Goodreads Choice Awards Book Club discussion

Winner of the Graphic Novel Award

Adulthood Is a Myth by Sarah Andersen



Are you a special snowflake?

Do you enjoy networking to advance your career?

Is adulthood an exciting new challenge for which you feel fully prepared?

Ugh. Please go away.

This book is for the rest of us. These comics document the wasting of entire beautiful weekends on the internet, the unbearable agony of holding hands on the street with a gorgeous guy, dreaming all day of getting home and back into pajamas, and wondering when, exactly, this adulthood thing begins. In other words, the horrors and awkwardnesses of young modern life.

Anyone read / is reading this one? What do you think?

Picked this up a couple of days ago and finished it the same day. A quick, easy and fun read. I had a couple of laugh out loud moments and the odd smile but it didn't blow me away.

Totally agree it should have been a nominee but not sure I agree that it was the winner.

I'm not going to read this one.

I wish they would make this category more strictly Graphic Novels. Funny comics can be great as well and I would love to see more of those in the humor category, but that's truly a completely different genre. There are so many wonderful, beautiful stories in both content and illustrations in the Graphic Novel genre that it's a bit disappointing to me to have a stick-figure jokes one win the category. Hope this shall not be repeated again this year as I saw another one of these on the current nominees list.

Likewise Lynn: I started and finished it 30 minutes or so after. At first, I thought there was nothing special/funny about it and then I started laughing out loud. So yes, a quick and fun read.

@Janina: I totally understand your point.

I wanted to read this one, but my library doesn't have it. I haven't decided if I want to pay to get a Kindle copy. Kindle isn't always the best format and it's still a bit more than I'd like to pay for something that will be read so quickly. It looks cute, I'm just not sure about purchasing.

I picked up as it was on the read list and all of us on staff at our library wanted to read it....funny but there were better humor books that should have won -- got a few good laughs out of it and got passed around to some of our patrons that enjoy humor books. Glad to have read it though but not memorable at the end of the day. Would not have purchased.

Chris wrote: "....funny but there were better humor books that should have won --"

See, it didn't win the humour category, it won the Graphic Novel category. However I believe there was better graphic novel books that should have won lol

I just got it and as others have said it was a quick read. I found it relatable and funny, but my husband called it awful, dark and depressing. I guess it is all in one's point of view.

Lynn wrote: "Chris wrote: "....funny but there were better humor books that should have won --"

See, it didn't win the humour category, it won the Graphic Novel category. However I believe there was better gra..."
I totally agree - thought it won in Humor - much better Graphic novels were up in voting - was surprised this won.

I quite liked this. I think it did a great job balancing some of the low grade depression and anxiety a lot of people feel during periods of transition, and the humor was on point. I'm surprised her "How I Spend Money" didn't make it in, because I think GR folk would appreciate it: https://i.pinimg.com/564x/92/15/be/92...

I've seen her "How I Spend Money" before, Esse. Funny and I can definitely relate. :)

A quick, easy, and funny read. I definitely had some LOL moments. What really scared me was how much I related to some of the scribbles!