October Reading Wrap Up: Classics, New Favourites, & Huge Misses

mona awad's really off-the-wall creativity and her commentary and themes her prose big fan but something about our protagonist and this story in particular just didn't quite connect for me and sadly i gave it 3 out of 5 stars

i read bunny back in 2020 and i adored it is a favorite it is so weird and fantastic and creepy and great and i just loved it

i would not recommend that you waste your time reading this not only was there nothing of value in this novel or anything thought-provoking but also it just contained such an unnecessarily harmful depiction of middle eastern men

this was an all-around fascinating novel it resulted in one of our best discussions in the book club so i'm very grateful for that i found it really fascinating and i will definitely be rereading it and analyzing it from different angles

i did enjoy the process of reading the beginning of it but yeah the ending just really didn't work for me it really felt like it kind of made the whole thing feel like a waste of time like none of it mattered and that was frustrating for me

i listened to this via audiobook and i adored it this book is remarkable

i finished this book feeling very unsatisfied and generally just feeling like my philosophy of life and death and my sort of expectations of the minimum of respect and empathy that should be shown to the dead and their families and friends just does not align with caitlyn dowdy's

this novel really has everything it is horrifying but also tender and witty and grave there is a moral message here but it's also just lots of fun i loved it's a classic for a reason it is truly a masterpiece

there really was a deep emotional core in this novel that i did not expect when i started it

i loved the house on the cerulean sea so much

i thought for sure this was gonna be five stars but the way that this changed in the last third of the book and especially after the reveal what the reveal implied it was just disgusting

this was exquisite it was so heartwarming and touching and beautiful and lovely

this book is compulsively readable i could not put it down and the atmosphere is top notch it is so deeply eerie with an undertone of sadness just permeating everything

i was so moved emotionally by this novel i cried a lot reading this novel especially towards the end we are okay as such a touching and heartbreaking book about loss and love and belonging and new beginnings and healing of scars just so beautiful

the protagonist's constant fixation and worry about bed bugs i understand that's part of her characterization i understand it's a phobia i couldn't take it i just couldn't read it