kenzy's bookshelf: all en-US Sat, 12 Apr 2025 08:03:07 -0700 60 kenzy's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Before We Were Innocent 61407616 A summer in Greece for three best friends ends in the unthinkable when only two return home in this new novel from Ella Berman. . . .

Ten years ago, after a sun-soaked summer spent in Greece, best friends Bess and Joni were cleared of having any involvement in their friend Evangeline’s death. But that didn’t stop the media from ripping apart their teenage lives like vultures.

While the girls were never convicted, Joni, ever the opportunist, capitalized on her newfound infamy to become a motivational speaker. Bess, on the other hand, resolved to make her life as small and controlled as possible so she wouldn’t risk losing everything all over again. And it almost worked. . . .

Except now Joni is tangled up in a crime eerily similar to that one fateful night in Greece. And when she asks Bess to come back to LA to support her, Bess has a decision to make.

Is it finally time to face up to what happened that night, exposing herself as the young woman she once was and maybe still is? And what happens if she doesn’t like what she finds?]]> 384 Ella Berman 0593099540 kenzy 0 to-read 3.36 2023 Before We Were Innocent
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]]> 2025 on ŷ 216825549 2025 on ŷ should make an interesting and varied catalogue of books to inspire other readers in 2026.

For those of you who don't like to add titles you haven't actually 'read', you can place 2025 on ŷ on an 'exclusive' shelf. Exclusive shelves don't have to be listed under 'to read', 'currently reading' or 'read'. To create one, go to 'edit bookshelves' on your 'My Books' page, create a shelf name such as 'review-of-the year' and tick the 'exclusive' box. Your previous and future 'reviews of the year' can be collected together on this dedicated shelf.

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Cover choice and graphics by Jayson]]> Various kenzy 0 ꕤㆍ𲹰 4.71 2025 2025 on ŷ
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]]> Thirst for Salt 61340225 “A love affair so richly and attentively imagined it carries the grace and gravity of memory itself.� ―Leslie Jamison It’s hard to remember now that I was once that girl, lying in the sand in my red swimsuit and swimming late into the day. Sharkbait , he called me.

It’s in the water where she first sees him: a local man almost twenty years her senior. Adrift in the summer after finishing college, a young woman is on holiday with her mother in an isolated Australian coastal town. Finding herself pulled to Jude, the man in the water, she begins losing herself in the simple, seductive rhythms of his everyday life. As their relationship deepens, life at Sailors Beach offers her the stability she has been craving as the daughter of two drifters―a loving but impulsive mother and an itinerant father. But the arrival of Maeve, a friend from Jude’s past, threatens to rock their fragile, newfound intimacy. And when she witnesses something she doesn’t fully understand, she finds herself questioning everything―about Jude, about herself, about the life she has and the one she wants. A magnetic and unforgettable story of desire and its complexities, and a powerful reckoning with memory, loss, and longing, Madelaine Lucas’s debut novel, Thirst for Salt , reveals with stunning, sensual immediacy the way the past can hold us in its thrall, shaping who we are and what we love.]]> 272 Madelaine Lucas 1953534651 kenzy 3 ᰔㆍlit-fic, ꗃㆍ2025 3.75 stars �.ᐟ]]> 3.82 2023 Thirst for Salt
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3.75 stars �.�
]]> Annie Bot 156023123
She’s learning, too.

Doug says he loves that Annie’s artificial intelligence makes her seem more like a real woman, but the more human Annie becomes, the less perfectly she behaves. As Annie's relationship with Doug grows more intricate and difficult, she starts to wonder whether Doug truly desires what he says he does. In such an impossible paradox, what does Annie owe herself?]]> 231 Sierra Greer 0063312697 kenzy 0 to-read 3.81 2024 Annie Bot
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]]> Invisible Man 16981 Invisible Man is one of those rare novels that have changed the shape of American literature. For not only does Ralph Ellison's nightmare journey across the racial divide tell unparalleled truths about the nature of bigotry and its effects on the minds of both victims and perpetrators, it gives us an entirely new model of what a novel can be.

As he journeys from the Deep South to the streets and basements of Harlem, from a horrifying "battle royal" where black men are reduced to fighting animals, to a Communist rally where they are elevated to the status of trophies, Ralph Ellison's nameless protagonist ushers readers into a parallel universe that throws our own into harsh and even hilarious relief. Suspenseful and sardonic, narrated in a voice that takes in the symphonic range of the American language, black and white, Invisible Man is one of the most audacious and dazzling novels of our century.]]> 581 Ralph Ellison kenzy 0 to-read 3.91 1952 Invisible Man
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]]> Eileen 27240835 So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys. I think of it now as what it really was for all intents and purposes—a prison for boys. I will call it Moorehead. Delvin Moorehead was a terrible landlord I had years later, and so to use his name for such a place feels appropriate. In a week, I would run away from home and never go back.

This is the story of how I disappeared.

The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father’s caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys� prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime, she fills her nights and weekends with shoplifting, stalking a buff prison guard named Randy, and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father’s messes. When the bright, beautiful, and cheery Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counselor at Moorehead, Eileen is enchanted and proves unable to resist what appears at first to be a miraculously budding friendship. In a Hitchcockian twist, her affection for Rebecca ultimately pulls her into complicity in a crime that surpasses her wildest imaginings.

Played out against the snowy landscape of coastal New England in the days leading up to Christmas, young Eileen’s story is told from the gimlet-eyed perspective of the now much older narrator. Creepy, mesmerizing, and sublimely funny, in the tradition of Shirley Jackson and early Vladimir Nabokov, this powerful debut novel enthralls and shocks, and introduces one of the most original new voices in contemporary literature. Ottessa Moshfegh is also the author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Homesick for Another World: Stories, and McGlue.]]> 196 Ottessa Moshfegh kenzy 0 to-read 3.52 2015 Eileen
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]]> My Friends 217163697 #1New York Timesbestselling author Fredrik Backman returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a stranger’s life twenty-five years later.

Most people don’t even notice them—three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. Most people think it’s just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an artist herself, knows otherwise and she is determined to find out the story of these three enigmatic figures.

Twenty-five years earlier, in a distant town, a group of teenagers find refuge from their difficult home lives by spending their days laughing and telling stories out on a pier. There’s Joar, who never backs down from a fight; quiet and bookish Ted who is mourning his father; Ali, the daughter of a man who never stays in one place for long; and finally, there’s the artist, a boy who hoards sleeping pills and shuns attention, but who possesses an extraordinary gift that might be his ticket to a better life. These four lost souls find in each other a reason to get up each morning, a reason to dream.

Out of that summer emerges a transcendent work of art, a painting that will unexpectedly be put into eighteen-year-old Louisa’s care. As she struggles to decide what to do with this bequest, she embarks on a surprise-filled cross-country journey to learn the story of how the painting came to be. The closer she gets to the painting’s birthplace, the more she feels compelled to unleash her own artistic spirit, but happy endings don’t always take the form we expect in this fresh testament to the transformative power of friendship and art.]]> 448 Fredrik Backman 1982112824 kenzy 0 to-read 4.59 2025 My Friends
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]]> Cold Enough for Snow 58470820 Cold Enough for Snow, is an elegant and subtle exploration of the mysteries of our relationships to others. A mother and daughter travel from abroad to Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the autumn evenings, escape the typhoon rains, share meals in small cafes and restaurants, and visit galleries to see some of the city’s contemporary art. All the while, they talk: about the weather, horoscopes, clothes, and objects, about family, distance, and memory. But uncertainties abound. Who is really speaking? And what is the real reason for this elliptical, perhaps even spectral journey? At once a careful reckoning and an elegy, Cold Enough for Snow questions whether any of us speak a common language, which dimensions can contain love, and what claim we have to truly know another’s inner world.]]> 95 Jessica Au 0811231550 kenzy 0 to-read 3.80 2022 Cold Enough for Snow
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]]> Kairos 124946972 Jenny Erpenbeck’s much anticipated new novel Kairos is a complicated love story set amidst swirling, cataclysmic events as the GDR collapses and an old world evaporates


Jenny Erpenbeck (the author of Go, Went, Gone and Visitation) is an epic storyteller and arguably the most powerful voice in contemporary German literature. Erpenbeck’s new novel Kairos—an unforgettably compelling masterpiece—tells the story of the romance begun in East Berlin at the end of the 1980s when nineteen-year-old Katharina meets by chance a married writer in his fifties named Hans. Their passionate yet difficult long-running affair takes place against the background of the declining GDR, through the upheavals wrought by its dissolution in 1989 and then what comes after. In her unmistakable style and with enormous sweep, Erpenbeck describes the path of two lovers, as Katharina grows up and tries to come to terms with a not always ideal romance, even as a whole world with its own ideology disappears. As the Times Literary Supplement “The weight of history, the particular experiences of East and West, and the ways in which cultural and subjective memory shape individual identity has always been present in Erpenbeck’s work. She knows that no one is all bad, no state all rotten, and she masterfully captures the existential bewilderment of this period between states and ideologies.�


In the opinion of her superbly gifted translator Michael Hofmann, Kairos is the great post-Unification novel. And, as The New Republic has commented on his work as a “Hofmann’s translation is invaluable—it achieves what translations are supposedly unable to it is at once ‘loyal� and ‘beautiful.’”]]> 309 Jenny Erpenbeck 0811229351 kenzy 0 to-read 3.39 2021 Kairos
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]]> Orbital 123136728 207 Samantha Harvey 0802161545 kenzy 0 to-read 3.56 2023 Orbital
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]]> Passing 60440998
The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.]]> 128 Nella Larsen 0141995254 kenzy 0 to-read 4.29 1929 Passing
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name: kenzy
average rating: 4.29
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]]> Normal People 37539458
Sally Rooney's second novel is a deeply political novel, just as it's also a novel about love. It's about how difficult it is to speak to what you feel and how difficult it is to change. It's wry and seductive; perceptive and bold. It will make you cry and you will know yourself through it.]]> 269 Sally Rooney 0571334660 kenzy 4 ꗃㆍ2025, ꕮㆍbeloved <blockquote></blockquote> 3.59 2018 Normal People
author: Sally Rooney
name: kenzy
average rating: 3.59
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2025/02/11
date added: 2025/03/25
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]]> There Are Rivers in the Sky 202468422 From the Booker Prize finalist author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about three characters living along two rivers, all under the shadow of one of the greatest epic poems of all time.

In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but ruthless, built a great library that would crumble with the end of his reign. From its ruins, however, emerged a poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh, that would infuse the existence of two rivers and bind together three lives.

In 1840 London, Arthur is born beside the stinking, sewage-filled River Thames. With an abusive, alcoholic father and a mentally ill mother, Arthur’s only chance of escaping destitution is his brilliant memory. When his gift earns him a spot as an apprentice at a leading publisher, Arthur’s world opens up far beyond the slums, and one book in particular catches his interest: Nineveh and Its Remains.

In 2014 Turkey, Narin, a ten-year-old Yazidi girl, is diagnosed with a rare disorder that will soon cause her to go deaf. Before that happens, her grandmother is determined to baptize her in a sacred Iraqi temple. But with the rising presence of ISIS and the destruction of the family’s ancestral lands along the Tigris, Narin is running out of time.

In 2018 London, the newly divorced Zaleekah, a hydrologist, moves into a houseboat on the Thames to escape her husband. Orphaned and raised by her wealthy uncle, Zaleekah had made the decision to take her own life in one month, until a curious book about her homeland changes everything.

A dazzling feat of storytelling, There Are Rivers in the Sky entwines these outsiders with a single drop of water, a drop which remanifests across the centuries. Both a source of life and harbinger of death, rivers—the Tigris and the Thames—transcend history, transcend fate: “Water remembers. It is humans who forget.�]]> 464 Elif Shafak 0593801717 kenzy 0 to-read 4.39 2024 There Are Rivers in the Sky
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name: kenzy
average rating: 4.39
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]]> The Eyes Are the Best Part 195703882 Crying in H-Mart meets My Sister, the Serial Killer in this feminist psychological horror about the making of a female serial killer from a Korean-American perspective.

Ji-won’s life tumbles into disarray in the wake of her appa’s extramarital affair and subsequent departure. Her mother, distraught. Her younger sister, hurt and confused. Her college freshman grades, failing. Her dreams, horrifying� yet enticing.

