Monthly book discussion with Sara Azarmi. The BookTok Book Club, led by U.S. native speaker Sara Azarmi, discusses popular TikTok books during monthly meetings. Afterwards, a funny video is created about the books and shared with the book community on TikTok. The book club will meet in the d.a.i. library at 6:30 p.m. every last Thursday (with tea and cookies!) and talk about current authors such as Sarah J. Maas, Emily Henry, Gabrielle Zevin, Donna Tartt, or Colleen Hoover. All selected books will be available in the d.a.i. (online) library. Interested parties can find the d.a.i. TikTok channel at www.dai-tuebingen.de/tiktok. BookTok, a subgroup on the social media platform TikTok, focuses on analyzing and discussing popular literature. The focus is particularly on young adult novels, fantasy, and romances.
21.3.: Bunny (2019), Mona Awad
In English Location: d.a.i. library
Admission: free
Mona Awad's Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.
We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn't we?
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.
