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“‘Willfully withholding. Unnecessarily inaccessible. Not delivering on its premise.'”

Bunny by Mona Awad

July 3, 2021 by Mobius_Walker 2 Comments

You know those moments when you’re battling a fever, you’re in and out of fitful sleep, and you’re not entirely sure what is real and what is imagined? Those fever tinged experiences that you just want to be over but time stretches way beyond what it should be allowed to stretch? That was what reading Bunny was like. Samantha is a Narrative Arts graduate student at Warren, a prestigious university known for its experimental approach to both pedagogy and writing style it tries to pull out […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: Bunny, cbr13bingo, cults, graduate school, MFA program, mona awad, rituals

Mobius_Walker's CBR13 Review No:34 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: Bunny, cbr13bingo, cults, graduate school, MFA program, mona awad, rituals ·
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things that go “scoff” in the night

Bunny by Mona Awad

October 18, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

This book was praised to high-heavens, thus giving me high hopes. It is all over “best of” lists, there are tons of snarky little quips in write-ups, and the paperback features pull-quotes from Margaret Atwood and Karen Russell. I was ready to be ruined by this book… but. …it fell flat, as so many pumped-up things often do. Samantha, an unreliable narrator if ever there was one, is a post-grad MFA fellow at Warren College, a told-but-not-shown sPoOoOoKy college somewhere in New England. There’s some […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: animal harm, body horror, cult, magic, mental illness, MFA program, mona awad, unreliable narrator, writers writing

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:109 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: animal harm, body horror, cult, magic, mental illness, MFA program, mona awad, unreliable narrator, writers writing ·
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