In them, Ji-won walks through bloody rooms full of eyes. Succulent blue eyes. Salivatingly blue eyes. Eyes the same shape and shade as George’s, who is Umma’s obnoxious new boyfriend. George has already overstayed his welcome in her family’s claustrophobic apartment. He brags about his puffed-up consulting job, ogles Asian waitresses while dining out, and acts condescending toward Ji-won and her sister as if he deserves all of Umma’s fawning adoration. No, George doesn’t deserve anything from her family. Ji-won will make sure of that.

For no matter how many victims accumulate around her campus or how many people she must deceive and manipulate, Ji-won’s hunger and her rage deserve to be sated.

A brilliantly inventive, subversive novel about a young woman unraveling, Monika Kim’s The Eyes Are the Best Part is a story of a family falling apart and trying to find their way back to each other, marking a bold new voice in horror that will leave readers mesmerized and craving more.]]> 278 Monika Kim 1645661237 kenzy 0 to-read 3.82 2024 The Eyes Are the Best Part
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]]> Masters of Death 61884928 From Olivie Blake, the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six comes Masters of Death, a story about vampires, ghosts, and death itself!

Viola Marek is a struggling real estate agent, and a vampire. But her biggest problem currently is that the house she needs to sell is haunted. The ghost haunting the house has been murdered, and until he can solve the mystery of how he died, he refuses to move on.

Fox D’Mora is a medium, and though is also most-definitely a shameless fraud, he isn’t entirely without his uses—seeing as he’s actually the godson of Death.

When Viola seeks out Fox to help her with her ghost-infested mansion, he becomes inextricably involved in a quest that neither he nor Vi expects (or wants). But with the help of an unruly poltergeist, a demonic personal trainer, a sharp-voiced angel, a love-stricken reaper, and a few high-functioning creatures, Vi and Fox soon discover the difference between a mysterious lost love and an annoying dead body isn’t nearly as distinct as they thought.]]> 416 Olivie Blake 1250892465 kenzy 0 to-read 3.77 2018 Masters of Death
author: Olivie Blake
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average rating: 3.77
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]]> White Nights 60100481
A poignant tale of love and loneliness from Russia's foremost writer.

One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.]]> 96 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0241252105 kenzy 4 ꗃㆍ2025, ꕮㆍbeloved 3.88 1848 White Nights
author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
name: kenzy
average rating: 3.88
book published: 1848
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow]]> 58204377
Salama Kassab, 18 ans, avait la vie devant elle, quand la révolution a commencé en Syrie et quand les combats lui ont tout pris : sa famille, son avenir de pharmacienne.
Il ne lui reste plus que Layla, sa belle-sœur enceinte, et sa conviction de pouvoir aider son pays grâce à son travail bénévole à l'hôpital. Mais elle est tiraillée entre l'envie de se rendre utile, et celle de mettre Layla à l'abri. Au moment où elle se résigne finalement à fuir la Syrie, une rencontre avec un jeune militant plein d'espoir va tout remettre en cause.]]> 416 Zoulfa Katouh kenzy 5 � . . . <b>five stars</b> 4.46 2022 As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
author: Zoulfa Katouh
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.46
book published: 2022
rating: 5
read at: 2024/12/21
date added: 2025/03/23
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� . . . five stars
]]> <![CDATA[The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)]]> 35068705
When Rin aced the Keju—the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the Academies—it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn’t believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin’s guardians, who believed they’d finally be able to marry her off and further their criminal enterprise; and to Rin herself, who realized she was finally free of the servitude and despair that had made up her daily existence. That she got into Sinegard—the most elite military school in Nikan—was even more surprising.

But surprises aren’t always good.

Because being a dark-skinned peasant girl from the south is not an easy thing at Sinegard. Targeted from the outset by rival classmates for her color, poverty, and gender, Rin discovers she possesses a lethal, unearthly power—an aptitude for the nearly-mythical art of shamanism. Exploring the depths of her gift with the help of a seemingly insane teacher and psychoactive substances, Rin learns that gods long thought dead are very much alive—and that mastering control over those powers could mean more than just surviving school.

For while the Nikara Empire is at peace, the Federation of Mugen still lurks across a narrow sea. The militarily advanced Federation occupied Nikan for decades after the First Poppy War, and only barely lost the continent in the Second. And while most of the people are complacent to go about their lives, a few are aware that a Third Poppy War is just a spark away . . .

Rin’s shamanic powers may be the only way to save her people. But as she finds out more about the god that has chosen her, the vengeful Phoenix, she fears that winning the war may cost her humanity . . . and that it may already be too late.]]> 545 R.F. Kuang 0062662597 kenzy 4 �. . . <b>four stars</b> 4.16 2018 The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
author: R.F. Kuang
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2024/10/03
date added: 2025/03/23
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�. . . four stars
]]> <![CDATA[The Perks of Being a Wallflower]]> 22628 offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see
what it looks like from the dance floor.

This haunting novel about the dilemma of passivity vs. passion marks the stunning debut of a provocative new voice in contemporary fiction: The Perks of Being A WALLFLOWER

This is the story of what it's like to grow up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Charlie's letters are singular and unique, hilarious and devastating. We may not know where he lives. We may not know to whom he is writing. All we know is the world he shares. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it puts him on a strange course through uncharted territory. The world of first dates and mixed tapes, family dramas and new friends. The world of sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that the perfect song on that perfect drive to feel infinite.

Through Charlie, Stephen Chbosky has created a deeply affecting coming-of-age story, a powerful novel that will spirit you back to those wild and poignant roller coaster days known as growing up.

(back cover)]]> 213 Stephen Chbosky kenzy 4 ꗃㆍ2024, ꕤㆍsobbing, ꕮㆍbeloved <b>� . . . 4.5 stars </b> 4.24 1999 The Perks of Being a Wallflower
author: Stephen Chbosky
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.24
book published: 1999
rating: 4
read at: 2024/11/11
date added: 2025/03/23
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� . . . 4.5 stars
]]> <![CDATA[My Year of Rest and Relaxation]]> 41087256
Our narrator has many of the advantages of life: Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance. But there is a vacuum at the heart of things, and it isn’t just the loss of her parents in college, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her alleged best friend.

Blackly funny, both merciless and compassionate � dangling its legs over the ledge of 9/11 � My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a showcase for the gifts of one of America’s major young writers.]]> 289 Ottessa Moshfegh 1784707422 kenzy 4 ꗃㆍ2025, ꕮㆍbeloved 3.64 2018 My Year of Rest and Relaxation
author: Ottessa Moshfegh
name: kenzy
average rating: 3.64
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/15
date added: 2025/03/23
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i would, in fact, like to sleep for a year too.
]]> I Who Have Never Known Men 60457992 Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before.


As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl—the fortieth prisoner—sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground.


Jacqueline Harpman was born in Etterbeek, Belgium, in 1929, and fled to Casablanca with her family during WWII. Informed by her background as a psychoanalyst and her youth in exile, I Who Have Never Known Men is a haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic novel of female friendship and intimacy, and the lengths people will go to maintain their humanity in the face of devastation. Back in print for the first time since 1997, Harpman’s modern classic is an important addition to the growing canon of feminist speculative literature.]]> 175 Jacqueline Harpman 1945492627 kenzy 4 ꗃㆍ2025, ꕮㆍbeloved 4.11 1995 I Who Have Never Known Men
author: Jacqueline Harpman
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1995
rating: 4
read at: 2025/02/13
date added: 2025/03/23
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]]> Of Mice and Men 45159584 A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression

Over seventy-five years since its first publication, Steinbeck’s tale of commitment, loneliness, hope, and loss remains one of America’s most widely read and taught novels. An unlikely pair, George and Lennie, two migrant workers in California during the Great Depression, grasp for their American Dream. They hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the fulfillment of their dream seems to be within their grasp. But even George cannot guard Lennie from the provocations, nor predict the consequences of Lennie's unswerving obedience to the things George taught him.

Of Mice and Men represents an experiment in form, which Steinbeck described as “a kind of playable novel, written in a novel form but so scened and set that it can be played as it stands.� A rarity in American letters, it achieved remarkable success as a novel, a Broadway play, and three acclaimed films. This edition features an introduction by Susan Shillinglaw, one of today’s leading Steinbeck scholars.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.]]> 73 John Steinbeck kenzy 4 ꕤㆍsobbing, ꕮㆍbeloved, ꗃㆍ2025 4.18 1937 Of Mice and Men
author: John Steinbeck
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.18
book published: 1937
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/23
date added: 2025/03/23
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lennie, i love u like no other.
]]> <![CDATA[마른 가지� 바람처럼 1 (Like Wind on a Dry Branch, Vol. 1)]]> 60860643 그가 건넨 손길은 구원일까?

남편� 아이� 잃은 과부 리에타. 모든 � 잃은 그녀� 자신� 첩으� 삼으려던 영주 카사리우스의 유언 때문� 함께 순장� 위기� 처한�. 생매장을 눈앞� � 그때, 그녀 앞에 운명처럼 � 남자가 나타난다. ‘미� 폐황자�, ‘정� 나간 폭군’으� 불리� 킬리�. 그는 카사리우스에� 받아� � � 대� 리에타� 데려가겠다� 하는�...! 피비린내 나는 소문� 몰고 다니� 두려움� 대�, 킬리언의 손길은 리에타� 어떤 운명으로 이끌�?

목차
1� 가혹한 계절 (1) 6
2� 가혹한 계절 (2) 34
3� 악시아스� 축성술사 (1) 54
4� 악시아스� 축성술사 (2) 76
5� 악시아스� 축성술사 (3) 96
6� 악시아스� 축성술사 (4) 116
7� 악시아스� 축성술사 (5) 140
8� 악시아스� 축성술사 (6) 158
9� 하비투스 대사원 (1) 186
10� 하비투스 대사원 (2) 202
11� 하비투스 대사원 (3) 228
12� 하비투스 대사원 (4) 248
13� 하비투스 대사원 (5) 268]]> 288 Dalsaeowl 119015367X kenzy 3 ᰔㆍmanhwa, ꗃㆍ2025 4.16 2021 마른 가지에 바람처럼 1 (Like Wind on a Dry Branch, Vol. 1)
author: Dalsaeowl
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.16
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rating: 3
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]]> All Fours 197798168
A semifamous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to New York. Twenty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an entirely different journey.

Miranda July’s second novel confirms the brilliance of her unique approach to fiction. With July’s wry voice, perfect comic timing, unabashed curiosity about human intimacy, and palpable delight in pushing boundaries, All Fours tells the story of one woman’s quest for a new kind of freedom. Part absurd entertainment, part tender reinvention of the sexual, romantic, and domestic life of a forty-five-year-old female artist, All Fours transcends expectation while excavating our beliefs about life lived as a woman. Once again, July hijacks the familiar and turns it into something new and thrillingly, profoundly alive.]]> 336 Miranda July 0593190262 kenzy 0 to-read 3.54 2024 All Fours
author: Miranda July
name: kenzy
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]]> Kitchen 50144 Kitchen, the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, is an enchantingly original and deeply affecting book about mothers, love, tragedy, and the power of the kitchen and home in the lives of a pair of free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan. Mikage, the heroine of Kitchen, is an orphan raised by her grandmother, who has passed away. Grieving, she is taken in by her friend Yoichi and his mother (who was once his father), Eriko. As the three of them form an improvised family that soon weathers its own tragic losses, Yoshimoto spins a lovely, evocative tale that recalls early Marguerite Duras. Kitchen and its companion story, "Moonlight Shadow," are elegant tales whose seeming simplicity is the ruse of a writer whose voice echoes in the mind and the soul.]]> 160 Banana Yoshimoto 0802142443 kenzy 0 to-read 3.91 1988 Kitchen
author: Banana Yoshimoto
name: kenzy
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1988
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]]> Motherthing 60097451 A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husband and herself from the vengeful ghost of her mother-in-law.

When Ralph and Abby Lamb move in with Ralph’s mother, Laura, Abby hopes it’s just what she and her mother-in-law need to finally connect. After a traumatic childhood, Abby is desperate for a mother figure, especially now that she and Ralph are trying to become parents themselves. Abby just has so much love to give—to Ralph, to Laura, and to Mrs. Bondy, her favorite resident at the long-term care home where she works. But Laura isn’t interested in bonding with her daughter-in-law. She’s venomous and cruel, especially to Abby, and life with her is hellish.

