Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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G'day, I'm an Australian Cannonballer! I'm a horror/thriller junkie embarking on my eighth Half-Cannonball. I'm a bit shy at commenting, but I absolutely love writing and reading reviews. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Caesar’s Wife's Quick Questions interview.)

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A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by Charlie Fletcher

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Yes, I read another post-apocalyptic fiction! No, I’m NOT sorry! This story is about Griz, a teen who lives on a small island in the Hebrides. Griz is alone except for a mum, a dad, sisters, and two beloved dogs, Jess and Jip. They are alone because they live in the years following The Gelding, an event which saw birth rates across the planet plummet and most of humanity perish (either with a whimper or a bang, depending on which outgoing philosophy the dying chose). […]

Through a wizened glass

The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass by Stephen King

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Wizard and Glass is number four in Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, and this is my second trip to the Tower. As a long Constant Reader, I always had mixed feelings about this book when I thought back on it. Most of the story takes place with Roland telling his ka-tet about his childhood and his first love, Susan, the girl in the window. It tells the story of three boys who are sent away, supposedly to keep them safe from being caught up in […]

Possession-Lite

Come Closer by Sara Gran

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Come Closer is a very short novel about a woman who is happily married (is she?) with a comfortable but rewarding lifestyle (is it?) who suddenly starts having some pretty funky dreams that unsettle her deeply (do they?). I love a good possession story. Give me some strained pea vomit and speaking in tongues any day. Scary stuff. But Come Closer goes to a potentially even scarier place. What if all those things were happening to you but you kind of, sort of… liked it? […]

Going to Dark Places

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

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Dark Places tells the horrific tale of Libby Day, the sole survivor of her murdered family. Libby was only a child when her mother and two sisters were slaughtered, and she was the key witness who testified that her troubled brother Ben was the murderer. Why did Libby, and the rest of her small town, believe Ben could be guilty of such a brutal crime? Well, he dyed his hair black. He liked heavy metal music. He doodled upside-down crosses in his diary. Satanic panic […]

Font of all evil

Hellsans by Ever Dundas

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I have just finished Hellsans by Ever Dundas. It took me a little longer than I intended, largely because I struggled at times to maintain my attention. That difficulty, I think, comes down to how long it takes for the universe to make sense. There is very little exposition or direct explanation of what is happening in this near-future society, and much of the novel relies on the reader slowly assembling the rules of the world from context. By the end, it becomes clear that […]

Garfield, Revisited

Garfield: Stepping Out by Jim Davis

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Come along, gentle reader, on a journey to another time. A time when the internet was a mere twinkle in a nerd’s eye. When Everybody Wants to Rule the World was a smash hit single. When Amadeus won Best Picture at the Oscars. This was also the year one of the many Garfield pocket books was published, this one being Garfield Steps Out. Why is it called Steps Out? Well, there is absolutely no reason, as far as I can tell. But the escapades of […]



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