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Bunny
Bunny: A Novel | Mona Awad
The Vegetarian meets Heathers in this darkly funny, seductively strange novel about a lonely graduate student drawn into a clique of rich girls who seem to move and speak as one "We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn't we?" Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and are often found entangled in a group hug so tight they become one. But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon," and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, a caustic art school dropout, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the sinister yet saccharine world of the Bunny cult and starts to take part in their ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they magically conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur, and her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies are brought into deadly collision. A spellbinding, down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, creativity and agency, and friendship and desire, Bunny is the dazzlingly original second book from an author whose work has been described as "honest, searing and necessary" (Elle).
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Nessavamusic
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So I had previously DNF‘d this, but I was in the mood for something strange and decided to give it another chance. This time I listened to the audiobook, and that made this extremely bizarre story unfold for me. I honestly don‘t completely know what was going all the time. However, this is a savage exploration of snobby academia. There is so many little details that could be discovered on reread as well.⬇️

Nessavamusic Horrifying and fascinating and definitely not for everyone. 4.25⭐️ 1w
CogsOfEncouragement This was one I might not have picked up on my own but did a buddy read with my daughter and ended up enjoying it. 1w
RaeLovesToRead I loved how insane this book was 😅🐇🐇 1w
Billypar I'm in the middle of her next one, All's Well, and it's also wonderfully strange, if not quite to the same extent as Bunny. I'm looking forward to trying the new one! 1w
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BeeMagical
Bunny: A Novel | Mona Awad
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@Yuki_Onna !!!!!! Stop!😭🩷

Thank you so so so much for the very personal birthday gift!!😭🩷

I love it so much and will forever cherish it!!🩷🐰

Thank you, Bunny!🩷🩷

RaeLovesToRead 🐇🐇🐇🐇🤯🐇🐇🐇 2w
Yuki_Onna Aahhh, it arrived! Sooooo happy you cherish it so much, Bunny!!!😍💞
Sending so much love to you over the ocean💖
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BeeMagical @Yuki_Onna I love it oh so much!!!🩷 very special to our friendship🩷 2w
BeeMagical @RaeLovesToRead I KNOW!!😍 2w
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Yuki_Onna
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I am in one of the most beautiful towns of Germany, full of UNESCO World Heritage sites, a place where I've never been before. So what will I do first? 🤔
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#culturalheritage #history #surrealism #Bunny #horror #bookhoarders
@BeeMagical @RaeLovesToRead

Yuki_Onna ...Head for the first book store possible on my way downtown (only a block away from the greatest landmark of the place, an Insta-spot par excellence, and, needless to say, UNESCO site), browse for an hour and leave with ONLY two books... 😅
Aren't I a good girl? 😇

1mo
RaeLovesToRead 🐰🧁🪆📝👸🏼🐇 4w
BeeMagical YES, BUNNY!!🐰🐰🩷🩷 4w
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RaeLovesToRead
Bunny: A Novel | Mona Awad
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This was bonkers, and I kinda loved it.

Awad is a fantastic writer. You'd have to be to make the events of this book feel in ANY way plausible.

Bunny is bitchy, hallucinogenic, original, creepy, full of 90s cliché and poetic pastiche. Loosely dark academia, but would be better placed in the surreal horror section.

The whole thing reads like a psychedelic dream that could be feminist or misogynistic depending how you read it!

4 bizarre stars

Larkken I loved this. As soon as that boy‘s head exploded I knew I was in for a wild ride! Whew did not see any of that coming. 😆🐰 1mo
RaeLovesToRead @Larkken Yes!!!! And they were all chewing on stuff ?? I think my fave bit was when they were like, "his head didn't explode, Bunny"... "it kind of did a bit though, Bunny" ?? 4w
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Soubhiville
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I finished up Bunny before I left home. What a strange creepy story! I liked it!