When Laura takes her own life, her ghost haunts Abby and Ralph in very different ways: Ralph is plunged into depression, and Abby is terrorized by a force intent on destroying everything she loves. To make matters worse, Mrs. Bondy’s daughter is threatening to move Mrs. Bondy from the home, leaving Abby totally alone. With everything on the line, Abby comes up with a chilling plan that will allow her to keep Mrs. Bondy, rescue Ralph from his tortured mind, and break Laura's hold on the family for good. All it requires is a little ingenuity, a lot of determination, and a unique recipe for chicken à la king…]]> 288 Ainslie Hogarth 0593467027 kenzy 0 to-read 3.65 2022 Motherthing
author: Ainslie Hogarth
name: kenzy
average rating: 3.65
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]]> Troubling Love 290186
Following her mother's untimely and mysterious death, Delia embarks on a voyage of discovery through the chaotic, suffocating streets of her native Naples in search of the truth about her family. A series of mysterious telephone calls leads her to compelling and disturbing revelations about her mother's final days.

As the New York Times wrote about this novel, "the raging, torrential voice of the author is something rare." Troubling Love is indeed a rare look into the abiding preoccupations and obsessions that bring millions of readers all over the world to her fiction.]]> 139 Elena Ferrante 1933372168 kenzy 0 to-read 3.34 1992 Troubling Love
author: Elena Ferrante
name: kenzy
average rating: 3.34
book published: 1992
rating: 0
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]]> Family Happiness 23288702
What no one suspects is that this perfect daughter, wife, and mother, always so eager to see to the happiness of others, would be willing to risk everything for love. From the moment she encounters his beautiful portraits in a group show, Polly cannot get Lincoln Bennett out of her mind. Soon she and the solitary, kindhearted painter are wrapped up in a deep and thrilling romance, and Polly has never felt more euphoric—or more terrified. Previously she divided women into two groups—those who have affairs and those who do not—and placed herself firmly in the latter category. How could she have been so wrong? And what does her passion for Lincoln say about the genuine pleasure she takes in her marriage and her family?

A sophisticated, sincere, and ultimately hopeful novel about the search for fulfillment,Family Happinessis a testament to the clarity of Laurie Colwin’s vision and the elegance of her craft.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Laurie Colwin including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.
]]> 274 Laurie Colwin 1497673771 kenzy 0 to-read 4.25 1982 Family Happiness
author: Laurie Colwin
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.25
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]]> Near to the Wild Heart 19368445 This new translation of Clarice Lispector's sensational first book tells
the story of a middle class woman's life from childhood through an
unhappy marriage and its dissolution to transcendence.

Near to the Wild Heart, published in Rio de Janeiro in 1943, introduced Brazil to what one writer called “Hurricane Clarice�: a twenty-three-year-old girl who wrote her first book in a tiny rented room and then baptized it with a title taken from Joyce: “He was alone, unheeded, near to the wild heart of life.�

The book was an unprecedented sensation � the discovery of a genius. Narrative epiphanies and interior monologue frame the life of Joana, from her middle-class childhood through her unhappy marriage and its dissolution to transcendence, when she proclaims: “I shall arise as strong and comely as a young colt.�

]]> 134 Clarice Lispector 0811220710 kenzy 0 to-read 3.70 1943 Near to the Wild Heart
author: Clarice Lispector
name: kenzy
average rating: 3.70
book published: 1943
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]]> Água Viva 13082435 88 Clarice Lispector 0811219909 kenzy 0 to-read 4.33 1973 Água Viva
author: Clarice Lispector
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.33
book published: 1973
rating: 0
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]]> The Wall 59532092
A woman takes a holiday in the Austrian mountains, spending a few days with her cousin and his wife in their hunting lodge. When the couple fails to return from a walk, the woman sets off to look for them. But her journey reaches a sinister and inexplicable dead end. She discovers only a transparent wall behind which there seems to be no life. Trapped alone behind the mysterious wall she begins the arduous work of survival.

This is at once a simple account of potatoes and beans, of hoping for a calf, of counting matches, of forgetting the taste of sugar and the use of one's name, and simultaneously a disturbing dissection of the place of human beings in the natural world.

**PERFECT FOR FANS OF THE YELLOW WALLPAPER, STATION ELEVEN AND THE MARTIAN

VINTAGE EARTH is a collection of novels to transform our relationship with the natural world. Each one is a work of creative activism, a blast of fresh air, a seed from which change can grow. The books in this series reconnect us to the planet we inhabit - and must protect. Discover great writing on the most urgent story of our times.]]> 246 Marlen Haushofer 1784878030 kenzy 0 to-read 3.94 1963 The Wall
author: Marlen Haushofer
name: kenzy
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1963
rating: 0
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]]> Playground 205478762 The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world’s first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up on naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. Two polar opposites at an elite Chicago high school bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game; Rafi Young will get lost in literature, while Todd Keane’s work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough.

They meet on the history-scarred island of Makatea in French Polynesia, whose deposits of phosphorus once helped to feed the world. Now the tiny atoll has been chosen for humanity’s next adventure: a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out onto the open sea. But first, the island’s residents must vote to greenlight the project or turn the seasteaders away.

Set in the world’s largest ocean, this awe-filled book explores that last wild place we have yet to colonize in a still-unfolding oceanic game, and interweaves beautiful writing, rich characterization, profound themes of technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared humanity in a way only Richard Powers can.]]> 381 Richard Powers 1324086033 kenzy 0 to-read 4.16 2024 Playground
author: Richard Powers
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.16
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]]> The Lying Life of Adults 48715377 “Two years before leaving home my father said to my mother that I was very ugly. The sentence was uttered under his breath, in the apartment that my parents, newly married, had bought in Rione Alto, at the top of Via San Giacomo dei Capri. Everything—the spaces of Naples, the blue light of a very cold February, those words—remained fixed. But I slipped away, and am still slipping away, within these lines that are intended to give me a story, while in fact I am nothing, nothing of my own, nothing that has really begun or really been brought to completion: only a tangled knot, and nobody, not even the one who at this moment is writing, knows if it contains the right thread for a story or is merely a snarled confusion of suffering, without redemption.�

]]> 369 Elena Ferrante 1609455924 kenzy 0 currently-reading 3.63 2019 The Lying Life of Adults
author: Elena Ferrante
name: kenzy
average rating: 3.63
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]]> Save Me (Maxton Hall, #1) 219848327
They come from different worlds, and yet they are meant for each other.

Money, glamour, luxury, power—Ruby Bell couldn’t be less interested in these things if she tried. After being awarded a scholarship to one of England’s most prestigious and expensive private schools, Maxton Hall, all she wants is to keep her head down, work hard, and get accepted to Oxford. She keeps her distance from everyone, especially the arrogant, rich, and extremely handsome James Beaufort, ringleader of the school’s party boys.

When Ruby discovers a scandalous secret about the Beauforts, she is suddenly on James’s radar. It only gets worse when James is forced to work with her to plan the school's annual gala. Yet the more time they spend together, the more they realize they share much more than they thought.

Falling for James Beaufort was never part of her plan, yet Ruby can’t help but let her feelings sweep her away. But James must make a decision for himself: will he choose what’s expected of him, or what he feels for her?]]> 368 Mona Kasten 0593954203 kenzy 0 to-read 3.96 2018 Save Me (Maxton Hall, #1)
author: Mona Kasten
name: kenzy
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> The Safekeep 199798201
A house is a precious thing...

It is 1961 and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Bomb craters have been filled, buildings reconstructed, and the war is truly over. Living alone in her late mother’s country home, Isabel knows her life is as it should be—led by routine and discipline. But all is upended when her brother Louis brings his graceless new girlfriend Eva, leaving her at Isabel’s doorstep as a guest, to stay for the season.

Eva is Isabel’s antithesis: she sleeps late, walks loudly through the house, and touches things she shouldn’t. In response, Isabel develops a fury-fueled obsession, and when things start disappearing around the house—a spoon, a knife, a bowl—Isabel’s suspicions begin to spiral. In the sweltering peak of summer, Isabel’s paranoia gives way to infatuation—leading to a discovery that unravels all Isabel has ever known. The war might not be well and truly over after all, and neither Eva—nor the house in which they live—are what they seem.

Mysterious, sophisticated, sensual, and infused with intrigue, atmosphere, and sex, The Safekeep is a brilliantly plotted and provocative debut novel you won’t soon forget.]]> 272 Yael van der Wouden 1668034344 kenzy 0 to-read 4.05 2024 The Safekeep
author: Yael van der Wouden
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2024
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]]> <![CDATA[The Bluest Eye (Vintage International)]]> 219718430 The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. Pecola prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the year the marigolds in the Breedloves' garden do not bloom. Pecola's life does change- in painful, devastating ways.
What its vivid evocation of the fear and loneliness at the heart of a child's yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment. The Bluest Eye remains one of Toni Morrisons's most powerful, unforgettable novels- and a significant work of American fiction.]]> 226 Toni Morrison kenzy 4 ꗃㆍ2025, ꕮㆍadore � � ˖ love is never any better than the lover. wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.

� � ˖ so when I think of autumn, I think of somebody with hands who does not want me to die.

this will live with me forever <3]]> 4.14 1970 The Bluest Eye (Vintage International)
author: Toni Morrison
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1970
rating: 4
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� � ˖ love is never any better than the lover. wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.

� � ˖ so when I think of autumn, I think of somebody with hands who does not want me to die.


this will live with me forever <3
]]> More Than Just Us 205176495
With decisions looming and the future rapidly closing in, Stella faces a struggle she'd rather ignore for the sake of the boy she loves. And when the very thing she's trying to protect him from is what tears them apart--not even Bridger can save Stella from herself.

Three years later, Bridger is at college on the other side of the country and Stella has learned three things: to keep her head down, her heart locked away, and never talk about that night. With anyone.

But when an injury causes Bridger to move back home, the walls she's carefully constructed around her heart threaten to crumble. Forced to confront the past and the pain she caused, she can only hope that this time . . . she'll be strong enough to withstand the weight.]]> 364 Allie Otoski kenzy 0 to-read 4.27 2024 More Than Just Us
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name: kenzy
average rating: 4.27
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]]> Silver Elite 217245572 In the first book of a searing new dystopian trilogy, a young woman must conceal her psychic powers—and her attraction to her handsome, infuriating commanding officer—as she works undercover to take down a brutal government from within.

The world is divided. On the Continent, you’re either a Prime—immune to the biotoxin that nearly wiped out the Earth’s population 150 years ago—or a Modified, one who was enhanced by the toxin, developing powerful psychic gifts.

As conflict rages between the two sides, Wren Darlington lives in hiding. Occasionally running the odd op for the rebel Uprising against the Primes� oppressive rule, she must keep a low profile. After all, if the enemy finds out that she is a Mod with a staggering four psychic abilities, she won’t just be sent to the labor camps. She’ll be executed—immediately and without trial.

When a careless mistake puts Wren in the crosshairs of the Continent’s military, she is taken captive and forced to join their most elite Silver Block. Unwittingly, they’ve handed her the perfect opportunity for the Uprising to strike a devastating blow from inside their ranks. That is, if she can keep her powers hidden, survive training, and prove herself to Cross Redden, her maddeningly cocky commanding officer.

Despite the explosive chemistry between them, Cross doesn’t trust her—even as he seems determined to destroy the remaining shreds of Wren’s self-control. Yet as the war between Primes and Mods escalates, and as Wren and Cross find themselves unable to stay away from each other, they must decide how far they’re willing to go for their secrets—and how much of the Continent is worth saving.]]> 528 Dani Francis 059387546X kenzy 0 to-read 4.40 2025 Silver Elite
author: Dani Francis
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.40
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]]> Writers & Lovers 50395093 New York Times bestselling author of Euphoria.

Following the breakout success of her critically acclaimed and award-winning novel Euphoria, Lily King returns with an unforgettable portrait of an artist as a young woman.

Blindsided by her mother’s sudden death, and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody has arrived in Massachusetts in the summer of 1997 without a plan. Her mail consists of wedding invitations and final notices from debt collectors. A former child golf prodigy, she now waits tables in Harvard Square and rents a tiny, moldy room at the side of a garage where she works on the novel she’s been writing for six years. At thirty-one, Casey is still clutching onto something nearly all her old friends have let go of: the determination to live a creative life. When she falls for two very different men at the same time, her world fractures even more. Casey’s fight to fulfill her creative ambitions and balance the conflicting demands of art and life is challenged in ways that push her to the brink.

