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Another favorite story collection for book 7 of #2024Halfway I was greatly impressed by the range in this collection. There was body horror, fantasy, stories that reminded me of Black Mirror at it's finest. A wide range of spec-fic with great commentary. Bora Chung is def an author I will be keeping an eye on in the future.

this book is a collection of short stories and my favorites were the embodiment, snare, home sweet home and goodbye my love…nice quick read with some stories that made me feel uneasy like the head… #audiophile #readdinggoal #readinglife

Well, I managed one #BookSpinBingo - that's fine with me. Read both my #BookSpin and my #DoubleSpin for May. Now I just need to finish writing my reviews (it's always the same at the end of the month/the beginning of the month)😅

@TheAromaofBooks

Wow, this was uncanny, uncomfortable and spooky. I loved it. The stories differ quite a lot, which is impressive. It made me shiver. Not only because the author uses the horror elements really good, but also because she writes about feminism without pointing it out. That makes it even more stunning. This book would've slipped my mind if it wasn't for the Translation Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair.

@TheAromaofBooks #DoubleSpin

I read Chung's collection “Cursed Bunny“ over the weekend. I have read a lot of short story collections this year & this easily ranks among the best. Body horror, dark fantasy, stories of modern tech run amok. As several reviewers have commented, “no two stories are alike,“ Chung's stories are shocking & weird as the best Asian lit & cinerma can be. I'm thinking of Bong Joon-ho's “Okja“ or the traumatizing “The Wailing“ by Na Hong-jin. Despite..

Creepy Korean short stories? Bunny on the cover? Sold!

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

Started out well, fizzled off at the end. Predictable for the most part and relying on common horror tropes (common if you consume enough horror content elsewhere).

However, stories like “The Head”, “The Embodiment”, “Snare” and “Goodbye, My Love” were well-written and I did enjoy them.

Won‘t dismiss this author - I do want to read her new book “Your Utopia”.

I did not like the translation - it lacked soul and perhaps made this book meh (?)

3.5 Stars

A collection of short stories. The Head, the first story in the book was the most unsettling for me. Truthfully, I enjoyed the first 3 stories the most. After that, the rest of the book just felt average to me. Not bad, but the stories weren't that engaging either. I would give this author another try.

I can see why Cursed Bunny is up for a lot of rewards. Head and The Embodiment (the first two stories) were my favorites. I thought the first two stories were setting the tone for the rest of the book, but the other stories included sci-fi and fantasy; so it‘s not just for horror fans. There is a nod to the societal treatment of women in almost every story, so that made it very interesting to discuss with my book club.

This was extremely odd. I think I would have gotten more from it if I read the physical book rather than audiobook - bc the narration was flat and I kept zoning out despite the oddity of the material itself. A few of the stories I enjoyed quite a bit but most were just too strange, altho I think that was the point.

For the NBA translated literature list, the upper five are their shortlist and the circled are mine (I still have a third of Kairos left, which I‘m not loving, but I read the rest). Overall, I found this list really interesting. I really want to see Cursed Bunny take home the prize, as I found it just fascinating.

#Scarathlon #SpookyGhostClub @Clwojick

What a crazy read!

This book is definitely not for everyone, but the weird worked for me. There were stories in here that made me so uncomfortable that I almost stopped reading, but then the author would pull me back in, and I couldn't pry myself away.

The creativity in this collection is impressive. Bora Chung deserves all the praise she's been receiving.

#Scarathlon #photochallenge #purple 🐈‍⬛
Taken while bookshopping in Berlin, Germany

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Brilliant, bananas, and bizarre, this story collection starts with a head in a toilet talking to a woman, grabbing me instantly. And from there, it simply didn‘t let go. I absolutely loved this! It was definitely my brand of weird and I can see how it wouldn‘t work for everyone, but it seriously worked for me.

NBA shortlist, translated literature

Here‘s the thing, once you start this one, it‘s really hard to stop, & yet, as you read with horrified fascination, you might, as I did, find yourself wondering just what it is that make these stories, about fear, alienation (from your body or others), exploitation, manipulation, abuse, hypocrisy, societal expectations, so readable. I think it‘s because there‘s an undeniable thread of truth throughout the book. Compelling, disturbing, enthralling.

Taking this one along as I head downtown…

#OutAndAbout #ReadingOnTheBus

A weird and intriguing speculative short story collection full of strange toilet creatures, ghosts, and cursed lamps. I really loves it overall-- just my kind of short stories. That said, a couple of the stories didn't really fit in with the collection and one was wildly abelist/ talking about blindness in a really derogatory way. TW for suicide, rape, incest, child abuse, and others

Life is wild so I'm reading a really wide variety of books that I'm picking up and putting down right now. What about you? #WeekendReads

She was about to flush the toilet.

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

Heavy

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. Amazing collection of genre mashup short stories: magic realism and horror focused on powerlessness of women in the patriarchy, male power and moral corruption. The title story is about a lamp shaped as a rabbit; it causes the downfall of a greedy and corrupt business and family. Slow motion disaster you can‘t look away from, and genuinely scary. Time for a bite of chocolate Easter bunny!