Did anyone else while reading this want to call everyone around them “Bunny”? I was calling Sietje and the cats that, and saying it while talking to myself. 😆

College cliques can be kind of culty, and I loved the way Awad took it in a somewhat witchy supernatural direction. I‘ll definitely read her next book!

(Pictured is Sietje with her Bunny, and others)

ChaoticMissAdventures I unfortunately already did call people (especially little ones or sad people??) Bunny. This made me feel very weird 😂 1mo
dabbe Hello there, Sweet Sietje! Look at all your toys! 🖤🐾🖤 1mo
Yuki_Onna Here! 👋 Right, Bunny?💕 @BeeMagical 1mo
BeeMagical 😂😂 Right here, Bunny!🩷 @Yuki_Onna 1mo
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ShawnYLibros
Bunny: A Novel | Mona Awad
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What is everyone Reading tonight?!?

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RaeLovesToRead
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Guess what I'm reading on my Kindle today! @Yuki_Onna @BeeMagical 🐰🐇💕

I've had a crazy couple of months, and have only now got a few days to rest and recuperate.

Currently delaying returning home, because when I get there I'm going to have to find somewhere to put all my recent book & book merch purchases... my parents are NOT impressed by my living room takeover 😬😬

Ah well, I can sip my vanilla matcha iced latte a while longer...

BeeMagical Ahhh!!! We hope you LOVE it!!! Join us, Bunny…🐰💀 1mo
Yuki_Onna Oh yay, we do, Bunny!!! And vanilla matcha iced latte to go with it?!? 🐰🧋You've got taste, my favourite food influencer! 👏 1mo
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ChaoticMissAdventures
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Mehso-so

3.5 ⭐
Points for imagination and random reference drops. I like books that mention things in a wild range like Citizen Kane and Sid Vicious. It limits the audience that will understand but for those that do it is cool.
I struggled with how wildly fever dream it is and how much animal abuse. I can see why people would hate the book, you have to be prepared for dark and weird.

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ChaoticMissAdventures
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"We call them Bunnies because that is what they call each other."

Seriously. Bunny.

This is a wild fever dream ride. I am not sure I am enjoying.

#FirstLineFriday @ShyBookOwl

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JenDR
Bunny: A Novel | Mona Awad
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When your buddy read partner at work is a generation younger than you. You get introduced to books you would never try. Sometimes it‘s a win. (My Dark Vanessa) Sometimes you are a good camper and finish the book to be polite. Thank god for the Libby App- you can listen on double speed.

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CogsOfEncouragement
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Pickpick

My daughter gave me a buddy read for Mother‘s Day. We chose this book off of her TBR. It has a Heather‘s vibe and kept me guessing.

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cangel123456789
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I'm now reading Bunny by Mona Awad and am almost done with it!! The story takes place in college where a girl named Samantha becomes sucked into this cultish group of girls called the Bunnies and along the way she slowly disregards her only friend Ava. I havent loved a book this much in a while since I relate to a lot of the feelings the main character feels. If you love weird and disorienting books this is for you.

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c4t
Bunny: A Novel | Mona Awad
Bailedbailed

Got to 16%. A bit too trippy and quite pretentious. To me the writing style is like a Picasso, kind of disjointed and surreal but artistic. Hard to follow.

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Moll
Bunny | Mona Awad
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I loooooooooooved Bunny!! It's a truly wild ride - completely and utterly bizarre, and the writing is incredible

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cangel123456789
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Bunny is a book that is horror and at the same time comedy. The author uses satire and sarcastic writing to bring a humorous light into the moments of horror in this book. It's written in the present tense by the main character(first person perspective). The author also uses a lot of repetition to familiarize the reader with jokes they can feel in sighted on too.

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behudd
Bunny: A Novel | Mona Awad
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Bailedbailed

DNF
I tried. I made it 90 pages. But I‘m quitting it 😬👎🏻
It‘s not bad or even that disturbing - yet - just weird & feels like nothing is happening.
But I‘m still going to go to book club to hear what ppl think!

