TABOO PAGES - Half His Age
TABOO PAGES is challenging the status quo in an age where AI and mass media are threatening our critical thinking. We invite people to think, challenge and question our systems and societal norms and assumptions via reading and safe discussions.
📚 Book discussions
Every month we discuss a book that brings up different themes, such as feminism, women's health and the medical system, philosophy, traditional novels, financial shame, death, sex & pleasure.
👭 Safe community
This is not a women-only book club. Everyone is welcomed and we actually urge EVERYONE to join and discuss these important topics (that will shape our future) together.
💡 Supporting mission-driven innovation
Taboo Pages offers a community and a space open to trying, sharing and supporting mission-driven solutions. We’re happy to share your products and services if you need beta testers or focus groups. We also promote businesses that align with our values.
This time we'll be reading Half His Age by Jenette McCurdy.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of I’m Glad My Mom Died comes a sad, funny, thrilling novel about sex, consumerism, class, desire, loneliness, the internet, rage, intimacy, power, and the (oftentimes misguided) lengths we’ll go to in order to get what we want.
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’t 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’t? 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’s just enough that he sees her when no one else does.
Startlingly perceptive, mordantly funny, and keenly poignant, Half His Age is a rich character study of a yearning seventeen-year-old who disregards all obstacles—or attempts to overcome them—in her effort to be seen, to be desired, to be loved.
You can buy the book on this website.
You’re welcome whether you finished the book, skimmed it, or only read part of it.
Our first session is on:
🗓️ Tuesday, April 28th
🕓 18.30
📍 Lady Of The Grapes, Covent Garden
Lady of the Grapes is a women-owned wine bar serving wine made by female winemakers.