Writers & Lovers follows Casey—a smart and achingly vulnerable protagonist—in the last days of a long youth, a time when every element of her life comes to a crisis. Written with King’s trademark humor, heart, and intelligence, Writers & Lovers is a transfixing novel that explores the terrifying and exhilarating leap between the end of one phase of life and the beginning of another.]]> 295 Lily King 0802148557 kenzy 0 to-read 4.20 2020 Writers & Lovers
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name: kenzy
average rating: 4.20
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]]> And Then There Were None 16299
"Ten little boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine. Nine little boys sat up very late; One overslept himself and then there were eight. Eight little boys traveling in Devon; One said he'd stay there then there were seven. Seven little boys chopping up sticks; One chopped himself in half and then there were six. Six little boys playing with a hive; A bumblebee stung one and then there were five. Five little boys going in for law; One got in Chancery and then there were four. Four little boys going out to sea; A red herring swallowed one and then there were three. Three little boys walking in the zoo; A big bear hugged one and then there were two. Two little boys sitting in the sun; One got frizzled up and then there was one. One little boy left all alone; He went out and hanged himself and then there were none."

When they realize that murders are occurring as described in the rhyme, terror mounts. One by one they fall prey. Before the weekend is out, there will be none. Who has choreographed this dastardly scheme? And who will be left to tell the tale? Only the dead are above suspicion.]]> 264 Agatha Christie 0312330871 kenzy 4 ꕤㆍbr, ꕮㆍloves, ꗃㆍ2025
୨୧ㆍloved buddy reading this with my pretty girl marti, love u sm ]]> 4.28 1939 And Then There Were None
author: Agatha Christie
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.28
book published: 1939
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/10
date added: 2025/03/10
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agatha christie, u queen !!

୨୧ㆍloved buddy reading this with my pretty girl marti, love u sm
]]> The Secret History 70897
Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's cult bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful.]]> 629 Donna Tartt 0140167773 kenzy 5 ꕮㆍadore, ꗃㆍ2025 <blockquote></blockquote> 4.25 1992 The Secret History
author: Donna Tartt
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1992
rating: 5
read at: 2025/03/08
date added: 2025/03/09
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]]> The Favorites 211400175 To the world, they were a scandal. To each other, an obsession.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER � An epic love story set in the sparkling, savage sphere of elite figure skating, starring a woman determined to carve her own path on and off the ice

“P Wuthering Heights and part Daisy Jones & The Six, this novel is as brilliantly choreographed as a gold medal performance and will keep you guessing until its last page.”—Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of By Any Other Name

She might not have a famous name, funding, or her family’s support, but Katarina Shaw has always known that she was destined to become an Olympic skater. When she meets Heath Rocha, a lonely kid stuck in the foster care system, their instant connection makes them a formidable duo on the ice. Clinging to skating—and each other—to escape their turbulent lives, Kat and Heath go from childhood sweethearts to champion ice dancers, captivating the world with their scorching chemistry, rebellious style, and roller-coaster relationship.

Until a shocking incident at the Olympic Games brings their partnership to a sudden end.

As the ten-year anniversary of their final skate approaches, an unauthorized documentary reignites the public obsession with Shaw and Rocha, claiming to uncover the “real story� through interviews with their closest friends and fiercest rivals. Kat wants nothing to do with the documentary, but she can’t stand the thought of someone else defining her legacy. So, after a decade of silence, she’s telling her story: from the childhood tragedies that created her all-consuming bond with Heath to the clash of desires that tore them apart. Sensational rumors have haunted their every step for years, but the truth may be even more shocking than the headlines.]]> 464 Layne Fargo 0593732057 kenzy 2 ꗃㆍ2025 i'm actually being generous 4.18 2025 The Favorites
author: Layne Fargo
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2025
rating: 2
read at: 2025/02/07
date added: 2025/03/09
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i'm actually being generous
]]> The Sirens of Titan 6588742 Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’sThe Great American Read

The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depraved man on Earth, Malachi Constant, is offered a chance to take a space journey to distant worlds with a beautiful woman at his side. Of course there� s a catch to the invitation–and a prophetic vision about the purpose of human life that only Vonnegut has the courage to tell.]]> 338 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. kenzy 0 to-read 4.15 1959 The Sirens of Titan
author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1959
rating: 0
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]]> Madame Bovary 11750519
Weaned on sentimental novels, Emma Bovary longs for a life of luxury and high romance. She is married to a kind but mediocre country doctor and is plagued by expectations of something more, some more intense experience, some wider horizon if she could only find it. She seeks to escape from boredom in extravagant shopping sprees and eventually, adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment and so begins her descent into ruin and despair.

First published in 1857, Madame Bovary is one of the richest novels ever written; a mille-feuille of nuance, subtlety and psychological acuity. Linguistically meticulous, Thorpe delicately transposes the rhythms of Madame Bovary bringing us closer to Flaubert. This stunningly translated edition of Madame Bovary is destined to become the definitive English translation for our time.]]> 384 Gustave Flaubert 0099529866 kenzy 0 to-read 3.93 1856 Madame Bovary
author: Gustave Flaubert
name: kenzy
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1856
rating: 0
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]]> Hotel du Lac 251665
But instead of peace and rest, Edith finds herself sequestered at the hotel with an assortment of love's casualties and exiles. She also attracts the attention of a worldly man determined to release her unused capacity for mischief and pleasure. Beautifully observed, witheringly funny, Hotel du Lac is Brookner at her most stylish and potently subversive.]]> 184 Anita Brookner 0679759328 kenzy 0 to-read 3.59 1984 Hotel du Lac
author: Anita Brookner
name: kenzy
average rating: 3.59
book published: 1984
rating: 0
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]]> A Breath of Life 13082431 A mystical dialogue between a male author and his creation, this posthumous work has never before been translated, and is a book of particular beauty and strangeness.

A mystical dialogue between a male author (a thinly disguised Clarice Lispector) and his/her creation, a woman named Angela, this posthumous work has never before been translated. Lispector did not even live to see it published.

At her death, a mountain of fragments remained to be “structured� by Olga Borelli. These fragments form a dialogue between a god-like author who infuses the breath of life into his creation: the speaking, breathing, dying creation herself, Angela Pralini. The work’s almost occult appeal arises from the perception that if Angela dies, Clarice will have to die as well. And she did.]]> 167 Clarice Lispector 0811219623 kenzy 0 to-read 4.34 1978 A Breath of Life
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]]> Okay Days 62831265
‘Utterly immersive ... it's reminiscent of Sally Rooney and is a complex and joyous ode to being in love, messing up and finding your way� � Stylist

Sam is 28, Swedish, carefree and chaotic. Doing a work placement in London over the course of three sticky summer months, she falls hard for Lucas, a man she first met as a teenager. Lucas, 27, sensitive and calm, is trying to get a start on adult life while struggling to hold the pieces of his life together. Sam is a gorgeous distraction. But you can only avoid reality for so long, and both Sam and Lucas know their relationship can't last. Nobody can be this happy forever, surely?

Okay Days tells the story of the rise and fall of Sam and Lucas's affection for each other, looks unflinchingly at male body dysmorphia and women's reproductive rights, and the pitfalls of modern love. When is okay good enough? And what are we willing to lose in the search for a life that is much better than just okay?

‘A beautifully-observed portrait of self-discovery and uncertain love. Jenny's sharp and evocative prose gave me a feeling of immense nostalgia for London's long summer days� � Natasha Brown, author of Assembly

‘Fresh and sharply observant ... One of the most intriguing books I've read in some time� � Elaine Feeney, author of How To Build A Boat

‘Tender and spellbinding, Okay Days breaks you all the way open� � Annie Lord, author of Notes on Heartbreak

‘An intimate drama of what matters in stories: relationships. Mustard is a talented portraitist in whose hands these two characters become real, enthralling, and viscerally realized. It is one of the most entertaining novels I have read of the times we live in� � Chigozie Obioma, author of The Fishermen]]> 340 Jenny Mustard 1399713469 kenzy 0 to-read 3.73 2023 Okay Days
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]]> <![CDATA[Call Me Maybe (Love Lines, #1)]]> 58564380 The audio bestseller, available for the first time in ebook! True love is on the line in Cara Bastone's charming, laugh-out-loud rom-com, perfect for fans of Netflix's Love is Blind, Jo Watson, Lauren Layne and Hannah Orenstein!


Paint your toes. Pick up the wrong coffee and bagel order. Drive from Brooklyn to Jersey in traffic so slow you want to tear your hair out. It's amazing all the useless things I can accomplish while on hold for three hours with customer service. Three hours when I should be getting the Date-in-a-Box website ready to launch at the big business expo in a few days. Except my shiny new website is glitching, and my inner rage-monster is ready to scorch some earth...when he finally picks up. Not the robot voice I expected but a real live human named Cal. He's surprisingly helpful and really knows his stuff, even if he's a little awkward...in an adorable way.

And suddenly I'm flirting with him? And I think he's flirting back.

And suddenly it's been hours, and we're still on the phone talking and ordering each other takeout while he troubleshoots my website.

And suddenly we're exchanging numbers and sending texts and DMs every day, leaving voice mails (who even does that anymore?!).

And suddenly I'm wondering if it's possible for two people to fall in love at first talk.

Because I'm falling...hard.]]> 219 Cara Bastone kenzy 0 to-read 4.00 2020 Call Me Maybe (Love Lines, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings]]> 34845395 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide.

Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.� At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare�) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned.

Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read.]]> 317 Maya Angelou kenzy 0 to-read 4.43 1969 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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]]> <![CDATA[The Unbearable Lightness of Being]]> 678974
Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here.]]> 314 Milan Kundera 0571200834 kenzy 0 to-read 4.02 1984 The Unbearable Lightness of Being
author: Milan Kundera
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]]> <![CDATA[She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)]]> 48727813 Two-time British Fantasy Award Winner
Astounding Award Winner
Lambda Literary Award Finalist
Hugo Award Finalist
Locus Award Finalist
Otherwise Award Finalist

"Magnificent in every way."—Samantha Shannon, author of The Priory of the Orange Tree

"A dazzling new world of fate, war, love and betrayal."—Zen Cho, author of Black Water Sister

She Who Became the Sun reimagines the rise to power of the Ming Dynasty’s founding emperor.

To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything

“I refuse to be nothing…�

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 takes the chance to claim another future her brother's abandoned greatness.

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.]]> 416 Shelley Parker-Chan 1250621798 kenzy 0 to-read 3.87 2021 She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)
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]]> Such a Fun Age 50371065 Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both.

Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket. The store's security guard, seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, accuses Emira of kidnapping two-year-old Briar. A small crowd gathers, a bystander films everything, and Emira is furious and humiliated. Alix resolves to make things right.

But Emira herself is aimless, broke, and wary of Alix's desire to help. At twenty-five, she is about to lose her health insurance and has no idea what to do with her life. When the video of Emira unearths someone from Alix's past, both women find themselves on a crash course that will upend everything they think they know about themselves, and each other.

With empathy and piercing social commentary, Such a Fun Age explores the stickiness of transactional relationships, what it means to make someone family, and the complicated reality of being a grown up. It is a searing debut for our times.]]> 320 Kiley Reid kenzy 0 to-read 3.79 2019 Such a Fun Age
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average rating: 3.79
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]]> Ms Ice Sandwich 52458329
But the boy's friend hears about this hesitant adoration, and suddenly everything changes. His visits to Ms Ice Sandwich stop, and with them the last hopes of his childhood.

A moving and surprisingly funny tale of growing up and learning how to lose, Ms Ice Sandwich is Mieko Kawakami at her very best.]]> 97 Mieko Kawakami 178227331X kenzy 3 ꗃㆍ2025 3.65 2013 Ms Ice Sandwich
author: Mieko Kawakami
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average rating: 3.65
book published: 2013
rating: 3
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]]> Malibu Rising 57272731 This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781524798666.

Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. But over the course of twenty-four hours, their lives will change forever.

Malibu: August, 1983. It’s the day of Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their adored baby sister, Kit. Together, the siblings are a source of fascination in Malibu and the world over—especially as the offspring of the legendary singer, Mick Riva.

The only person not looking forward to the party of the year is Nina herself, who never wanted to be the center of attention, and who has also just been very publicly abandoned by her pro tennis player husband. Oh, and maybe Hud—because it is long past time to confess something to the brother from whom he’s been inseparable since birth.

Jay, on the other hand, is counting the minutes until nightfall, when the girl he can’t stop thinking about promised she’ll be there.

And Kit has a couple secrets of her own—including a guest she invited without consulting anyone.