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Yuki_Onna
Bunny: A Novel | Mona Awad
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#TemptingTitles #April2023 Day 7: #OneWord

My absolute personal favourite...! 😊🐇💞
And with that title absolutely fitting to wish you all a very Happy Easter!

#rabbits #photochallenges #creepy #creativewriting #DowntheRabbitHole #personalfavourites #weird
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs @BeeMagical

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Happy Easter 🐣🐇🐰 6mo
BeeMagical Just the best💕💕 Happy Easter, Bunny!!🐣 6mo
Eggs Happy Easter to you and yours 🐣💗🐇 6mo
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LocalTXLibrarian
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Pickpick

Still trying to decide what my thoughts are on this one....Definitely bizarre, but it was fun!

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shanebeth
Bunny | Mona Awad
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a book fairy gifted me this! I hope it‘s good!!

Kappadeemom It‘s freaking coo coo for sure 6mo
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RickW
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Mehso-so

Awad is a great writer but Bunny goes to a place where reality & fantasy are so intertwined that it becomes difficult to sort it all out. I thought the big reveal would be that all are in an insane asylum but alas, no. Instead we are expected to drop our concept of reality & just go with it. Specks of Tart‘s A Secret History, Pinborough‘s Behind Her Eyes & Michaelides‘The Maidens are here but just not as rewarding as these classics.

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Moll
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Had such a lovely day with a friend today, and we picked up some books! It was nice to recommend some to her as she wants to get back into reading again, and I picked up Bunny because one of my favourite YouTubers ranked it so highly!😊

AkashaVampie Katie Colson???? 7mo
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CindyMyLifeIsLit
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I don‘t think I‘ll ever look at rabbits the same way again, just like I‘ll never see tutus in the same light after The Library at Mount Char. To me, though, a book‘s ability to take a perfectly ordinary object and imbue it with a twisted and creepily bizarre new meaning is a wondrous thing and I love it! I haven‘t run across too many of them, but books that simultaneously captivate and befuddle me are right up my alley, and this does both!

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Melismatic
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I know this book isn‘t everyone‘s cup of tea but I adored it. Can‘t wait for this to be Gen Z‘s “Heathers” / “Mean Girls”. 🐰

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LeticiaToraci
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Pickpick

Hypnotic, beautiful prose that reads like poetry and I couldn't put down.

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LeticiaToraci
Bunny: A Novel | Mona Awad
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This is a horror book but somehow chill....

Leftcoastzen 😻 7mo
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itsyvetperez
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Mehso-so

weeeirrrrddd.. but I like it.

“Why do you lie so much? And about the weirdest little things?", my mother always asked me. "I don‘t know", I always said. But I did know. It was very simple. Because it was a better story.”

- 3.50 ⭐️

Littlewolf1 This is on my list this month 8mo
GondorGirl This was one of the strangest books I've ever read (which is saying something), but I'm glad I read it. I'm still not 100% sure what I read, but I would recommend it. 🤣 8mo
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deirdrebeecher
Bunny | Mona Awad

If any book could have lured me into reading a dark academia book it is would have been this one. I absolutely loved the writing. But I left third level education twenty years ago. The crushes and the cliques and the imposter syndrome are so far in my past that it makes me feel a hundred years old. So I DNF'd.

But a great writer and I'm sure it's a great book and I wish her well in all her endeavours.

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CindyMyLifeIsLit
Bunny: A Novel | Mona Awad
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Just started this but already captivated by the writing! ❤️

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KateReadsYA
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Mehso-so

It's hard to rate this one because it was truly brilliant for Mona Awad to explain mental health in such a way that this book is written, on the other hand it didn't appeal to me as much as I hoped it would! Very trippy and I love that each reader will have their own theory! Maybe that's the beauty of it.

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KateReadsYA
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Their cheeks are plump and pink and shining like they've been eating too much sugar, but actually it's Gossip Glow, the flushed look that comes from throwing another woman under the bus.

