RIP (Read In Progress) Wednesday

[quillpunk]

There's a rumor going around this part of the solar system that it might be Wednesday again. What are the odds of that, I humbly ask. But, well, just in case...

What are you reading? 👀

Comments

[yhlee]

Middle grade is one down (ages 8 to 12), purely as an artificial US traditional publishing marketing category. :) Edit: this is terrible to admit but a lot of modern MG is harder for me because it's simplified down a l

[olivermoss]

It was listed as YA, but it won a middle grade book award so that might be what's going on. It's trying to both teach writing and also 'be written like kid' at the same time and that just doesn't work for anyone outside that age group.

It was the one FTM trans book I saw on multiple LGBT book lists for Pride, so I decided to give it a try. That was just a bad pull for me and it being on the lists was likely a bit weird to begin with.