Maria Dahvana Headley

A playwright describes how she decided to accept a date with every person who asked her out for an entire year, including a millionaire who lived with his mother, a gay actor, and a divorced man with kids whom she ended up marrying.

The Year of Yes

agnese

dnf at 58%

I had a feeling this moment would come. This book was so promising from the start, but I figured out the ending about 20 pages in (and yes, I skimmed the last chapter to check if I was right) and I didn't care enough to read the whole book. I found the main character's humor repetitive, and her comments on the people around her a little tone-deaf. I kept telling myself that it was just a first impression and that it would change eventually, but it didn't. Maybe being an NYU student does give you a sense of superiority that forces you to treat everyone else as a walking stereotype, or maybe that's just what the author's like as a person.

The Year of Yes

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