By midnight the party will be completely out of control. By morning, the Riva mansion will have gone up in flames. But before that first spark in the early hours before dawn, the alcohol will flow, the music will play, and the loves and secrets that shaped this family’s generations will all come bubbling to the surface.

Malibu Rising is a story about one unforgettable night in the life of a family: the night they each have to choose what they will keep from the people who made them . . . and what they will leave behind.]]> 384 Taylor Jenkins Reid 1524798665 kenzy 0 to-read 3.90 2021 Malibu Rising
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]]> Franny and Zooey 123226650 ‘Everything everybody does is so—I don’t know—not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and—sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you’re conforming just as much only in a different way.�

First published in The New Yorker as two sequential stories, ‘Franny� and ‘Zooey� offer a dual portrait of the two youngest members of J. D. Salinger’s fictional Glass family.

Franny Glass is a pretty, effervescent college student on a date with her intellectually confident boyfriend, Lane. They appear to be the perfect couple, but as they struggle to communicate with each other about the things they really care about, slowly their true feelings come to the surface. The second story in this book, ‘Zooey�, plunges us into the world of her ethereal, sophisticated family. When Franny’s emotional and spiritual doubts reach new heights, her older brother Zooey, a misanthropic former child genius, offers her consolation and brotherly advice.

Written in Salinger’s typically irreverent style, these two stories offer a touching snapshot of the distraught mindset of early adulthood and are full of the insightful emotional observations and witty turns of phrase that have helped make Salinger’s reputation what it is today.]]> 208 J.D. Salinger kenzy 0 on-hold 3.00 1957 Franny and Zooey
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average rating: 3.00
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]]> Neverwhere 123271966 New York Times bestselling author's ultimate edition of his wildly successful first novel featuring his "preferred text"—and including his special Neverwhere tale "How the Marquis Got His Coat Back"

Published in 1997, Neil Gaiman's darkly hypnotic first novel, Neverwhere, heralded the arrival of a major talent and became a touchstone of urban fantasy. Over the years, a number of versions were produced both in the U.S. and the U.K. Now Gaiman's preferred edition of his classic novel reconciles these works and reinstates a number of scenes cut from the original published books.

Neverwhere is the story of Richard Mayhew, a young London businessman with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he discovers a girl bleeding on the sidewalk. He stops to help her—an act of kindness that plunges him into a world he never dreamed existed.

Slipping through the cracks of reality, Richard lands in the Neverwhere—a London of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels that exists entirely in a subterranean labyrinth. The Neverwhere is home to Door, the mysterious girl Richard helped in the London Above. Door, a noblewoman whose family has been murdered, is on a quest to find the agent that slaughtered her family and thwart the destruction of this underworld kingdom. If Richard is ever to return to his former life, he must join the journey to save Door's world—and find a way to survive.

A hallucinatory fantasia of mystery, mythology, and terror that "draws equally from George Lucas, Monty Python, Doctor Who, and John Milton" (USA Today), Neverwhere is an "Alice in Wonderland with a punk edge" (Poppy Z. Brite), "that is both the stuff of dreams and nightmares" (San Diego Union-Tribune).]]> Neil Gaiman 0061793051 kenzy 0 to-read 4.24 1996 Neverwhere
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average rating: 4.24
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]]> <![CDATA[It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over]]> 205784266 It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over asks how much of yourself can you lose before you are lost…and then what happens?
The heroine of this haunting, spare novel is voraciously alive in the afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware, our undead narrator notes every bizarre detail of her new reality. She has forgotten even her name, but she remembers with unbearable longing the place where she knew herself and was known � where she loved and was loved. She heads west and into mind-boggling adventures, carrying a dead but laconically opinionated crow in her chest.
The joint winner of The Novel Prize, It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over is a sharp and funny tale for our dispossessed times.
‘Astounding, inventive, and utterly original, Anne de Marcken has written a freakish classic with wisdom to spare about life, death, and the eerily vast space between. I was absolute putty in this book’s hands.� � Alexandra Kleeman
‘Anne de Marcken must write in a charmed ink that first erases the line between the living and the dead, and then � with prose as elegant as it is spooked � tells the story of what lies underneath. I have never read anything like this brilliant debut.� � Sabrina Orah Mark]]> 115 Anne de Marcken 1923106090 kenzy 0 to-read 3.50 2024 It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over
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]]> Happy Place 61761938 A couple who broke up months ago pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends.

Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college—they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now—for reasons they’re still not discussing—they don’t.

They broke up five months ago. And still haven’t told their best friends.

Which is how they find themselves sharing a bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group’s yearly getaway for the last decade. Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blissful week they leave behind their daily lives; have copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood; and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them most.

Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth while trying not to notice how desperately they still want each other. Because the cottage is for sale and this is the last week they’ll all have together in this place. They can’t stand to break their friends� hearts, and so they’ll play their parts. Harriet will be the driven surgical resident who never starts a fight, and Wyn will be the laid-back charmer who never lets the cracks show. It’s a flawless plan (if you look at it from a great distance and through a pair of sunscreen-smeared sunglasses). After years of being in love, how hard can it be to fake it for one week� in front of those who know you best?]]> 395 Emily Henry 0593441206 kenzy 2 ꗃㆍ2025 � . . . 2.5 stars !]]> 4.06 2023 Happy Place
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� . . . 2.5 stars !
]]> Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1) 60568471
It couldn’t save their marriage.

Yasmen wasn’t prepared for how her life fell apart, but she is finally starting to find joy again. She and Josiah have found a new rhythm, co-parenting their two kids and running a thriving business together. Yet like magnets, they’re always drawn back to each other, and now they’re beginning to wonder if they’re truly ready to let go of everything they once had.

Soon, one stolen kiss leads to another…and then more. It's hot. It's illicit. It's all good—until old wounds reopen. Is it too late for them to find forever? Or could they even be better, the second time around?

Award-winning and bestselling "powerhouse" author Kennedy Ryan is at her absolute best in this compelling, scorching novel about hope and healing, and what it truly means to love for a lifetime (USA Today).]]> 391 Kennedy Ryan 1538706792 kenzy 0 to-read 4.32 2022 Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)
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average rating: 4.32
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]]> Wild ​Reverence 222361609
Ten years ago, Vincent of Beckett wrote to Matilda on the darkest night of his life―begging the goddess he befriended in dreams to help him. When his request went unanswered, Vincent moved on, becoming the hardened, irreverent lord of the river who has long forgotten Matilda. That is, until she comes tumbling into his bedroom window with a letter for him.

As Fate would have it, Matilda and Vincent were destined to find each other beyond dreams. There may be a chance for Matilda to rewrite the blood-soaked ways of the gods, but at immense sacrifice. She will have to face something she fears even more than losing her magic: to be vulnerable, and to allow herself to finally be loved.]]> Rebecca Ross 1250373360 kenzy 0 to-read 4.76 2025 Wild ​Reverence
author: Rebecca Ross
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]]> Happy All the Time 57602357 Happy All the Time follows four sane, intelligent, and good-intentioned people who manage to find love in spite of themselves.

This 2021 reissue includes a new foreword by Katherine Heiny and cover art by Olivia McGiff.

An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.]]> 224 Laurie Colwin 0593313895 kenzy 0 to-read 3.98 1978 Happy All the Time
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name: kenzy
average rating: 3.98
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]]> The Nightingale 36690684 This is an alternate cover edition of ASIN 1509848622 (ISBN13: 9781509848621)

The New York Times number one bestselling title Bravery, courage, fear and love in a time of war. Despite their differences, sisters Viann and Isabelle have always been close. Younger, bolder Isabelle lives in Paris while Viann is content with life in the French countryside with her husband Antoine and their daughter. But when the Second World War strikes, Antoine is sent off to fight and Viann finds herself isolated so Isabelle is sent by their father to help her. As the war progresses, the sisters' relationship and strength is tested. With life changing in unbelievably horrific ways, Viann and Isabelle will find themselves facing frightening situations and responding in ways they never thought possible as bravery and resistance take different forms in each of their actions. Vivid and exquisite in its illumination of a time and place that was filled with atrocities, but also humanity and strength, Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale will provoke thought and discussion that will have readers talking long after they finish reading.]]> 442 Kristin Hannah kenzy 0 to-read 4.55 2015 The Nightingale
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]]> Talking at Night 62583508
They’re opposites in every way. She overthinks everything; he is her twin brother’s wild and unpredictable friend. But over secret walks home and late-night phone calls, they become closer—destined to be one another’s great love story.

Until, one day, tragedy strikes, and their future together is shattered.

But as the years roll on, Will and Rosie can’t help but find their way back to each other. Time and again, they come close to rekindling what might have been.

What do you do when the one person you should forget is the one you just can’t let go?]]> 400 Claire Daverley 0593653483 kenzy 0 to-read 3.91 2023 Talking at Night
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name: kenzy
average rating: 3.91
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]]> <![CDATA[The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)]]> 20518872 472 Liu Cixin kenzy 0 to-read 4.08 2006 The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
author: Liu Cixin
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2006
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]]> A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 49980599 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a poignant and moving tale filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life and people and incident. The story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet formative years in the slums of Williamsburg has enchanted and inspired millions of readers for more than sixty years. By turns overwhelming, sublime, heartbreaking, and uplifting, the daily experiences of the unforgettable Nolans are raw with honesty and tenderly threaded with family connectedness -- in a work of literary art that brilliantly captures a unique time and place as well as incredibly rich moments of universal experience.]]> 528 Betty Smith kenzy 0 to-read 4.49 1943 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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average rating: 4.49
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]]> Bridge to Terabithia 40940121 The 40th anniversary edition of the classic Newbery Medal-winning title by beloved author Katherine Paterson, with brand-new bonus materials including an author's note by Katherine herself and a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Kate DiCamillo.

Jess Aarons has been practicing all summer so he can be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. And he almost is, until the new girl in school, Leslie Burke, outpaces him. The two become fast friends and spend most days in the woods behind Leslie's house, where they invent an enchanted land called Terabithia. One morning, Leslie goes to Terabithia without Jess and a tragedy occurs. It will take the love of his family and the strength that Leslie has given him for Jess to be able to deal with his grief.

Bridge to Terabithia was also named an ALA Notable Children’s Book and has become a touchstone of children’s literature, as have many of Katherine Paterson’s other novels, including The Great Gilly Hopkins and Jacob Have I Loved.]]> 190 Katherine Paterson kenzy 2 ꕤㆍsobbing, ꗃㆍ2025 � . . . 2.5 stars ! ]]> 4.18 1977 Bridge to Terabithia
author: Katherine Paterson
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.18
book published: 1977
rating: 2
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� . . . 2.5 stars !
]]> <![CDATA[Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3)]]> 211164792 Two feuding second-grade teachers (and neighbors) find themselves teaming up in this rivals-to-lovers romance.

Emily Walker hates having her carefully crafted world disrupted by anyone, most of all her legendary nemesis, Jack Bennett. He's the opposite of the wonderful heroes she dreams up in her double life as a romance writer, which is why Emily was perfectly happy when Jack left Rome, Kentucky, mid-school year, with his fiancée. The last thing Emily saw coming was Jack’s return at the start of the summer after calling off the wedding and ending his relationship, but he’s here to stay—as her colleague and her neighbor.

Jackson Bennett is glad to be back, eager to renovate his house and work on the next mystery novel under his bestselling pen name. But when he realizes he’s now neighbors with the one woman who has always pushed his buttons, he discovers something he’s even more excited for—thwarting Emily and her petty plans to sabotage his return.

With their chemistry-fueled animosity at an all-time high, Emily accidentally sends an email to their school’s principal that could reveal her secret literary side hustle. She needs to steal back her manuscript, and Jack—she hates to admit—is just the man to help her. Surprisingly, Jack agrees. Will their unlikely alliance put an end to their rivalry? Or could it lead to a steamy plot twist they never saw coming?]]> 384 Sarah Adams 0593723694 kenzy 0 to-read 4.07 2025 Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[역대� 영지 설계� 1 (The Greatest Estate Developer, Vol. 1)]]> 210059621
1-12]]> 336 BK_Moon kenzy 0 to-read 4.58 역대급 영지 설계사 1 (The Greatest Estate Developer, Vol. 1)
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]]> People of Abandoned Character 53566011
London, 1888: Susannah rushes into marriage to a young and wealthy surgeon. After a passionate honeymoon, she returns home with her new husband wrapped around her little finger. But then everything changes.

