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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.⬇️

@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!🩷🩷

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

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

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)

What is everyone Reading tonight?!?

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...

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.

"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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

#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

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

a book fairy gifted me this! I hope it‘s good!!

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.

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!😊

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!

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”. 🐰

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

This is a horror book but somehow chill....

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 ⭐️

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.

Just started this but already captivated by the writing! ❤️

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.

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.

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!

😎

I've heard a lot about this one. 🐇

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

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!

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

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.

Have you ever finished a book and thought WTF did I just read?! Yeah. That's how I'm feeling. Huh...

‘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.‘

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.

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? 🖤

I want to be a bunny!! 🐇🐇

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

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

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

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

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 🤷🏻‍♀️

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 😊

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.