{"id":5946,"date":"2026-03-31T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=5946"},"modified":"2026-03-31T05:05:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:05:00","slug":"half-his-age-by-jennette-mccurdy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=5946","title":{"rendered":"Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Half His Age<\/strong> by Jennette McCurdy<\/a>
on January 20, 2026
Genres:<\/strong> Fiction \/ Romance \/ Contemporary<\/a>
Pages:<\/strong> 288
Format:<\/strong> Hardcover<\/a>
Buy on Amazon<\/a>
Goodreads<\/a> <\/p>\n

Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Forceful. Hurting. Perceptive. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of all: Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher with the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the bills, with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks and the growing paunch. She doesn\u2019t know why she wants him. Is it his passion? His life experience? The fact that he knows books and films and things that she doesn\u2019t? Or is it purer than that, rooted in their unlikely connection, their kindred spirits, the similar filter with which they each take in the world around them? Or, perhaps, it\u2019s just enough that he sees her when no one else does.<\/p>\n

Half His Age<\/em>\u00a0is vulgar. It\u2019s bold, piercing, poignant. McCurdy has created something uncomfortably evocative. She really does not let us doubt for a moment what\u2019s happening to Waldo, and yet she manages to balance that with some really careful nuance and characterization that reveals so much if you take the time to notice it. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s so refreshing to have one of these books where the girl isn\u2019t a perfect victim: Waldo\u2019s unlikeable; she\u2019s self-centered in a way you\u2019d call narcissistic if she were an adult. She judges everyone around her; she over-consumes; she\u2019s sexually aggressive; she actively pursues this balding married man, her teacher, from day one.\u00a0Yet she doubts herself implicitly; buys makeup and clothes in excess to feel something, wants to shape herself into everything she thinks others want her to be. She is ashamed of her upbringing, she self-deprecates by calling herself white trash before others can make the comment themselves. She\u2019s a walking contradiction in clothes she hates and makeup that doesn\u2019t match her face \u2014 exactly as a 17 year old girl would be! I almost hated her, yet wanted so badly to give her a hug and give her the advice and care she clearly never received from her Mother.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t necessarily think this is a perfect book, but with the way I kept wanting to scream at the characters and throw it at the wall it feels wrong not to give it almost five stars. So I have rated it 4.5. This could obviously be quite triggering for some, but if you can handle the subject matter I absolutely recommend it.<\/p>\n

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Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy on January 20, 2026 Genres: Fiction \/ Romance \/ Contemporary Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover Buy on Amazon Goodreads Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Forceful. Hurting. Perceptive. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of all: Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}