Stuff, Things, etc.: Best Books of 2017 and I did not hit my goal.

In 2017, thus far (and we'll cut it off today), I've read 60 books. I don't count the Didn't Finish (DNF) books so likely, with those added in, I probably got to my goal of 75. Last year, I read 70, so I think 60 is a perfectly respectable number. However, I don't feel like it was a great year, book-wise.

I had set a goal last December, saying that I was going to read 75 books and I...did not. In fact, shortly after I said I was going to do that, my professional life s.l.o.w.l.y started to slide downhill and then there was an emergency deployment and all that emotional trauma that goes with a failed cycle of IVF and then we were trying to buy a second house and...honestly? As I've said before, I don't read to escape. It's not comforting to me. So I just stopped reading for awhile. In 2015 and 2016, a lot of my reads were through audiobooks but I stopped doing that this past summer because something about it became the opposite of comforting and pleasant. I canceled my Audible subscription this past fall and I don't even miss it.

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Here are the best books I read this year. Maybe they weren't the best books available in the last year, but they were the best ones I happened to pick up (I read a LOT of C-rated books this year). It's so strange the way 2016 was an amazing year for books and 2017 just wasn't. Hopefully I can change that in 2018.

Fiction

Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys