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Though I have many more novels in my house than anything else, I do have quite a collection of sketchbooks and notebooks that I have collected throughout the years. I rarely fill out a notebook or sketchbook from start to finish, the only times I have are notebooks filled with stories that I wrote back in high school and a small sketchbook I filled with notebooks and sketches in my first year of college.

The biggest reason that I never seem to finish one of these books is typically because I do not want to fill books with mixed types of writing or drawings or the book is so pretty that I’m afraid to ruin it. I have a sketchbook that I got sent from Italy that I keep within arm’s reach from my office desk,  and it’s so cute that I cannot bring myself to draw in it at all.

I know I’m not alone in this, but when I go to school one of my favourite things is shopping for new stationary. My friend and I love to buy new books, pens, markers, and post-its. Though I love to learn, there is something about buying brand new office supplies that makes me giddy.

The trouble I frequently run into with getting into a series of books – especially an ongoing one – is when there is a wait between books. I read the first book of Victoria Aveyard’s “Red Queen” series and loved it. I was quite excited to find the second one get released around the day I finished the first one. I read that book within a couple days. That was when I was put in the awful position of having to wait for the next installment.

To ease my wait I decided to read the novella that was released the first two to tide fans over during their wait. The fact that the third book is now out and I still have not gotten through the first half “Cruel Crown” probably tells you all you need to know about how much I am enjoying it. It currently resides in the trunk of my car.

Over the years, I have taken quite a few classes. A lot are random interests of mine. I have taken Drawing, Literature, Making Monsters, Geography, Hero’s Journey, Mass Extinction and LGBTQ Studies. I think my favourite of them all was Making Monsters, a study of how historically humans have projected their fears into monsters.

I rarely finish the textbooks for these classes – Mass Extinction being the exception, I’d highly recommend the Sixth Extinction – and have quite a collection of unfinished textbooks. I am trying once again to finish them, by reading at a pace of a chapter a day.

I have begun with my LGBTQ class’s textbook. I began from the beginning, as it has been quite a while since that class. I am already through the first section, the part about the historical contexts of homosexuality and transpeople from different parts of the world. As someone rather intrigued by looking at World War II from different perspectives, I found that bit most interesting.

When I read, I tend to read in spurts. One week I could read for hours every day, and read novel after novel. Other times I could be in more of a comic mood and read volumes and volumes of a comic series.

My most recent two comic series were Mockingbird and Jughead. Though I am normally more of a DC reader, Mockingbird really entertained me. It was funny and it was critical. Unfortunately, I just found out that all my waiting for issue 9 was in vain, it got cancelled.