pandan-flavoured pancake. Though June is a bit rattled by this experience, she decides in teh moment to steal Athena’s latest, secret manuscript before leaving the […]

A quest for fulfilment

Piglet by Lottie Hazell

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Piglet is the nickname of the lead of this tale of wedding woe. She’s a cookbook editor with a loving fiance, a supportive social network, and family who loves and understands her. Or, is she? In the fortnight leading up to her elaborate and long-awaited wedding, her fiance confesses infidelity. We, the reader, never learn the sordid details of his unfaithfulness, because it doesn’t really matter what he did, right? It matters that he did it. It’s the betrayal that eats away at Piglet. But […]

Beep Boop

Annie Bot by Sierra Greer

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Annie Bot is a robotic Cuddle Bunny, designed and owned by Doug. Doug designed her to closely resemble his ex-wife who, shock horror, left his judgmental ass because… he’s a judgmental ass! So he does what any asshole with sufficient funds would do: he buys a custom robot to first clean, then pleasure him. Annie Bot is his slave in every regard and she wants nothing more than to please him. She spends her confined life walking on eggshells around him, constantly monitoring his levels […]

The Powerful Pivot

Machiavelli For Women by Stacey Vanek Smith

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Machiavelli for Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace is a self-help novel through the lens of The Prince. What can women learn from Machiavelli and apply in the 21st century workplace? A fair bit, as it turns out. Smith has done a decent job here of breaking down the struggles that women face in the professional world and how, with a bit of knowledge, perspective, and strategy, these struggles can be overcome. The book is peppered with real case studies […]



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