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An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (The Carls, #1)

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Andy Weir

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Bunny

Mona Awad

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Bunny

Mona Awad

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 seem to move and speak as 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, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision. The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.

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groupprojects

Mar 14, 2026

3.5

Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 3.0

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I was really excited to read this based on the description and a recommendation from a friend. I liked it, but I didn’t find myself clamoring to pick it up. The prose was lovely, really evocative and lyrical, but I sometimes got a little lost in it. Some descriptions got too descriptive. And I found myself just trying to get through the sections that were bits of folklore unrelated to the plot.

I thought the four generations of women were really fascinating and I wished we had gotten more from everyone who wasn’t Shiva. At the same time, it made sense for the book’s exploration of family and how muddy it can get looking back through generations that you wish you had more information about.

I especially loved Hannah’s journey — her sections were the ones I always wanted to keep reading.

Lots of good stuff here for a debut novel, even if it feels a little long. I’d be curious to see what sort of story Fruchter might tell next. Read if you are or wanna know more about being queer and Jewish!

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City of Laughter

Temim Fruchter

A rich and riveting debut spanning four generations of Eastern European Jewish women bound by blood, half-hidden secrets, and the fantastical visitation of a shapeshifting stranger over the course of 100 years. An ambitious, delirious novel that tangles with queerness, spirituality, and generational silence, City of Laughter announces Temim Fruchter as a fresh and assured new literary voice. The tale of a young queer woman stuck in a thicket of generational secrets, the novel follows her back to her family’s origins, where ancestral clues begin to reveal a lineage both haunted and shaped by desire. Ropshitz, Poland, was once known as the City of Laughter. As this story opens, an 18th century badchan, a holy jester whose job is to make wedding guests laugh, receives a visitation from a mysterious stranger—bringing the laughter the people of Ropshitz desperately need, and triggering a sequence of events that will reverberate across the coming century. In the present day, Shiva Margolin, recovering from the heartbreak of her first big queer love and grieving the death of her beloved father, struggles to connect with her guarded mother, who spends most of her time at the local funeral home. A student of Jewish folklore, Shiva seizes an opportunity to visit Poland, hoping her family’s mysteries will make more sense if she walks in the footsteps of her great-grandmother Mira, about whom no one speaks. What she finds will make her question not only her past and her future, but also her present. Electric and sharply intimate, City of Laughter zigzags between our universe and a tapestry of real and invented Jewish folklore, asking how far we can travel from the stories that have raised us without leaving them behind.

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makiki

Reading in the SHOWER?

Hello friends 💗 I have been thinking about this for a while... LOL. We've all heard about reading in the bath, but now i come to you with this concept: reading in the shower. With the rise of cellphones and ereaders, I think it is actually possible to do this. Now my question is... has anyone read in the shower? How did you do it? If you haven't, how would you go about reading in the shower? Would you even WANT to read in the shower?!

My kobo is ALLEGEDLY waterproof (I don't want to test that 🥹) and my phone says it's waterproof (is it bad i care less about my phone than my kobo?) So technically i guess I could bring them into the shower??? But then how to page turn? A remote isn't waterproof... so how would one go about this...

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An author you just can't, and why?

I know a lot of people will say JKR, Colleen Hoover or other very big problematic authors for obvious reasons, but if there're any more niche ones or weird reasons why you can't or refuse to read them, tell me.

Mine would be Mia Ballard bc whether the allegations that she is assisted with A.I are true or false, I saw the counter of how many times the word 'sharp' was in Shy Girl and....I cannot handle that.

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TiniestBeetle

Books about music! 🎶

Just spent my evening reliving my youth by playing Guitar Hero, specifically Warriors of Rock. (Gosh it runs terribly but that game will forever have a place in my heart)

Reading is my autistic special interest, and music - although I don't know much about the technicalities of it - is generally a big stim of mine; listening or singing along to my same favourite songs over and over.

Have you folks got any favourite books that have music as the key component to their plot, or just their vibe? Or simply just any good suggestions of the sort? 🎵

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aliyahmk

favourite book from your birth year?

if you feel comfortable sharing - what’s your favourite book from the year you were born?

thinking about this made me realise that mine is a bit of a blind spot for me, but i’m really anticipating sarah waters’ fingersmith!

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