omg how did this get PUBLISHED? ( )

She tried to be the mediocre Milk and Honey and all we got was Mustard and Water.

Unlike Milk and Honey however, there's even more empty space, and more type of, and more mistakes use of paper. Most books I can say have a reason to exist, this one is just someone faking a deadline and then slapping a $17 price tag on it.

Worse, this indescribable gibberish mess is supposed to be poetry. I think it only rhymed once, and the rest of it was maybe three or four words on a page.

Disgusting money grab. I'm sorry to everyone who bought this full price.

0 stars. ( )

Normally I wouldn't count this kind of dumb book toward my goodreads reading challenge but I deserve some credit for getting through that god awful audiobook. If I have to pick my favorite part, it would be the pauses between poems.
Family is relatives. ( )

I'm not a big poetry person, but I am a millennial and I could launch into a whole big long thing about being a millennial, what that means to me vs. the rest of the world, and how Adultolescence is a perfect example of the millennial mindset, etc. etc. But that would be ranting, and annoying, and I don't want to be either today.

So let's start out with why I actually started reading this book - yes, the teenagers at the bookstore I work at did have a little something to do with why I read it so quickly after it's release date, but I bought it on Monday, before it was technically available to said teenagers for many reasons. There is, though, one that truly sticks out: Gabbie and I both went to Pitt, The University of Pittsburgh, Hail to Pitt! So not only do we have the shared experiences of being part of the same generation, we have four years worth of memories and, I'm sure if ever meet and have a chance to chat, we would be able to go on and on about Oakland (the Pittsburgh neighborhood, not the CA one), the Cathedral of Learning, the Penn State rivalry, the uniqueness of Pittsburgh weather, how awesome it was to be done for the school year before May even started, though we'd probably disagree on sports - I'll take the Eagles over the Steelers any day.

To say I connected with Gabbie and her poetry is an understatement. I have anxieties, panic attacks, and I have no idea what I want to do with my life, no really. While I love my bookstore job and I one day want to go back into teaching and I'm happily married, I still don't know what I want my life to look like in five years, ten years, twenty years (other than I would like to be employed and still happily married). My brain is filled with the same doubts and insecurities as Gabbie's and, while I don't presently make videos of my life (though I'd like to try at some point), I do have this book blog, so I guess that counts as another similarity.

Adultolescence is the perfect book for anyone who needs to know that they are not alone in the world - their doubts and fears are felt by many others as well. It is the perfect book for my generation - a week into owning it and it already looks well worn and loved because I keep going back to my already favorite poems because I've needed a pick me up or some cheering up during the week. ( )

Had some deeper stuff, but also had fillers. She did reveal more than once that she had deadlines and was, I guess, trying to shove a book out. It showed in spots. ( )