Adulting Disrupts MsNick's Reading - A Sad Little List for 2017

January 2017 Reads:

1. The Mothers: A Novel by Brit Bennett 4/5
2. Two Across by Jeffrey Bartsch 4/5
3. The Sellout: A Novel by Paul Beatty 4/5

February 2017 Reads:

4. Woman No. 17: A Novel by Edan Lepucki 3.5/5
5. Commonwealth by Ann Patchett 4/5
6. The Hot One: A Memoir of Friendship, Sex, and Murder by Carolyn Murnick 2.5/5
7. Oola: A Novel by Brittany Newell 1/5
8. The Portable Veblen: A Novel by Elizabeth McKenzie 3.5/5

March 2017 Reads:

9. Stephan's Web: A Pearls Before Swine Collection by Stephan Pastis 4/5
10. Jam-Packed FoxTrot: A FoxTrot Treasury by Bill Amend 4/5
11. The Little French Bistro by Nina George 4/5
12. Natchez Burning by Greg Iles 4.5/5

April 2017 Reads:

13. The Bone Tree by Greg Iles 4.5/5
14. Mississippi Blood by Greg Iles 4.5/5
15. Our Short History by Lauren Grodstein 4/5

May 2017 Reads:

16. Before the Fall by Noah Hawley 3.5/5
17. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot 4/5
18. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher 3/5
19. My Sunshine Away by M. O. Walsh 3/5

A sad little list would have no books on it so you are ahead of the game. Welcome :)

>6 Yells: Thank you! :)

Adulting is getting in the way of my reading this year, so I can relate. My list is sadder than yours, if that helps.

>8 Nickelini: Adulting is VERY overrated!

>9 MsNick: So overrated. I found out about that again today.

>10 Nickelini: Perhaps we should form a support group. ;)

June 2017 Reads:

20. Black-Eyed Susans by Julia Heaberlin 4/5
21. How to Behave in a Crowd by Camille Bordas 3.5/5
22. Steel Magnolias - Acting Edition by Robert Harling 4.5/5
23. The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta 3.5/5
24. Everything We Lost by Valerie Geary 2/5

July 2017 Reads:

25. The Child by Fiona Barton 4/5
26. Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew Sullivan 4.5/5
27. Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong 4/5
28. Final Girls by Riley Sager 4/5
29. Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick DeWitt 4/5
30. The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg 4/5

August 2017 Reads:

31. The Survivor's Guide to Family Happiness by Maddie Dawson 3/5
32. The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney 2/5
33. We Wear the Mask by Brando Skyhorse 3/5
34. From Cradle to Stage: Stories from the Mothers Who Rocked and Raised Rock Stars by Virginia Hanlon Grohl 3.5/5

September 2017 Reads:

35. The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks 3.5/5
36. Emma in the Night by Wendy Walker 4/5
37. The Dog Stars by Peter Heller 4.5/5
38. The Best Kind of People by Zoe Whittall 3.5/5
39. Cruel Beautiful World by Caroline Leavitt 4/5
40. The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen by Hendrik Groen 2/5

October 2017 Reads:

41. Revival by Stephen King 4/5
42. Grief Cottage by Gail Godwin 4/5
43. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 3/5
44. Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix 4/5
45. A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay 3/5

November 2017 Reads:

46. All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater 4/5
47. Talking as Fast as I Can by Lauren Graham 3/5
48. Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney 4/5
49. Good Me Bad Me by Ali Land 4/5
50. Best Day Ever by Kaira Rouda 4/5
51. Lucy & Andy Neanderthal by Jeffrey Brown 3.5/5

>12 MsNick: Did you also watch "The Leftovers"? It was a brain-bending, often funny, often violent show....very creative, nonlinear show.

>18 avaland: I watched 2 or 3 episodes, and then, for no reason, stopped watching. I'm pretty fickle about television. ;)

December 2017 Reads:

52. The Other Mother by Carol Goodman 4.5/5
53. 'Round Midnight by Laura McBride 4.5/5
54. Tuesday Nights in 1980 by Molly Prentiss 4/5
55. Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward 4.5/5
56. Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh 3/5