Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Good ideas for living your best life, if not overly practical.

Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way by Dan Buettner

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I put this on hold at the library ages ago – it must still be really popular even though it was first published in 2010 (why does it still freak me out that 2010 was TWELVE years ago?!). Anyway, I wanted to read it because I’ve read a bunch of other stuff by Dan Buettner and listened to him being interviewed a few times and he just sounds like a really cool guy. Thrive starts off with a chapter about the ‘truth’ of happiness – […]

It’s what happens when you keep trying to write about a limited subject.

Love People, Use Things: Because the Opposite Never Works by Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus

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I picked up this book from the library as I saw my friend reading it and I have read material from The Minimalists in the past. Having been a bit caught up in the ‘decluttering craze’ on and off for several years now, I am always looking for inspiration to free my home from useless and excess crap. However, there is a problem here. There’s only so many ways to say ‘chuck out your crap’ or ‘live with less’ or ‘say farewell to anything that […]

Behind every name there is a story

Honeybee by Craig Silvey

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I had absolutely no idea what this book was about nor had I read anything else by Craig Silvey when I chose to download it as the ‘free book of the month’ from Audible. Rarely do I give out a 5 star rating but this book was totally worth it. I’m going to try to describe it without giving too much away. It starts with young teenager Sam meeting elderly gent Vic on a bridge, as they are both about to end their lives. From […]

Strong writing as expected but I might have enjoyed it more 38 years ago

Shallows by Tim Winton

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Continuing with my project to read all of Tim Winton’s novels this year, I have just finished Shallows, first published in 1984. As usual for his works, the location and geography feature strongly and I was happily thrown into an immediate sense of place along the south coast of Western Australia. In the small town of Angelus, everyone knows everyone and the inhabitants have been there for generations. It’s the late 1970s and when some Greenies have arrived to protest whaling, the historic economic driver […]

Essential reading about climate change solutions

Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for our Clean Energy Future by Saul Griffith

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I got this book from the library after listening to an interview with the author on one of my favourite podcasts (Wild, with Sarah Wilson). The whole book is an argument for why electrifying everything is the biggest (albeit not the only) way to fight climate change while creating millions of new jobs, a healthy environment and cheaper electricity for all. Although I’m in Australia and this book is about what the USA can do, I still learnt a lot and had many misconceptions challenged. […]

Learn about language AND cults at the same time? Yes, thanks.

Cultish: The Language of Fanatacism by Amanda Montell

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I read this book after placing it on my TBR list following a great review on this very website. It did not disappoint (to say the least). Cultish explains how language is used in cults (and ‘cultish’ organisations) to lure people in and keep them there. From love-bombs to thought-terminating cliches, language is just about the most powerful tool to make people feel like they belong swiftly followed by making them feel terrified of the consequences if they leave. Scientology, as an example, has so […]



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