Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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I can only suspend my disbelief until my imaginary parachute fails

All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton

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Molly Hook is a gravedigger’s daughter stuck in a pretty miserable existence in Darwin, 1942, as the Japanese bombs start raining from the sky. After losing her mum at a very young age, she spends her days digging up graves for her father and uncle’s nefarious purposes, kept company by her friend Bert the shovel. She longs to solve the puzzle of the curse placed on her grandfather and which has plagued multiple generations of her family since. To do this she needs to go […]

The genius behind the clown

Reckoning by Magda Szubanski

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Another of my Christmas books ticked off the ‘to be read’ list.  Magda Szubanski is an Australian icon and a treasure. She has appeared on most of our tv sets at one point or another, usually in the form of Sharon, the nation’s most famous second-best friend, in arguably the country’s best ever sitcom Kath and Kim. This autobiography, written with emotion, honesty and flair, winds it way around a long road that eventually reveals the threads that bind person and character. When I say […]

love the world and make it better

this one wild and precious life by Sarah Wilson

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I’ve long been a fan of Sarah Wilson’s work, first discovering her through I Quit Sugar and then her zero-waste cookbook Simplicious Flow. Her ethos of buying food in season, in as little packaging as possible, using every bit of it, and making the best use of scraps and leftovers really resonated as something we could all strive towards as a way of living a little more lightly on our one precious planet. this one wild and precious life extends on the planet saving theme, […]

Explorers will never cease to amaze me

Shackleton: the story of Ernest Shackleton and the Antarctic Explorers by Gavin Mortimer

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One of the books I read last year led me to the realisation that I had no idea about the adventures of Ernest Shackleton or other early explorers of Antarctica. Deciding I needed to fix this immediately, I went on my local library site and placed a hold on the first book that came up when I searched ‘Shackleton’. What landed in my lap the following week was the kind of book you’d read for a Year 7 social science assignment, but I read it […]

A nice little gem in the waste reduction arena

Waste Not by Erin Rhoads

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‘Make a big difference by throwing away less’ is the premise of this book on how to reduce waste in all aspects of your life. One of the things I liked best about it is that the author starts off by openly admitting she used to do the complete opposite, buying into the ‘more more more’ consumer lifestyle, and has had to figure out low waste strategies along the way. The book is set out in three sections – Tools, Tips and Tricks. The Tools […]

Electric Nightmares

The Electric State by Simon Stalenhag

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It’s 1997 and a teenage girl is making her way across a post-apocolyptic looking USA.  She has a robot with her but we don’t know why or how they came to be companions. There are surreal sci-fi landscapes and lots of dead people with strange electric things covering their heads. Well that’s my 3 sentence synopsis that I wrote in my reading journal.  It’s hard for me to write this one because I’m not a sci-fi reader.  But my dear son gifted me this book […]



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