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Booksarelifeaddict
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Mehso-so

I have no idea what I just read!
This book was so weird and bizarre! I have so many theories on this book! Idk is I loved it or hated it! The writing was definitely unique and nothing I‘ve ever read before!
I have no idea what I would rate it!
Has anyone else read this book? If so I need to discuss it!

BeeMagical Bunny & I LOVE Bunny! @Yuki_Onna 🐰💕 11mo
Yuki_Onna I rated it 5* and looove it!!!
COULD BE because my name is Samantha, I write and my life tends to be TAD strange sometimes... 😅😁 I thought WTF? Does Mona Awad know me? the whole time while reading...
I love surrealism & weirdness and love when I'm kind of reading a dream (or nightmare) and have no idea where the book is leading me and how it's going to turn out... Bunny is everything I want in a book.🤩
And I met you, Bunny! 💞😊🐰 @BeeMagical
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she.hearts.horror I couldn‘t bring myself to finish it 😭 11mo
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KateReadsYA
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😎

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KateReadsYA
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I've heard a lot about this one. 🐇

LitStephanie I love how you are ready with your tools! 11mo
KateReadsYA @LitStephanie yesss I always love annotating my books :) 11mo
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The_Book_Ninja
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Mehso-so

A thumb in any direction could easily be awarded to this book. At first, I thought the was reading an extended Mumsnet post: Those weird stories about uptight middle-class mums and their situations, made up by wannabe writers trolling the site. Then it started to feel like Mean Girls meets Frankenstein with a dash of Yuzna‘s, Society. By page 250 I was skimming the relentless and dense similes and metaphors up to its disappointing ending

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Decalino
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In this biting satire, a lonely young writer enrolled in a graduate program at an elite school falls in with a group of women whose penchant for hugs and endearments ("Bunny!") hides an unexpected commitment to radical experimentation. Sharp, incisive writing and inventive turns made this a particularly memorable read. Planning to check out another book by this author soon!

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Christyco125
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Pickpick

Wow! A weird mix of horror and magical realism that resulted in a hard-to-put-down story. I enjoyed this way more than I expected.

#Booked2022 - DARK ACADEMIA NOVEL

BeeMagical Yes!!! Bunny is one of my absolute favourites!🐰 12mo
Christyco125 @BeeMagical I can totally understand why. It started out angsty and then just went so off the rails (in a good way, bunny). 12mo
BeeMagical So glad you liked it 🐇!!💕 12mo
Cinfhen Yup! This book was 🍌 👖 12mo
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MaleficentBookDragon
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Mehso-so

That was…..
Something.

Did I like it? No.
Did I need to know how it ended? Yes.

Maybe I‘m not smart enough for it, but Bunny was a bit of a stream of consciousness nightmare for me.

I‘m left feeling as passive as Samantha is throughout the book.

Kappadeemom So weird!!! 12mo
Ruthiella For me, I wondered at the end is what part of it is Samantha‘s mental illness/delusion/imagination and what is real. I really like books that cross that line, but I understand where another reader would not like that level of ambiguity. When the mud bubbles at the end, that was my clue that the whole thing is imagined. Even her one uncool friend was made up. 12mo
CBee I couldn‘t finish it. After that scene with the 🐰 I was just done 😳 12mo
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GondorGirl
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Have you ever finished a book and thought WTF did I just read?! Yeah. That's how I'm feeling. Huh...

Kappadeemom 😂😂😂😂 It‘s bonkers 1y
Cortg This is the weirdest book but I couldn't put it down, because I couldn't believe this weirdness was actually written AND published. I did like it because of it's quirkiness! 1y
GondorGirl @Cortg Same! I started it late last night and finished it early today. I couldn't stop thinking about it! 1y
CarolynM That was my reaction too, but I enjoyed the ride 1y
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Shaaaannnn
Bunny: A Novel | Mona Awad

‘And then there was his voice,‘ I say. ‘He had one of those deep, serene, all-knowing voices like a documentary narrator. Like any moment he could tell you a fact about a penguin or the war and you‘d believe him. It was soothing. But sexy too. Like a tongue was being dragged up your inner thigh every time he said hi.‘

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Shaaaannnn
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An absolute mind fuck. It left me confused but I still really enjoyed the read and the writing was truly fantastic. Read if you want to feel a sense of stunned that you didn‘t even know existed.

