Cannonball Read 11

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G'day, I'm an Australian Cannonballer! I'm doing my first Half Cannonball to force me to once again prioritise reading in my life, and to tell cancer to Fuck Off of course. I'm a bit shy at commenting, but I absolutely love writing reviews.

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An ecofeminist tale of endings, beginnings, and inescapable duty.

The Wall by Marlen Haushofer

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I picked up the wall (second hand, of course) knowing nothing about it, other than it featured a humanity-ending catastrophe and potato propagation. Which in hindsight is an accurate, if not underselling, summary. I’m finding my mind fixated on adaptation lately. The earth is heating, the oceans are rising, the rain is refusing to fall. My environmental preoccupations, which I’ve struggled to push to the back of my mind since first learning of the hole in the ozone layer as a child, are no longer easily quashed and distracted. I’m doing everything I reasonably can to avert the continuing decline […]

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10/6/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:22 |

Spring has sprung, time to make some magic

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo

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It seems like serendipity that I should happen to finish Marie Kondo’s well-known 2014 guide to tidying up at the commencement of Spring here in the southern hemisphere.  I’ve been reading Kondo’s book on my bus to work (whenever I’m lucky enough to get a seat, that is), and have found it a delightful way to spend my commute. Almost everything about her book feels tidy, positive, and peaceful. I’m genuinely inspired to start my chattel cleanse. Her method now is extremely well-known – only keep the things in your life that ‘spark joy’, therefore making room in your material […]

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9/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:19 |

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 graduate, to judge’s associate, to complainant in her own criminal matter, was told with sincerity, […]

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9/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:18 |

It’s official: I suck.

On Being Awesome: A Unified Theory of How Not to Suck by Nick Riggle

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Up until reading Riggle’s book, I viewed each day of a series of choices. I choose whether to go for a run or snooze my alarm, I choose whether to have toast or cereal for breakfast, I choose my (hopefully tasteful) office-attire and whether to wear the impractical pumps or the comfy crocs. That’s a universal experience. But as soon as I interact with another human being, I have not thought about the choices that follow those interactions. I, like most capital-city dwelling sheeple, know how to line up, how to efficiently order a coffee, how to politely greet a […]

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9/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:17 |

How ‘The Ruins’ Ruined My Week

The Ruins by Scott Smith

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There can be something so unrelentingly creepy about killer plants. Pop culture is peppered with terrifying flora, from the shambling Triffid menace to the murderous Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors. As a kid, I remember being endlessly fascinated by an episode of Seaquest DSV featuring an invasive carnivorous cutting that nearly sank the submarine and killed all the crew. So when I picked up a copy of The Ruins, I noted with excitement the paperback cover adorned with thick green vines and blood red flowers. Could this book recapture the creeping fear of ferocious flora…? In short, nope. […]

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9/2/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:16 |

FLESH EATING ANCIENT SPIDER APOCALYPSE

The Hatching by Ezekiel Boone

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Have you ever wanted to read a story where an overweight, Steve Jobs knockoff gets explosive diarrhea in the jungle and then has his face eaten from the inside by a horde of prehistoric spiders? … No? Then this book probably isn’t for you. In my case, from the very first chapter, I was All. In. It was like a lower-brow version of World War Z. I liked the many viewpoints, the world-wide scale, and the attempts at character development. Along the way, I found I had to keep checking in with myself, to see if I really had the […]

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8/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:15 |

“I was so good at being a kid, and so terrible at being whatever I was now.”

Turtles All The Way Down by John Green

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How is it that a middle-aged man is able to express the inner workings of an anxious teenage girl so well? The only writing I know is to “write what you know”, so it always blows me away when authors are able to so skilfully step into the shoes of the unfamiliar. In “Turtles All The Way Down”, John Green has captured my heart again. Reading this novel is like stepping into a time machine: when your Mom is like a loving but frustrating alien, your best friend is your universe, and the boy you like is simultaneously enchanting and […]

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7/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:14 |

Fast Times at Feminist High

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

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I spend a lot of time reading about, thinking about, and listening to podcasts about feminism. I’m a proud feminist who does not find the word dirty or inflammatory. I kept my surname when I married, I support my staff to maintain work-life balance and progress their careers regardless of gender, and I appreciate when pop-culture gives a nod to feminism (I’m looking at you, The Meg… a movie I recently defended to a friend on the basis that it is an important feminist addition to the shark-movie genre). On that basis, it was refreshing to read a novel where […]

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6/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:13 |


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