Thomas's behavior becomes increasingly volatile and violent. He stays out all night, returning home bloodied and full of secrets. The gentle caresses she enjoyed on her wedding night are now just a honeyed memory.

When the first woman is murdered in Whitechapel, Susannah's interest is piqued. But as she follows the reports of the ongoing hunt for the killer, her mind takes her down the darkest path imaginable. Every time Thomas stays out late, another victim is found dead.

Is it coincidence? Or is her husband the man they call Jack the Ripper?]]> 421 Clare Whitfield kenzy 0 to-read 3.76 2020 People of Abandoned Character
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average rating: 3.76
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]]> Good Material 96177629
Now he is. . .

Without a home

Waiting for his stand-up career to take off

Wondering why everyone else around him seems to have grown up while he wasn't looking

Set adrift on the sea of heartbreak, Andy clings to the idea of solving the puzzle of his ruined relationship. Because if he can find the answer to that, then maybe Jen can find her way back to him. But Andy still has a lot to learn, not least his ex-girlfriend's side of the story�

In this sharply funny and exquisitely relatable story of romantic disaster and friendship, Dolly Alderton offers up a love story with two endings, demonstrating once again why she is one of the most exciting writers today, and the true voice of a generation.]]> 345 Dolly Alderton 0241523672 kenzy 0 to-read 3.85 2023 Good Material
author: Dolly Alderton
name: kenzy
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/01/11
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> The Berry Pickers 123036004 A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a community, and remains unsolved for nearly fifty years.

July 1962. A Mi’kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family’s youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister’s disappearance for years to come.

In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant, her mother frustratingly overprotective. Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination. As she grows older, Norma slowly comes to realize there is something her parents aren’t telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition, she will spend decades trying to uncover this family secret.

For readers of The Vanishing Half and Woman of Light, this showstopping debut by a vibrant new voice in fiction is a riveting novel about the search for truth, the shadow of trauma, and the persistence of love across time.]]> 307 Amanda Peters 1646221958 kenzy 0 to-read 4.04 2023 The Berry Pickers
author: Amanda Peters
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/01/11
shelves: to-read
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]]> Foolish Hearts 33275690 the it-couple at her school, she finds herself in hot water with prickly, difficult Iris. Thrown together against their will in the class production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, along with the goofiest, cutest boy Claudia has ever known, Iris and Claudia are in for an eye-opening senior year.

Smart, funny, and thoroughly, wonderfully flawed, Claudia navigates a world of intense friendships and tentative romance in Foolish Hearts, a YA novel about expanding your horizons, allowing yourself to be vulnerable, and accepting--and loving--people for who they really are.

A contemporary young adult novel by Emma Mills about a girl whose high school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream leads her to new friends--and maybe even new love.]]> 320 Emma Mills 1627799370 kenzy 4 ꗃㆍ2024, ꕮㆍloves if adorableness were a book 4.22 2017 Foolish Hearts
author: Emma Mills
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2017
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/23
date added: 2025/01/08
shelves: ꗃㆍ2024, ꕮㆍloves
review:
if adorableness were a book
]]> <![CDATA[Beautiful World, Where Are You]]> 58146174
Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are still young � but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They worry about sex and friendship and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?]]> 337 Sally Rooney 0571365434 kenzy 3 ꗃㆍ2024 3.65 2021 Beautiful World, Where Are You
author: Sally Rooney
name: kenzy
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2021
rating: 3
read at: 2024/11/20
date added: 2025/01/08
shelves: ꗃㆍ2024
review:

]]> The Reaper (Dark Verse #2) 54475616 What happens when the untameable wind and the endless sea collide in the dark of the night?

Tristan ‘The Predator� Caine had been unprepared for Morana Vitalio. After spending his entire life with a vow he broke on a rainy night, he finds himself torn in a battle between his painful past and an uncertain future. The only thing he knows? Her life still belongs to him.

For Morana, the line between enemies and allies has blurred. Everything she once held dear to her has disintegrated and the unknown gapes at her, leaving her with both her freedom and life on the line in enemy territory. The only thing she knows? His life has always belonged to her.

With twenty years of history tying them to each other, Tristan and Morana begin their hunt for the truth together. And they realize that the mystery of the missing girls is just the tip of the iceberg.

Skeletons are uncovered. Dominoes begin to fall.

A storm is born.]]> 292 RuNyx kenzy 4 ꗃㆍ2024, ꕮㆍloves <blockquote>₊˚� </blockquote> 4.34 2020 The Reaper (Dark Verse #2)
author: RuNyx
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2024/07/10
date added: 2025/01/08
shelves: ꗃㆍ2024, ꕮㆍloves
review:
₊˚�

]]> I Hope This Doesn't Find You 124932739 I Hope This Doesn't Find You is Never Have I Ever meets To All the Boys if Lara Jean wrote hate emails instead of love letters.

Sadie Wen is perfect on paper: school captain, valedictorian, and a "pleasure to have in class." It’s not easy, but she has a trick to keep her model-student smile plastered on her face at all times: she channels all her frustrations into her email drafts. She'd never send them of course -- she'd rather die than hurt anyone's feelings -- but it's a relief to let loose on her power-hungry English teacher or a freeloading classmate taking credit for Sadie's work.

All her most vehemently worded emails are directed at her infuriating cocaptain, Julius Gong, whose arrogance and competitive streak have irked Sadie since they were kids. "You're attention starved and self-obsessed and unbearably vain . . . I really hope your comb breaks and you run out of whatever expensive hair products you've been using to make your hair appear deceptively soft..."

Sadie doesn't have to hold back in her emails, because nobody will ever read them... that is, until they're accidentally sent out.

Overnight, Sadie’s carefully crafted, conflict-free life is turned upside down. It's her worst nightmare -- now everyone at school knows what she really thinks of them, and they're not afraid to tell her what they really think of her either. But amidst the chaos, there's one person growing to appreciate the "real" Sadie -- Julius, the only boy she's sworn to hate...]]> 320 Ann Liang 1338827154 kenzy 4 ꗃㆍ2024, ꕮㆍloves finished � 10 ≀ ᥲpɾ ≀ 24 .�
˚ � .˚
]]> 4.17 2024 I Hope This Doesn't Find You
author: Ann Liang
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2024/04/10
date added: 2025/01/08
shelves: ꗃㆍ2024, ꕮㆍloves
review:
finished � 10 ≀ ᥲpɾ ≀ 24 .�
˚ � .˚

]]> <![CDATA[Paint It All Red (Mindf*ck, #5)]]> 60546028 Will Logan choose them? Or will we watch them burn together?
It's time to
fuck with their minds. It's time to finish it all. It's time to paint it all red...
Monsters don't usually wish for happily-ever-afters.]]> 176 S.T. Abby kenzy 5 ꕤㆍbr, ꗃㆍ2024 4.33 2016 Paint It All Red (Mindf*ck, #5)
author: S.T. Abby
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2024/03/03
date added: 2025/01/08
shelves: ꕤㆍbr, ꗃㆍ2024
review:

]]> All the Lies (Mindf*ck, #4) 60546023 inside their heads. It's a dangerous place to be, especially
when you start to empathize and lose your own sense of
morality. But that's never happened to me�.
I've never felt conflicted on any case. Right is right and wrong is
wrong. It's simple. Black and white. There's no such thing
as a gray area. But fuck this case. I don't even know what
side I'm on anymore. I don't understand how this town can
continue to function without breaking under the weight of
all the lies they've spun and lived. Every time I find a
shard of truth, my gut twists, my heart beats faster, and I
hate this place a little more. Every time I think I've heard
the worst, another truth is dug up from the ashes of more
burning lies. Worst of all, I don't even know who to trust
anymore. My head is all messed up. I pride myself on
being imposible to fool. I'm an expert at knowing when
someone is lying to me. I never believed in being blinded
by love……until Lana.
**BE WARNED: Some flashbacks can
get intense to readers with a sensitive trigger. Skip the
blocks in italics if that's the case.]]> 141 S.T. Abby kenzy 5 ꕤㆍbr, ꗃㆍ2024, ꕤㆍsobbing 4.29 2016 All the Lies (Mindf*ck, #4)
author: S.T. Abby
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2024/02/27
date added: 2025/01/08
shelves: ꕤㆍbr, ꗃㆍ2024, ꕤㆍsobbing
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment, #2)]]> 201117121 The epic conclusion to the intensely romantic and beautifully written story that started in Divine Rivals.

Two weeks have passed since Iris returned home bruised and heartbroken from the front, but the war is far from over.

Roman is missing, lost behind enemy lines, with no memory of his past, or Iris. Hoping his memories return, he begins to write again � but this time for the enemy.

When a strange letter arrives through his wardrobe door, he strikes up a correspondence with a penpal who seems at once mysterious� and strangely familiar.

As their connection deepens, the two of them will risk their very hearts and futures to change the tides of the war.


Praise for Divine Rivals:
‘Rich and romantic � if stories had scent, this one would smell like a mug of black tea, the ink ribbons of a typewriter, and that addictive spice called enemies to lovers�
Shelby Mahurin, New York Times bestselling author
of Serpent & Dove

‘A sweeping start to a beautiful and romantic new series. Ross weaves her stories in such a vulnerable and delicate way, truly with a style all her own. I adored this book�
Adalyn Grace, New York Times bestselling author of Belladonna

Readers love Iris and Roman:
‘The most tender rivals to lovers romance I’ve ever read.�
‘My heart by the end couldn't take anymore!�
‘Easily a top read for me and definitely a new favourite. I will never stop recommending this book.�
‘A truly moving story and very unlike anything I’ve read lately.’]]> 420 Rebecca Ross 0008588236 kenzy 3
Keep writing. You will find the words you need to share.They are already within you, even in the shadows, hiding like jewels.


I was so so excited for this book after "Divine Rivals," hoping it would be even better. I was convinced that I'm gonna love this one more than the first one. I thought there would be more improvements for this book.

This book, .... it was really really slow! It took me three days to get through 20%, and with that ending in the first book, I expected that I'd be on the edge of my seat from the first page. Instead, I was really disappointed, i get to the point I just wanted to finish it not to really enjoy it like I thought I'd . Maybe my sky-high expectations or that I jumped from the first book to this were the problem, but the boredom was real.

When I get to like 40% and still didn't see any developments I almost DNF'd it, but kept going, hoping it will gets better and make up for the slow beginning. Around 60%, things finally picked up, and I began to enjoy it and the things from then was getting better, but it didn't get so much better that it made up for the beginning of the book.

Part four of the book was really good I enjoyed it so much it made me cry, angry and happy. It broke my heart then put it back together again. It was rollercoaster of feelings then when I was glad that I didn't DNF'd

irisroman OMFG HOW MUCH I LOVE AND ADORE THEM ]]> 4.02 2023 Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment, #2)
author: Rebecca Ross
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2023
rating: 3
read at: 2023/12/31
date added: 2025/01/08
shelves: ꕤㆍsobbing, ꕤㆍdisappointing, ꗃㆍ2023
review:
3.5 stars ⋆˙⟡

Keep writing. You will find the words you need to share.They are already within you, even in the shadows, hiding like jewels.


I was so so excited for this book after "Divine Rivals," hoping it would be even better. I was convinced that I'm gonna love this one more than the first one. I thought there would be more improvements for this book.

This book, .... it was really really slow! It took me three days to get through 20%, and with that ending in the first book, I expected that I'd be on the edge of my seat from the first page. Instead, I was really disappointed, i get to the point I just wanted to finish it not to really enjoy it like I thought I'd . Maybe my sky-high expectations or that I jumped from the first book to this were the problem, but the boredom was real.

When I get to like 40% and still didn't see any developments I almost DNF'd it, but kept going, hoping it will gets better and make up for the slow beginning. Around 60%, things finally picked up, and I began to enjoy it and the things from then was getting better, but it didn't get so much better that it made up for the beginning of the book.