Just bizarre.

CarolynM Pretty much my reaction too. I‘m looking forward to reading he new one 1y
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Yuki_Onna
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1. Another post about one of my all time favourite books... 🐇🎀 It seems it shaped me...

2. Not necessarily. Longer titles can be as dark, funny, mysterious, enticing etc. as one word titles.

#two4tuesday #titles #bunny
@TheSpineView @BeeMagical 🐰 Bunny! How are you, my sweet one? 🖤

BeeMagical Love this, Bunny!❤️🐰 In this case, one word title is amazing👏🏻👏🏻 (edited) 1y
TheSpineView 👍📖📚🐇 1y
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anniebannanie
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I want to be a bunny!! 🐇🐇

Yuki_Onna You ARE if you wish! 🎀🐇 Loooved 'Bunny'! 1y
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Nessavamusic
Bunny: A Novel | Mona Awad
Bailedbailed

Nope, not for me. I had heard it was divisive so I‘m not very surprised.

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she.hearts.horror
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Still on part 1…. But what in the entire f

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Madgette
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Mehso-so

Fun at the begining then always the same partern and a disapointing ending for the steak of the story you holding on to.

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Yuki_Onna
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1. Yep. Can't explain what type of titles I go for. I guess there's no general rule, the title just has to 'speak' to me.
2. Will I ever be able to shut up about this book and how much I enjoyed it? Ever? 🐰🤩🤔🐇🖤 -Bunny!💗😚 @BeeMagical Have you played?
@Drnkpnkprincess

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView #surrealism #magicalrealism #madness #horror

TheSpineView Thanks for playing! 👍📖📚 2y
RaeLovesToRead I totally buy books based on the title! Especially non-fiction! They know how to reel me in 🤣 2y
BeeMagical 100000000% 🐇 🖤🖤🖤🖤 2y
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Booksarelifeaddict
Bunny: A Novel | Mona Awad

I‘m half through this book on part two and idk I‘m having a really hard time with this book I know it‘s a lot of peoples favorite of last year but I‘m on the verge on DNF it! Did anyone else have this problem? Should I just continue and just finish it 🤷🏻‍♀️

Prairiegirl_reading It‘s weird and continues to be that way. It‘s wasn‘t my favourite by any means but I thought it was compelling enough to continue. If you aren‘t into it now you most likely won‘t enjoy the rest, in my opinion. 2y
Booksarelifeaddict @Prairiegirl_reading thanks for the advice I‘m going to give it a few more chapters I hate not finishing something or maybe I‘ll skim it to the end lol just to see how it ends 2y
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Booksarelifeaddict
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First read of the year I‘ve heard nothing but great things about this book so let‘s see what the hype is all about 😊

Mrs_B Welcome back to Litsy! 2y
DrexEdit Hello! 👋 Thanks for the follow! Looking forward to talking about books! 📚📚👍 2y
Booksarelifeaddict Thanks Mrs_B 2y
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Booksarelifeaddict I‘m also looking forward to book chatting 2y
BeeMagical Oooo you are going to LOVE Bunny! Especially if you love twisted thrillers! 🐰 💕 It was one of my favourites last year! 2y
Booksarelifeaddict @BeeMagical that‘s what I heard and twisted is totally up my alley ☺️ I‘m still at the beginning so nothing crazy has happened yet! 2y
Nute Welcome back to Litsy!😊 2y
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Samary
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Mehso-so

I was massively excited for this book and it started off really strong for me, then it took a hard turn toward the negative. It was ok, I‘d be curious to read more work from this author, the concepts are really fascinating but I‘m not sold on execution.