Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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I'm tired of cancer eating my friends and family. I'm not a scientist, but I'm stubborn and I love books - so I'll be fundraising the sad and powerless right outta my hair.

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Size positive novel with an amazing friend group

Chubby & Charming by Mary E Thompson

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This is one of the few truly size positive books I’ve read.  I’ve seen a couple of reviews at amazon that were super negative about this, and wow, I am unimpressed. I hated Mandy’s attitude of ‘I’m too fat to be lovable’.’  Mandy was just a whiny b*tch who didn’t deserve Xander, not because of her weight but because of her personality. The above is a paraphrased summary of a review that really bothered me, because I am fat chick, like Mandy, and I found […]

Poppy is a delight!

Digging Up Dirt by Pamela Hart

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What a charming book this was!  I’m thrilled to realise I’ve got several more of these to read over the rest of the holidays. Poppy works for the ABC, writing educational videos for kids, which she then produces.  She’s bought a cute little place somewhere in Sydney (this is described, but my mental map of Sydney is awful), but renovations find bones under the floorboards that may be human.  While they turn out not to be, they’re still old enough to have to call in […]

I liked this a lot better than the series

The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes

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This one chased me for a while, then went on special right before the the tv series came out. I liked it a lot (and had consequential high hopes for the series that were not realised in the pilot.  Our readings of the novel may differ, but I never noticed time flickering and changing small things in the way it did in the pilot, and was not happy with the change).  The protagonist is Kirby, the girl who got away, hideously injured (and the dog […]

A Failed Attempt at Meaning

Dirt Town by Hayley Scrivenor

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This is the story of a missing kid, told from multiple perspectives.  Her best friend, the gay mate (these are so thinly drawn they may as well have been named “girlie” and “token”), her mother, and on and on.  It works to a point, but there’s also a “we” voice, and those voices are just a bridge too far.  Its supposed to be a deeper, spirit of the forest/all missing children whispering to us thing, and it is an UTTER fail.  Kills momentum, never fails […]

Just to see what everyone was talking about

The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley

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I believe this was a Reese Witherspoon pick, as well.  For a while there, it certainly seemed to be everywhere, so when I needed to spend another $15 to get free shipping from Target, I added it to the cart. I admit, I read it on a plane from Melbourne to Sydney, and did NOT read it closely enough to have pegged the family angle, or the identity of the corpse.  It’s either nicely played, or I wasn’t paying attention – let’s give it to […]

I am yearning for more of these books.

Lady Helena Investigates by Jane Steen

Lady Odelia's Secret by Jane Steen

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I finished the second book in this series yesterday, and I am already impatient for the next. If Elizabeth Bennet was crossed with Harriet Vane, you’d have Lady Helena. Widowed at the start of Lady Helena Investigates, and quite bereft, Lady Helena remains determined (a) not to marry again in a hurry (if ever) and (b) not to allow her brother (the Earl and head of the family) to steamroll her into running her estate his way.  Helena is the youngest in a family spread […]



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