Wednesday Reading

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Finished Reading Since Last WR
This is my first Wednesday Reading, but I most recently finished Half His Age. It took my just a few days to read it because I couldn't put it down! Jeanette McCurdy writes in a really addictive, raw, and blunt style. It was really good, an easy five stars from me. What surprised me about it was how much agency and control she gave the main character--how she was the younger pursuer in the age gap relationship and how other characters around her ruined their lives. The book didn't feel like a warning or patronizing, but you could see this unhealthy relationship play out because the main character's home life was so bad and she felt so directionless that she just wanted to reach out and control something. The writing captured desperation and shame and awkwardness really well. Not a comfortable read, but it'll be one of my favorites this year, I think.

Currently Reading
I'm currently reading A Deadly Inside Scoop by Abby Collette. It's fine so far. I'm not big on "cozy" books or mystery books and this is, well, a cozy mystery--which seems to be a popular genre. And I don't know how much of the dullness I can blame on the genre and how much I can blame on the writing. I like set the up (a woman returns home to Small Town, Ohio to run her family's ice cream shop and someone gets murdered just outside its door) and the characters (said character takes all the action into her own hands with her friend's help trying to find the killer since the police are suspecting her father), but I'm not on the edge of my seat. It's especially cozy and slow, with plenty of time for fluff and ice cream and flirting with a local professor. I guess proper mystery might be more my speed. I'm almost done with the book too and honestly I have no idea who committed the murder. I am only sure that it's not actually her dad because of the cozy nature. We'll see.

Reading Next
On a whim, I stopped at the library a few days ago and got two books: Michelle Obama's Becoming and T. Kingfisher's Nettle and Bone. I'll flip a coin when I'm finished with Inside Scoop to decide which to read, unless someone has a recommendation either way?