Bunn-O

By: Kate Tighe-Pigott

Narrated by: Emily Bauer

Length: 50 mins

Publisher's summary

With her husband stranded in a war-torn country halfway around the world, a university professor – on whom the burden of managing their small family has suddenly fallen – tries to maintain order at home. Her young daughter seems not to mind, or even really notice, the father’s absence. But as the weeks go on, mounting pressure on the narrator to balance family and work begins to take a toll. 

So, when an enterprising and overeager graduate student, known only as “Schpleeven”, begs to “hack” her situation, the narrator gives in and Schpleevan connects her husband’s video calls to a plastic bunny toy. 

Darkly funny and eerily prescient, Bunn-O examines technology’s unbelievable ability to connect us, as well as its extraordinary power to tear us apart.

©2020 Kate Tighe-Pigott (P)2020 Audible Originals, LLC.

Technology Overload

Emily Bauer does a phenomenal job bringing this short gripping intense thriller to life. The ending lacks closure to an otherwise perfect story of to much technology and not enough human interaction. I am voluntarily leaving this honest unbiased review.

short story

this was a short story. very short. the beginning flowed nicely but the middle and end were choppy and not completely fleshed out so the story had an incomplete feel.

A Cautionary Tale By The Good Idea Fairies

A short storiy that predicts the misuse of evolving technologies with plausible accuracy. The end.

Short but good

Yes it's very short and open ended, but I loved it. Not everything has to be Stephen King length

Strange but true

Hmm
Just listened to this. It shocked me. Not for the usual
Reasons( sex, violence, and profanity) but for the content. It’s food for thought.

Disappointed

The story has an interesting and promising premise, but the character development and their interactions are not synced. It feels like 3/4 of the middle of the story is missing. Sort of like the author just wanted to get to the end fast.

How to spoil a good story with a lame ending.

SPOILERS (sort of)



I like open endings, but when they make sense to the story. This one just strikes me as lazy. Like the author had no idea as of how to end the story and decided to leave it to us. Disappointing because I was really enjoying the story.

Love in the Time of Telepresence

Bunn-O by Kate Tighe-Pigott is a short, engaging story of a family, a world apart but trying to remain connected through technology. On one side, the husband, a major tech geek enlists the help of grad student to build a telepresence device out of a plastic toy bunny.

The wife (and narrator) of the story is initially on board, but as the weeks and months drag on becomes ever isolated and disillusioned by the whole set up. Pulled in ever more confusing directions, until the final scenes.

Superbly narrated by Emily Bauer, I found her easy to listen to and thoroughly pleasing as the voice of the narrator.

Yes, this is a short review but so was the story at just 50 minutes. Don't let the short timespan put you off though, there's a hell of a lot of story packed in.

Entertaining short story

I like this story coming from the viewpoint of someone who likes technology but not to be fully integrated. I think it is a good viewpoint for those to realise technology can become too heavily invested in our lives.

Bad Ending

Felt like author was tried of writing and decided to just end the book