Cranium

He/him ⭐ Murder mistery enthusiast enjoys the occasional romcom ⭐ Begins books and sometimes finishes them too ⭐ @cranium-thinks on Tumblr

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Cranium commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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Uninspired with my tbr

After nearly 2 years of moving me and my partner have managed to open our last box of books that was sitting around, brooding at us from a corner in our bedroom. The problem is: I have bought/was gifted so many of these books years and years ago and I've realised that books I might have once had on my priority tbr I have completely stopped thinking about or are from authors I don't really care for now. What would you do in my place? Would you try to get through them or should they go in the donation bag?

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readwithflo

vampire novel recommendations 🧛‍♀️

I’m currently really interested in vampire novels after reading “Carmilla” by Sheridan Le Fanu and would love some recommendations :) I also wanted to read “Dracula” because i love the adaptation with Keanu Reeves so much, but since I already have a lot of classics on my TBR, I would especially appreciate some more modern vampire novels ( I already read “My roommate is a vampire” by Jenna Levine so that one is out).

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NachoCheese

WHO IS THAT👀✨

I’m just curious, as there are so many cute icon/avatars to choose from… why did you pick your current one? Do you change it based off your read? Change it with the season? What drew you to be your little icon?!👀✨💭

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Cranium TBR'd a book

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The Borrow a Boyfriend Club

Page Powars

A feel-good, coming-of-age rom-com from debut author Page Powars that follows a trans teen who joins a boyfriend borrowing service masquerading as an Italian Club to prove that he’s one of the guys, especially to its frustratingly handsome leader. Noah Byrd is the perfect boy. At least, that’s what he needs to convince his new classmates of to prove his gender. His plan? Join the school’s illustrious (and secret) Borrow a Boyfriend Club, whose members rent themselves out for dates. Once he’s accepted among the bros, the “slip-ups” end. But Noah’s interview is a flop. Desperate, he strikes a deal with the club’s prickly but attractive president, Asher. Noah will help them win an annual talent show—and in return, he’ll get a second shot to demonstrate his boyfriend skills in a series of tests that include romancing Asher himself. If Noah can’t bring home the win, his best chance to prove that he’s man enough is gone. Yet even if he succeeds, he still loses . . . because the most important rule of the Borrow a Boyfriend Club is simple: no real boyfriends (or girlfriends) allowed. And as long as the club remains standing as high as Asher’s man bun, Noah and Asher can never explore their growing feelings for one another.

Cranium TBR'd a book

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This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

Adam Kay

Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more than you.Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking, this diary is everything you wanted to know – and more than a few things you didn't – about life on and off the hospital ward.As seen on ITV's Zoe Ball Book Club This edition includes extra diary entries and a new afterword by the author.

Cranium TBR'd a book

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Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)

Suzanne Collins

My name is Katniss Everdeen. Why am I not dead? I should be dead. Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. Gale has escaped. Katniss's family is safe. Peeta has been captured by the Capitol. District 13 really does exist. There are rebels. There are new leaders. A revolution is unfolding. It is by design that Katniss was rescued from the arena in the cruel and haunting Quarter Quell, and it is by design that she has long been part of the revolution without knowing it. District 13 has come out of the shadows and is plotting to overthrow the Capitol. Everyone, it seems, has had a hand in the carefully laid plans—except Katniss. The success of the rebellion hinges on Katniss's willingness to be a pawn, to accept responsibility for countless lives, and to change the course of the future of Panem. To do this, she must put aside her feelings of anger and distrust. She must become the rebels' Mockingjay—no matter what the personal cost.

Cranium DNF'd a book

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Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)

Benjamin Stevenson

Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I'm not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate. I'm Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I'd killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it's a little more complicated than that. Have I killed someone? Yes. I have. Who was it? Let's get started. EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY HAS KILLED SOMEONE My brother My stepsister My wife My father My mother My sister-in-law My uncle My stepfather My aunt Me

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"I have seen humans at all life stages and they are all unmistakenly... human" Mind you I was fully ready for Marcellus to call us ugly

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“Welcome to Charter Village where happy endings are our specialty.”

Even beyond the lack of tact about death, do they know what that phrase means??!

(As an aside, there’s a “senior living” place nearby where I live called The Gateway, and I’m just so perplexed when I pass it. Who is coming up with this stuff??)

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"I have seen humans at all life stages and they are all unmistakenly... human" Mind you I was fully ready for Marcellus to call us ugly

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Remarkably Bright Creatures

Shelby Van Pelt

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Cranium DNF'd a book

The Hunting Party

Lucy Foley

Everyone's invited...everyone's a suspect...For fans of Ruth Ware and Tana French, a shivery, atmospheric, page-turning novel of psychological suspense in the tradition of Agatha Christie, in which a group of old college friends are snowed in at a hunting lodge . . . and murder and mayhem ensue.All of them are friends. One of them is a killer.During the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of thirtysomething friends from Oxford meet to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students ten years ago. For this vacation, they’ve chosen an idyllic and isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands—the perfect place to get away and unwind by themselves. They arrive on December 30th, just before a historic blizzard seals the lodge off from the outside world.Two days later, on New Year’s Day, one of them is dead.The trip began innocently enough: admiring the stunning if foreboding scenery, champagne in front of a crackling fire, and reminiscences about the past. But after a decade, the weight of secret resentments has grown too heavy for the group’s tenuous nostalgia to bear. Amid the boisterous revelry of New Year’s Eve, the cord holding them together snaps. Now one of them is dead . . . and another of them did it. Keep your friends close, the old adage goes. But just how close is too close?

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Lights out!

Imagine ,books didn't exist, and the power went off for 24 hours or more, and you lived in the middle of nowhere. No friends , nothing to play with outside , just a plain of nothing as far as your human eye could see . Edit: The sun doesn't do its normal thing anymore and rarely shines near you. The closest sunlight is 10000 km away. Sorry, I'm Canadian, and i dont know that in american

What would you do if you don't work , can't read , just the lights went out? Would you sit in the dark for 24 hours , sleep ? What would you do to spend the 24 hours or more in pitch black?

I personally would try to sleep because the sleep schedule is usually messed up thanks to reading or daylight savings or cats

Do people like my random questions to get people interacting with their minds and possibly other people

Sorry for making people think right away

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Cranium

Mar 14, 2026

4.5

Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 3.5Characters: 5.0Plot: 4.0

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Oh Heated Rivalry how you have changed my life! Reading this and The Long Game has been my only tether to sanity over the holiday season. Rachel Reid's writing can be clumsy, sometimes I do get a feeling that she constructed some narrative beats around the specific sex scene she wanted to have but these boys she created are so special to my gay little brain. They have their conraddictions, their (very incredibly justified) fears and the hockey of it all clogging their brain so much that love sneaks up on them. They are a pair of tragic heroes unaware that they are in a rom-com and Rachel comes down on them with the force of a benevolent deity who smacks them against one another until they accept that their place is in each other's arms. Characters of all time as the wise say. Would I have liked it less if I hadn't stumbled on the show first? Maybe but why wonder about what could have been when it was such a bloody good time. Can't wait to do a proper re-read now that I got my paws on physical copies.

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