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G'day, I'm an Australian Cannonballer! I'm a horror/thriller junkie embarking on my second Half-Cannonball. I'm a bit shy at commenting, but I absolutely love writing and reading reviews.

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Literary Roadkill

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk

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Haunted is a series of short stories and poems, loosely related insofar as each is written from the perspective of different member of a group of degenerate sociopaths locked together in a masochistic “Writers’ Retreat”. **trigger warning** this review mentions some extreme and horrific aspects of the book, including miscarriage. The backbone of Haunted that ties each poem and short story together is a horrific three-month-long “Writers’ Retreat”. Each character with a poem and story to tell throughout the novel apparently answered a mysterious advertisement […]

Alternative Title: The Privilege of Being Idle

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell

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I am not one to languish. I am the first to admit to being a Type-A, planning, achieving, goal-setter. I don’t just have mere ‘new years resolutions’; I have developed a sophisticated yearly goal-hierarchy system, linked to a capstone Theme, with performance measures and time-frames. I have a calendar of monthly ‘deep clean’ priorities around my house (this month: screens!). I book in a monthly Money Date Night with my husband where we review our budget and update our Net Wealth spreadsheet. I closely track […]

Crown of Mutation

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

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My journey to Wilder Girls was thus: Get obsessed with the HBO Show, Devs Remember how much I like Alex Garland Re-watch Annihilation (a movie based off the first of the Southern Reach novels by Jeff VanderMeer) Go down the rabbit-hole reading Southern Reach reviews, spoilers, and theories Stumble across a Cannonball Read review which likened Wilder Girls to Annihilation Which brings me to now! I read through this novel over the Easter long weekend and was immediately captured by the imagery and premise. An […]

Normal Fallacy

Normal People by Sally Rooney

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Normal People is a story told about a man and a woman, whose lives clash together with varying results over the course of a few years. To make things interesting, this story kicks off in their final year of high school when most human beings are arguably at their worst. In the beginning, Connell is the attractive and popular senior, though far from wealthy. He’s a teenager of few words who gets on well with his single mother and tries hard at school. Though he […]

Bleak House

Unspeakable Things by Jess Lourey

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You know that crawling feeling you get at the back of your neck sometimes, when the tiny hairs hidden there start screaming at you that something is off? I got that in the opening pages of Unspeakable Things, as the main character Cassie innocently describes her dad massaging her older sister’s shoulders over a family game of monopoly. This scene was enough to tell me from the outset that something rotten dwells at the core of this family. *shudder*. Unspeakable Things tells a thoroughly unsettling […]



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