kenznais

"Strange, isn't it? To love a book. When the words on the pages become so precious that they feel like part of your own history because they are."

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Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)

Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson

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The Pairing

Casey McQuiston

Theo and Kit have been a lot of things: childhood best friends, crushes, in love, and now estranged exes. After a brutal breakup on the transatlantic flight to their dream European food and wine tour, they exited each other's lives once and for all. Time apart has done them good. Theo has found confidence as a hustling bartender by night and aspiring sommelier by day, with a long roster of casual lovers. Kit, who never returned to America, graduated as the reigning sex god of his pastry school class and now bakes at one of the finest restaurants in Paris. Sure, nothing really compares to what they had, and life stretches out long and lonely ahead of them, but—yeah. It's in the past. All that remains is the unused voucher for the European tour that never happened, good for 48 months after its original date and about to expire. Four years later, it seems like a great idea to finally take the trip. Solo. Separately. It's not until they board the tour bus that they discover they've both accidentally had the exact same idea, and now they're trapped with each other for three weeks of stunning views, luscious flavors, and the most romantic cities of France, Spain, and Italy. It's fine. There's nothing left between them. So much nothing that, when Theo suggests a friendly wager to see who can sleep with their hot Italian tour guide first, Kit is totally game. And why stop there? Why not a full-on European hookup competition? But sometimes a taste of everything only makes you crave what you can't have.

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The Pairing

Casey McQuiston

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kenznais

Feb 15, 2026

3.5

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

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Of Monsters and Mainframes

Barbara Truelove

Spaceships aren’t programmed to seek revenge—but for Dracula, Demeter will make an exception. Demeter just wants to do her shuttling humans between Earth and Alpha Centauri. Unfortunately, her passengers keep dying—and not from equipment failures, as her AI medical system, Steward, would have her believe. These are paranormal murders, and they began when one nasty, ancient vampire decided to board Demeter and kill all her humans. To keep from getting decommissioned, Demeter must join forces with her own team of A werewolf. An engineer built from the dead. A pharaoh with otherworldly powers. A vampire with a grudge. A fleet of cheerful spider drones. Together, this motley crew will face down the ultimate evil—Dracula. The queer love child of pulp horror and classic sci-fi, Of Monsters and Mainframes is a dazzling, heartfelt odyssey that probes what it means to be one of society’s monsters—and explores the many types of friendship that make us human.

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welcome to the *pocket dimension

by erintripsey

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*cock pocket dimension

what? did you think this list was going to be about space travel and portals and time travel?

this list features a special kind of monster genitalia: the cock pocket! you may be asking yourself what a cock pocket is. well, look no further: a cock pocket holds and hides genitalia.

as always, taking any and all suggestions!

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Wandering Star: Fallen (Davel Outcasts and Survivors)

Stranded with the Kraken (Clearwater Monsters #1)

Claimed by the Flame of Faery (Monsters of Faery, #3)

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She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

Shelley Parker-Chan

In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness… In 1345, China lies under harsh Mongol rule. For the starving peasants of the Central Plains, greatness is something found only in stories. When the Zhu family’s eighth-born son, Zhu Chongba, is given a fate of greatness, everyone is mystified as to how it will come to pass. The fate of nothingness received by the family’s clever and capable second daughter, on the other hand, is only as expected. When a bandit attack orphans the two children, though, it is Zhu Chongba who succumbs to despair and dies. Desperate to escape her own fated death, the girl uses her brother's identity to enter a monastery as a young male novice. There, propelled by her burning desire to survive, Zhu learns she is capable of doing whatever it takes, no matter how callous, to stay hidden from her fate. After her sanctuary is destroyed for supporting the rebellion against Mongol rule, Zhu uses the chance to claim another future altogether: her brother's abandoned greatness. Mulan meets The Song of Achilles; an accomplished, poetic debut of war and destiny, sweeping across an epic alternate China.

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millennials + and early gen z - favorite middle grade + ya books?

what books were you OBSESSED with as a kid? I'm trying to build a book tour list of all the books I read and loved as a kid, but the more I look, the more I realize that I read sooo many that I'm struggling to remember ALL the books I really loved.

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Your Most Niche Non-Fiction

I adore it when someone writes a book about something incredibly specific just because they're passionate about it.

Thought I'd ask and see what's the (in your opinion) book you own/have read with the most niche subject matter? I say non-fiction but I suppose fiction works too, I just would be less sure how to define it

I have a degree in a pretty obscure subject (not specifying to avoid doxxing myself lol) but I don't think anything I read for that comes close to 'The Construction of Race in Les Misérables Fanworks' by Dr Nemo Martin XD . Hopefully I'll be able to think of some others I know of...

I feel every book, no matter how obscure, has it's audience Does anyone have any niche non-fiction they like?

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favorite things!!!

hello friends! i’ve really loved whenever we do little getting to know each other games on pb club, so i wanted to start another little one! if you want to, i’d love to hear about some of your favorite things, and what makes them so special!! everyone here is just so passionate and excited about the things they love and it always makes my heart so happy to see :) you can answer multiple for one, you can just do one of the following or do them all, whatever you’d like!

favorite book (for me: station eleven)
favorite movie (for me: the martian among many others)
favorite character (for me: ellie williams my beloved)
favorite tv show (for me: station eleven or the haunting of hill house)
favorite video game (for me: the last of us i and ii, i also love bg3 and stardew)
favorite non-reading hobby (for me: video games)
favorite random interest (this is really just an excuse to yap about something nobody ever directly asks about but maybe you know a lot about - for me: alien abduction stories 😭 and also the now-gone great movie ride at disney’s hollywood studios not in a disney adult way but in a media studies way)
favorite color (for me: yellow)
favorite animal (for me: cats and manatees)
favorite meal (for me: all things pasta)
favorite musical artist / album/ song (for me: samia anything by her) and if you have any other favorites of any other category you want to share, please do!!!!