Part four of the book was really good I enjoyed it so much it made me cry, angry and happy. It broke my heart then put it back together again. It was rollercoaster of feelings then when I was glad that I didn't DNF'd

irisroman OMFG HOW MUCH I LOVE AND ADORE THEM
]]> Frisky the Snowman 203755058 light Lauren Biel romance, but still weird!In winter's embrace, I revel in the snow, sculpting whimsical snowmen that bring joy to my chilly solitude. But beneath the frosty gaze of winter, an unexpected admirer emerges with an obsession that ignites the season's spice. As Frisky the Snowman takes on a life of his own, a frosty liaison unfolds, turning a wintry fantasy into a sizzling Christmas affair.Frisky the snowman is a spicy snowmance novelette! Check out the content warnings on Laurenbiel.com!]]> 52 Lauren Biel 1959618121 kenzy 1 ꕤㆍum, ꗃㆍ2023
I know no one will believe me but I think this is the last time I'll ever read anything like this]]> 3.39 2023 Frisky the Snowman
author: Lauren Biel
name: kenzy
average rating: 3.39
book published: 2023
rating: 1
read at: 2023/12/24
date added: 2025/01/08
shelves: ꕤㆍum, ꗃㆍ2023
review:
HOW THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO EAT CORRECTS AGAIN?

I know no one will believe me but I think this is the last time I'll ever read anything like this
]]> <![CDATA[Better Than Before (Betting on You, #0.5; Better than the Movies, #0.5)]]> 200674043 42 Lynn Painter 1665945699 kenzy 4 ꗃㆍ2023 WES. FUCKING. BENNETT 4.15 2023 Better Than Before (Betting on You, #0.5; Better than the Movies, #0.5)
author: Lynn Painter
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2023/12/24
date added: 2025/01/08
shelves: ꗃㆍ2023
review:
WES. FUCKING. BENNETT
]]> <![CDATA[The Party (Better than the Movies, #1.2)]]> 133126470 21 Lynn Painter kenzy 3 ꗃㆍ2023 he's soo obsessed with her 4.50 The Party (Better than the Movies, #1.2)
author: Lynn Painter
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.50
book published:
rating: 3
read at: 2023/12/24
date added: 2025/01/08
shelves: ꗃㆍ2023
review:
he's soo obsessed with her
]]> <![CDATA[Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)]]> 74778950 No god, no creature, no war can come between them

When two young rival journalists find love through a magical connection, their fate depends on their facing the depths of hell� together.

After centuries of sleep, the gods are warring again�

All eighteen-year-old Iris Winnow wants to do is hold her family together. With a brother on the frontline forced to fight on behalf of the Gods now missing from the frontline and a mother drowning her sorrows, Iris’s best bet is winning the columnist promotion at the Oath Gazette.

But when Iris’s letters to her brother fall into the wrong hands � that of the handsome but cold Roman Kitt, her rival at the paper � an unlikely magical connection forms.

Expelled into the middle of a mystical war, magical typewriters in tow, can their bond withstand the fight for the fate of mankind and, most importantly, love?

An epic enemies-to-lovers fantasy novel filled with hope and heartbreak, and the unparalleled power of love.]]> 368 Rebecca Ross 0008588171 kenzy 5 ꕮㆍloves, ꕤㆍsobbing, ꗃㆍ2023 4.16 2023 Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)
author: Rebecca Ross
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2023
rating: 5
read at: 2023/12/23
date added: 2025/01/08
shelves: ꕮㆍloves, ꕤㆍsobbing, ꗃㆍ2023
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]]> Unhinged 187684551
Someone’s been watching Tana closely, but he’s a lot closer than she realizes. From intimate moments to lazy afternoons on the couch, he’s secretly seen it all - and fallen for her along the way. The problem is that someone else is watching too, and his obsession with Tana is a lot more dangerous. When a man claiming to be her front door enters her dreams to warn her about an imminent threat to her life, Tana initially chalks it up to her weird late-night snacks. But she rethinks things when her earnest visitor insists he’s also ready to protect her - in exchange for one hell of a favor. When Tana trades her best line of defense for an unlikely supernatural ally, the threat lurking beyond her apartment hallway starts getting desperate as the law closes in. Can her inhuman companion save her from the worst of humanity, or is it too late for both of them?

Content Unhinged is a paranormal romance story that involves a human woman getting it on with her front door, which later turns into a guy. This story contains...a lot of stuff that would probably land me on the naughty list with bots from our benevolent overlords if I went into detail in this blurb. Please peek at the look inside for a better idea of what to expect, cool? ;)]]> 71 Vera Valentine kenzy 1 ꕤㆍum, ꗃㆍ2023 At least I learned to not let my curiosity get better of me]]> 3.00 2023 Unhinged
author: Vera Valentine
name: kenzy
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2023
rating: 1
read at: 2023/12/21
date added: 2025/01/08
shelves: ꕤㆍum, ꗃㆍ2023
review:
At least I learned to not let my curiosity get better of me
]]> The Two of Us 123160766
If there’s no place like home, that’s more than okay for Mara Makinen. In fact, she prefers it that way. Going back to the place where she made the worst mistake of her life? Not ideal.

So when a family emergency forces Mara to return home to her small lake town in Maine after seven years, she knows there’s only one way she’ll get through it unscathed: Avoid Ambrose King at all costs.

But that might prove difficult considering he lives right across the street.]]> 349 Taylor Torres kenzy 4 ꕤㆍsobbing, ꗃㆍ2023 3.75 stars rounded up to 4 �

I wanted to read a book that would make me ugly cry, and this one delivered ]]> 4.03 The Two of Us
author: Taylor Torres
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.03
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2023/12/15
date added: 2025/01/08
shelves: ꕤㆍsobbing, ꗃㆍ2023
review:
3.75 stars rounded up to 4 �

I wanted to read a book that would make me ugly cry, and this one delivered
]]> <![CDATA[The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue]]> 62801227
Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world.

But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.]]> 545 Victoria E. Schwab 1803364181 kenzy 5 ꕮㆍadore, ꕤㆍsobbing, ꗃㆍ2023 4.5 Stars�

I really don't know what I'm going to do after I've finished this book.]]> 4.31 2020 The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
author: Victoria E. Schwab
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2020
rating: 5
read at: 2023/12/06
date added: 2025/01/08
shelves: ꕮㆍadore, ꕤㆍsobbing, ꗃㆍ2023
review:
4.5 Stars�

I really don't know what I'm going to do after I've finished this book.
]]> <![CDATA[The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air, #3)]]> 26032912 He will be destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne.

Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold onto. Jude learned this lesson when she released her control over the wicked king, Cardan, in exchange for immeasurable power.

Now as the exiled mortal Queen of Faerie, Jude is powerless and left reeling from Cardan’s betrayal. She bides her time determined to reclaim everything he took from her. Opportunity arrives in the form of her deceptive twin sister, Taryn, whose mortal life is in peril.

Jude must risk venturing back into the treacherous Faerie Court, and confront her lingering feelings for Cardan, if she wishes to save her sister. But Elfhame is not as she left it. War is brewing. As Jude slips deep within enemy lines she becomes ensnared in the conflict’s bloody politics.

And, when a dormant yet powerful curse is unleashed, panic spreads throughout the land, forcing her to choose between her ambition and her humanity�

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black, comes the highly anticipated and jaw-dropping finale to The Folk of the Air trilogy.]]> 321 Holly Black 0316310409 kenzy 5 ꕮㆍloves, ꕤㆍsobbing, ꗃㆍ2023 this book was EVERYTHING 4.33 2019 The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air, #3)
author: Holly Black
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2019
rating: 5
read at: 2023/11/28
date added: 2025/01/08
shelves: ꕮㆍloves, ꕤㆍsobbing, ꗃㆍ2023
review:
this book was EVERYTHING
]]> <![CDATA[The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)]]> 26032887 The enchanting and bloodthirsty sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel The Cruel Prince.

You must be strong enough to strike and strike and strike again without tiring.

The first lesson is to make yourself strong.

After the jaw-dropping revelation that Oak is the heir to Faerie, Jude must keep her brother safe. To do so, she has bound the wicked king, Cardan, to her, and made herself the power behind the throne. Navigating the constantly shifting political alliances of Faerie would be difficult enough if Cardan were easy to control. But he does everything in his power to humiliate and undermine her even as his fascination with her remains undiminished.

When it becomes all too clear that someone close to Jude means to betray her, threatening her own life and the lives of everyone she loves, Jude must uncover the traitor and fight her own complicated feelings for Cardan to maintain control as a mortal in a Faerie world.]]> 336 Holly Black 0316310336 kenzy 5 ꕮㆍloves, ꗃㆍ2023 4.27 2019 The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)
author: Holly Black
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2019
rating: 5
read at: 2023/11/17
date added: 2025/01/08
shelves: ꕮㆍloves, ꗃㆍ2023
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)]]> 26032825 Of course I want to be like them. They’re beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever.

And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe.

Jude was seven when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King.

To win a place at the Court, she must defy him–and face the consequences.

As Jude becomes more deeply embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, she discovers her own capacity for trickery and bloodshed. But as betrayal threatens to drown the Courts of Faerie in violence, Jude will need to risk her life in a dangerous alliance to save her sisters, and Faerie itself.]]> 370 Holly Black 0316310271 kenzy 4 ꕮㆍloves, ꗃㆍ2023 4.01 2018 The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
author: Holly Black
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2023/11/09
date added: 2025/01/08
shelves: ꕮㆍloves, ꗃㆍ2023
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Better than the Prom (Better than the Movies, #1.5)]]> 62053108
Not only is he not going with Liz, the girl he’s loved his entire life, but Liz is going with Michael, the guy she’s loved her entire life. Talk about a nightmare.

They manage to avoid each other at the event, but every glance he steals of her in that gown, smiling up at her date, feels like a punch to his solar plexus.

But when she’s waiting for him after he ditches the dance, he realizes that nothing about the prom even matters.

Because Liz Buxbaum, in Chuck Taylors and a sweatshirt under the streetlight that shines above their spot, is actually far better than the prom.]]> 30 Lynn Painter kenzy 3 ꗃㆍ2023 4.35 2022 Better than the Prom (Better than the Movies, #1.5)
author: Lynn Painter
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2022
rating: 3
read at: 2023/11/05
date added: 2025/01/08
shelves: ꗃㆍ2023
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2)]]> 59050133
The Diamond

Death walks alongside me,
But the reaper is no match for me.
I'm trapped in a world full of monsters dressed as men, and those who aren't as they seem.
They won't keep me forever.
I no longer recognize the person I've become,
And I'm fighting to find my way back to the beast who hunts me in the night.
They call me a diamond,
But they've only created an angel of death.

The Hunter

I was born a predator,
With ruthlessness ingrained in my bones.
When what's mine is stolen from me in the night,
Like a diamond hidden within a fortress,
I find that I can no longer contain the beast.
Blood will paint the ground as I tear apart this world to find her.
And bring her back to where she belongs.
No one will escape my wrath,
Especially not those who have betrayed me.

Warning: This is the second and final installment to the Duet. You must read Haunting Adeline first.]]> 702 H.D. Carlton kenzy 2 ꕤㆍsobbing, ꗃㆍ2023 2.5 Stars�<\b>

This book traumatized me so fucking badly. It took me literally three months to finish it, and I don't think I'm the one who finished it at this point.
It was so graphic, so heavy to read that I'd stop reading so many times for the fact that I was unable to take it any longer. <\p>

]]> 4.05 2022 Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2)
author: H.D. Carlton
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2022
rating: 2
read at: 2023/12/10
date added: 2025/01/08
shelves: ꕤㆍsobbing, ꗃㆍ2023
review:
2.5 Stars�<\b>

This book traumatized me so fucking badly. It took me literally three months to finish it, and I don't think I'm the one who finished it at this point.
It was so graphic, so heavy to read that I'd stop reading so many times for the fact that I was unable to take it any longer. <\p>


]]> <![CDATA[The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King (Crowns of Nyaxia, #2)]]> 62335396 Love is a sacrifice at the altar of power.

In the wake of the Kejari, everything Oraya once thought to be true has been destroyed. A prisoner in her own kingdom, grieving the only family she ever had, and reeling from a gutting betrayal, she no longer even knows the truth of her own blood. She’s left only with one certainty: she cannot trust anyone, least of all Raihn.

The House of Night, too, is surrounded by enemies. Raihn’s own nobles are none too eager to accept a Turned king, especially one who was once a slave. And the House of Blood digs their claws into the kingdom, threatening to tear it apart from the inside.

When Raihn offers Oraya a secret alliance, taking the deal is her only chance at reclaiming her kingdom–and gaining her vengeance against the lover who betrayed her. But to do so, she’ll need to harness a devastating ancient power, intertwined with her father’s greatest secrets.

