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Reading:

Yesterday I read Finding Mr Write, by Kelley Armstrong.

Things I liked:

1. Strong female protagonist, Yukon architect who had purchased her own house, had her own dog, and needed no one. 
2. Geeky love interest, cosplaying as a Himbo. Had firm boundaries of not just yes/no sex acts, but how he wanted to relate to the protagonist and if that wasn't a go, he wasn't going to engage romantically. 
3. The main antagonists being insecurity, past relationship baggage, misogyny, and miscommunication.

Things I didn't like:

1. The sex scenes were limpid - a bunch of teasing without pacing, a bunch of off screen public space sex, no real build-up. Maybe this was due to too much of a focus on descriptors rather than engagement/action/reaction description? Unclear.

Their story demonstrated that different people view different actions as supportive or unsupportive, and the biggest mistake you can make is not having curiousity without presumption on what someone was trying to say by initiating a talk. That I liked.

Other things I have read this week and liked:

Final Girls - Seanan McGuire - A book about a new type of therapy - one that throws you into a horror movie to show you what really matters.
Under The Whispering Door - TJ Klune  - A romance about one asshole's journey through a type of purgatory -- a tea house variety there-of.

Fiction. Takes you places, indeed.