Excited for this month's #Bookspin and even more so for the #Doublespin picks!

#Bookspin was one of the LTER ( #LibraryThing Early Reviewers) eARCs still to be read & reviewed - those I need to prioritize on my TBR anyway.
That makes them perfect for participating in #ARCApril , too!

And the #Doublespin was one of my fave choices on the whole list! I was just looking for an excuse to put it on top of my TBR... 😁

@Andrew65 @TheAromaofBooks

These stories are disturbing, with characters who are full of greed, rage, despair. They are often nameless: “the daughter”, “the youth”. A family creates cursed objects; a trapped fox bleeds gold; a woman is pregnant after taking birth control pills. One reads like an urban ghost story, another a fairy tale, this one a science fiction one, that one a fable. It‘s impressive. It‘s grotesque. It‘s dark. It‘s mesmerizing. I couldn‘t stop reading it.

A collection of short stories that were a mixture of horror, magic realism, and sci-fi. They were all very different from one another, and the stories took place in different parts of the world. I think the length was just right- if it was any longer I may have bailed. Some stories felt like satire, but my favorites by far were The Head, The embodiment, Scar, and The Reunion.

Hard to get any reading done around here.

Book number 18 of 2023. Let the creepy short stories begin 😮‍💨

New book haul. I was hoping to get the blue edition of The Convenience Store for my shelves but the purple is quite pretty, too, especially next to Cursed Bunny.

Super strong short story collection. Bizarre, surreal, horror-dark fantasy-feminist satire. Every story is ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️…hard to do!

A collection of unsettling short stories. As is often the case, a mixed bag. They were all definitely unique though.

Not a bad short story collection! The titular story was my favorite, and the rest were pretty solid surreal horror-adjacent stories.
There‘s something about translated stories that always make me smile- like there‘s a particular way that people talk that, when translated, stick out. I mean that in the best way- I love seeing that kind of thing.

Casey returns to tell you how much I‘m loving CURSED BUNNY! If you‘re in a place where you need a nice book, steer far clear of it. If you yearn for stories packed with dark fairy tale energy and a deep consideration of how individuals‘ experiences clash with society‘s expectations, this is your jam.

Now my masters essay is done and I can breathe again, I‘m finally finishing this really excellent and very weird book of horror short stories. I bought it before Christmas so I‘d have something non-masters-essay to read while I hid at my parents over the holiday doing my term paper, then had very little time to read it!

Probably not for everyone - you have to be alright with q a lot of body horror, but it is SO original and well done

Not a beach read! But still a great one, and a fitting end to a messed up year in the world. One of my faves was The Frozen Finger. Here's to 2023!

I would definitely recommend this collection to anyone who loves magical realism (especially when it strays to the dark side). But beware: there are some major trigger warnings – especially if you‘re squeamish around blood or gore.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Full review at: https://erinkonrad.com/2022/12/06/cursed-bunny-book-review/

Absolutely bizarre, but also great, but also disturbing.

I haven‘t been feeling well for the last few days (the flu I think) and this book was obviously not the best companion. A mix of horror and violence and SF and monsters and rats and abortions… I had a hard time finishing these short stories, especially the ones in the second half of the book. Definitely not among my favorite short story books.

#InternationalBookerPrize2022

#WeeklyForecast 17/22

I am still making my way through the #InternationalBookerPrize2022 longlist. Paradais and The Books of Jacob are in progress, next will be Cursed Bunny, which is shortlisted. I also need to get to our #NYRBBookClub selection, which I get a feeling is all but an easy read.

I have been wanting to read this since I ordered it after reading the intriguing & thoughtful review by @batsy Really looking forward to it! 🐇

I think that short stories collections can‘t compete with novels, this collection is an exception. Each individual story is a commentary either on social happenings, or the depravity of people, greed, selfishness, abuse ... and all this is told through magical realism on the border with fantastic elements, often grotesque, bizarre and surrealistic situations. The simplest description is that the stories are strange and always with a very … 👇

These stories are wild. I liked some of them and others felt like a bridge too far for me. The title story was one of my favorites. For me it was a mixed bag, but it was worth the read for the ones I enjoyed.

This story collection is described as "genre-defying", & I get it, but it also feels like a collection that contains multitudes, & thus all of the genres. Fables, fairy tales, ghost stories, sci-fi, fantasy, horror: everything is represented, & everything feels like it grows organically out of our own weird, horrific, beautiful, & terrifying world. It shifted my sense of reality, kind of like reading Jeff VanderMeer. Disorienting & disturbing.

Three books from International Booker Prize longlist, and the same audiobook as in previous #weeklyforecast for Reading Africa challenge. Yesterday I started The Book of Mother and the story is so raw and intense, and surprisingly - it is debut novel.

One of my fav reads of this year and now one of my fav short story collections of all time! This genre-defying collection will take you for a ride. It has horror, sci-fi, fantasy, magical realism and speculative fiction. Truly disturbing but absolutely refreshing with lots of social and cultural commentary about South Korea. Bora Chung is one to watch!

Full review: https://www.instagram.com/p/CTxiMyThIkm/?utm_medium=copy_link

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