But with enemies closing in on all sides, nothing is as it seems. As she unravels her past and faces her future, Oraya finds herself forced to choose between the bloody reality of seizing power � and the devastating love that could be her downfall.]]> 626 Carissa Broadbent kenzy 5 ꗃㆍ2023 4.10 2023 The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King (Crowns of Nyaxia, #2)
author: Carissa Broadbent
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2023
rating: 5
read at: 2023/10/30
date added: 2025/01/08
shelves: ꗃㆍ2023
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]]> <![CDATA[Six Scorched Roses (Crowns of Nyaxia, #1.5)]]> 123027751
Lilith has been dying since the day she was born. But while she long ago came to terms with her own imminent death, the deaths of everyone she loves is an entirely different matter. As her town slowly withers in the clutches of a mysterious god-cursed illness, she takes matters into her own hands.

Desperate to find a cure, Lilith strikes a bargain with the only thing the gods hate even more than her village: a vampire, Vale. She offers him six roses in exchange for six vials of vampire blood–the one hope for her town’s salvation.

But when what begins as a simple transaction gradually becomes something more, Lilith is faced with a terrifying realization: It’s dangerous to wander into the clutches of a vampire� and in a place already suffering a god’s wrath, more dangerous still to fall in love with one.

Six Scorched Roses is a standalone fantasy romance novella set in the world of the Crowns of Nyaxia series, perfect for those who love dark, romantic tales with bite and fans of Sarah J. Maas or Jennifer L. Armentrout.]]> 187 Carissa Broadbent kenzy 4 ꕮㆍloves, ꗃㆍ2023 4.25 2023 Six Scorched Roses (Crowns of Nyaxia, #1.5)
author: Carissa Broadbent
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2023/10/17
date added: 2025/01/08
shelves: ꕮㆍloves, ꗃㆍ2023
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]]> <![CDATA[The Serpent and the Wings of Night (Crowns of Nyaxia, #1)]]> 60714999 Human or vampire, the rules of survival are the same: never trust, never yield, and always � always � guard your heart.

The adopted human daughter of the Nightborn vampire king, Oraya carved her place in a world designed to kill her. Her only chance to become something more than prey is entering the Kejari: a legendary tournament held by the goddess of death herself.

But winning won’t be easy amongst the most vicious warriors from all three vampire houses. To survive, Oraya is forced to make an alliance with a mysterious rival.

Everything about Raihn is dangerous. He is a ruthless vampire, an efficient killer, an enemy to her father’s crown� and her greatest competition. Yet, what terrifies Oraya most of all is that she finds herself oddly drawn to him.

But there’s no room for compassion in the Kejari. War for the House of Night brews, shattering everything that Oraya thought she knew about her home. And Raihn may understand her more than anyone � but their blossoming attraction could be her downfall, in a kingdom where nothing is more deadly than love.

The Serpent and the Wings of Night is the first book in a new series of heart-wrenching romance, dark magic, and bloodthirsty intrigue, perfect for fans of From Blood and Ash and A Court of Thorns and Roses.]]> 504 Carissa Broadbent kenzy 5 ꕮㆍloves, ꗃㆍ2023 4.30 2022 The Serpent and the Wings of Night (Crowns of Nyaxia, #1)
author: Carissa Broadbent
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2022
rating: 5
read at: 2023/10/14
date added: 2025/01/08
shelves: ꕮㆍloves, ꗃㆍ2023
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]]> <![CDATA[Shutout (Rules of the Game, #2)]]> 208292996
He's the tall, tattooed stranger I hooked up with on Halloween... and now he's my new roommate.

After a sudden cross-country move, I’m stuck crashing with my older brother and two of his hockey teammates for sophomore year. I'm not thrilled about shacking up with three athletes and their stinky gear, rotating door of hookups, and tendency to inhale every snack in the house. Just one reason of many that hockey players aren't my type.

When I walk in the front door with an armload of boxes, however, I'm faced with another problem.

My anonymous fling from two months ago is Tyler Donahue, the superstar goalie for my brother’s team.

We both agree to pretend it never happened, but it quickly becomes clear neither of us can forget. Before I know it, we're exchanging heated glances from across the room, sending spicy texts at all hours of the night, and stealing kisses behind closed doors.

Since my overprotective brother would freak out, we decide to keep things between us a secret. There’s no point in rocking the boat when I don't want a boyfriend, and Tyler doesn't have time for a girlfriend with his grueling hockey schedule. But as our no-strings arrangement turns into something deeper and more meaningful, I begin to see a softer side of the broody, closed-off goalie. He's gentle, protective, and giving in every sense of the word. Despite what I told myself going in, I'm falling hard and falling fast.

We said we'd keep things casual, but hearts have a way of breaking all the rules.

Shutout is a college hockey romance with lots of spice, swoon, and a happily ever after. It’s the second book in the Rules of the Game series and can be read as a standalone.

Tropes:

forced proximity / roommates
broody tattooed goalie hero
sunshine party girl heroine
sneaking around
ADHD and anxiety rep
dual POV]]> 336 Avery Keelan kenzy 3 ꗃㆍ2023 3.98 2023 Shutout (Rules of the Game, #2)
author: Avery Keelan
name: kenzy
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2023
rating: 3
read at: 2023/09/27
date added: 2025/01/08
shelves: ꗃㆍ2023
review:

]]> Archer's Voice 32822135
Archer's Voice is the story of a woman chained to the memory of one horrifying night and the man whose love is the key to her freedom. It is the story of a silent man who lives with an excruciating wound and the woman who helps him find his voice. It is the story of suffering, fate, and the transformative power of love.]]> 377 Mia Sheridan 1538727374 kenzy 5 ꕤㆍsobbing, ꗃㆍ2023 4.14 2014 Archer's Voice
author: Mia Sheridan
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2014
rating: 5
read at: 2023/09/20
date added: 2025/01/08
shelves: ꕤㆍsobbing, ꗃㆍ2023
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]]> <![CDATA[The Sweetest Oblivion (Made, #1)]]> 39083635
In the murky waters of New York’s underworld, Elena’s sister is arranged to marry Nicolas Russo. A Made Man, a boss, a cheat—even measured against mafia standards. His reputation stretches far and wide and is darker than his black suits and ties. After his and Elena’s first encounter ends with an accidental glare on her part, she realizes he’s just as rude as he is handsome. She doesn’t like the man or anything he stands for, though that doesn’t stop her heart from pattering like rain against glass when he’s near, nor the shiver that ghosts down her spine at the sound of his voice. And he’s always near. Telling her what to do. Making her feel hotter than any future brother-in-law should. Elena may be the Sweet Abelli on the outside, but she’s beginning to learn she has a taste for the darkness, for rough hands, cigarettes, and whiskey-colored eyes. Having already escaped one scandal, however, she can hardly afford to be swept up in another. Besides, even if he were hers, everyone knows you don’t fall in love with a Made Man... Right?]]> 384 Danielle Lori 1721284443 kenzy 4 ꕮㆍloves, ꗃㆍ2023 3.98 2018 The Sweetest Oblivion (Made, #1)
author: Danielle Lori
name: kenzy
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2023/09/15
date added: 2025/01/08
shelves: ꕮㆍloves, ꗃㆍ2023
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]]> Twisted Lies (Twisted, #4) 62058385
Charming, deadly, and smart enough to hide it, Christian Harper is a monster dressed in the perfectly tailored suits of a gentleman.

He has little use for morals and even less use for love, but he can't deny the strange pull he feels toward the woman living just one floor below him.

She's the object of his darkest desires, the only puzzle he can't solve. And when the opportunity to get closer to her arises, he breaks his own rules to offer her a deal she can't refuse.

Every monster has their weakness. She's his.

His obsession.

His addiction.

His only exception.

***

Sweet, shy, and introverted despite her social media fame, Stella Alonso is a romantic who keeps her heart in a cage.

Between her two jobs, she has little time or desire for a relationship.

But when a threat from her past drives her into the arms―and house―of the most dangerous man she's ever met, she's tempted to let herself feel something for the first time in a long time.

Because despite Christian's cold nature, he makes her feel everything when she's with him.

Passionate.

Protected.

Truly wanted.

Theirs is a love twisted with secrets and tainted by lies…and when the truths are finally revealed, they could shatter everything.]]> 560 Ana Huang 1728274893 kenzy 3 ꗃㆍ2023 4.12 2022 Twisted Lies (Twisted, #4)
author: Ana Huang
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2022
rating: 3
read at: 2023/08/25
date added: 2025/01/08
shelves: ꗃㆍ2023
review:

]]> <![CDATA[It Starts with Us (It Ends with Us, #2)]]> 60393672 Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas. Colleen Hoover tells fan favorite Atlas’s side of the story and shares what comes next in this long-anticipated sequel to the “glorious and touching� (USA TODAY) #1 New York Times bestseller It Ends with Us.

Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil coparenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. After nearly two years separated, she is elated that for once, time is on their side, and she immediately says yes when Atlas asks her on a date.

But her excitement is quickly hampered by the knowledge that, though they are no longer married, Ryle is still very much a part of her life—and Atlas Corrigan is the one man he will hate being in his ex-wife and daughter’s life.

Switching between the perspectives of Lily and Atlas, It Starts with Us picks up right where the epilogue for the “gripping, pulse-pounding� (Sarah Pekkanen, author of Perfect Neighbors) bestselling phenomenon It Ends with Us left off. Revealing more about Atlas’s past and following Lily as she embraces a second chance at true love while navigating a jealous ex-husband, it proves that “no one delivers an emotional read like Colleen Hoover� (Anna Todd, New York Times bestselling author).]]> 323 Colleen Hoover 1668001225 kenzy 2 ꕤㆍloathe, ꗃㆍ2023 3.80 2022 It Starts with Us (It Ends with Us, #2)
author: Colleen Hoover
name: kenzy
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2022
rating: 2
read at: 2023/07/29
date added: 2025/01/08
shelves: ꕤㆍloathe, ꗃㆍ2023
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]]> Believe Me (Shatter Me, #6.5) 58517502 The devastatingly romantic fifth novella in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Shatter Me series, chronicling the events after Imagine Me, the explosive sixth novel.

Juliette and Warner fought hard to take down the Reestablishment once and for all. Life in the aftermath isn’t easy, as they and their friends at the Sanctuary work with their limited resources to stabilize the world.

Warner has his sights set on more than just politics. Since he proposed to Juliette two weeks ago, he’s been eager to finally marry her, the person he loves more than anything and has endured so much to be with. But with so much chaos around them, it’s been nearly impossible for them to have a wedding. And even Juliette has been distracted by everything they need to do.

At long last, Warner and Juliette’s future together is within reach, but the world continues to try to pull them apart. Will they finally be able to be happily, officially, together?

Celebrate the tenth anniversary of Tahereh Mafi's bestselling Shatter Me series with Believe Me!]]> 177 Tahereh Mafi 0063228319 kenzy 3 ꗃㆍ2023 4.13 2021 Believe Me (Shatter Me, #6.5)
author: Tahereh Mafi
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2021
rating: 3
read at: 2023/07/29
date added: 2025/01/08
shelves: ꗃㆍ2023
review:

]]> Twisted Games (Twisted, #2) 60799683
He has never once been tempted to break those rules� until her.

Bridget von Ascheberg. A princess with a stubborn streak that matches his own and a hidden fire that reduces his rules to ash. She’s nothing he expected and everything he never knew he needed.

Day by day, inch by inch, she breaks down his defenses until he’s faced with a truth he can no longer deny: he swore an oath to protect her, but all he wants is to ruin her. Take her.

Because she’s his.

His princess.
His forbidden fruit.
His every depraved fantasy.

***

Regal, strong-willed, and bound by the chains of duty, Princess Bridget dreams of the freedom to live and love as she chooses.

But when her brother abdicates, she’s suddenly faced with the prospect of a loveless, politically expedient marriage and a throne she never wanted.

And as she navigates the intricacies—and treacheries—of her new role, she must also hide her desire for a man she can’t have.

Her bodyguard.
Her protector.
Her ultimate ruin.

Unexpected and forbidden, theirs is a love that could destroy a kingdom� and doom them both.

Twisted Games is a contemporary royal bodyguard romance. It’s book two of the Twisted series but can be read as a standalone.

Warning: This book contains a possessive alpha hero, explicit sexual content, and profanity.]]> 438 Ana Huang 034943431X kenzy 3 ꗃㆍ2023 4.05 2021 Twisted Games (Twisted, #2)
author: Ana Huang
name: kenzy
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2021
rating: 3
read at: 2023/07/29
date added: 2025/01/08
shelves: ꗃㆍ2023
review:

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