Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

We built BrisVegas on rock and roll

Pig City by Andrew Stafford

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  Pig City chronicles a brief yet transformative period of Brisbane life, from the 70s through to the 90s, but this is no ordinary history book. The story is told mainly through the lens of music and politics and shows how the two influenced each other in a time when Brisbane was still coming of age.  The ‘BrisVegas’ tag jokingly likens the country town where there’s not much to do (as Brisbane was up until the late eighties) with Las Vegas. Beginning in the seventies, the […]

Nonetheless, I still want to be a lighthouse keeper

The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman

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I read Ahab’s Wife at an impressionable age and it filled me with a deep hatred of whales (unfair to them, I know) and a fierce desire to be a lighthouse keeper. Despite many things keeping me from a serious pursuit of such an endeavor (I keep moving further and further away from the ocean, the aforementioned hatred of whales, my reliance on the internet…) I will always jump at the chance to read something lighthouse adjacent. The Light Between Oceans starts off strong- a quiet and […]

I was not as entertained as many were

The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

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Don Tillman is a genetics professor at a university in Australia who has decided that it is time to find a wife.  He has tried dating before to disastrous results, and stumbles upon the idea that a questionnaire will help mitigate the disasters.  He asks a fellow professor and friend, Gene, to help him. Gene is a notorious playboy, trying to sleep with women from as many countries as possible.  He is also an ass for not seeing that the “open marriage” he has with […]

The legal feminist memoir I’ve been waiting for…

Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee

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Bri Lee’s honest story has held me captive through an awful bout of influenza in the last 4 days. Nightly, I’ve taken to waking up drenched in fevered sweats and been incapable of falling back to sleep. This flu season is not mucking around. But it’s been an honour to drag my disgusting virus-riddled self to the couch, turn on the muted living-room lamp, and read her words til the sound of birdsong let me know the sun was coming up.  Her journey from law […]

More teens taking on social justice, Australian edition!

Amelia Westlake Was Never Here by Erin Gough

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CBR11Bingo – Far and Away! This book is set in Australia, which according to a random internet website, is about halfway around the world from me. Will Everhart loathes her life at her new stuffy school Rosemead girls’ academy.  She’s always fought loudly on the side of injustice, leaving her a little lonely and unliked at her public school, but that’s only exacerbated here.  Even though the principal has got an eye on her, and even though her grades are failing, she still can’t keep […]

“Every Love Story is a Ghost Story”

Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley

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Bingo Square: Cannonballer Says Caitlin_D posted her review of Words in Deep Blue a few days before I got on the Cannonball Read site in late June for some book inspiration.  I hadn’t exactly been paying much attention to new releases, so I quickly ended up discovering that some previously enjoyed authors had new novels out which were promptly added to the cart.  Between the review, the title and the cover, something about this novel appealed to me, so it too made the cut (I […]



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