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As I write this, it’s the first day of fall and, apparently (according to Wikipedia), I am banging on my keyboard at the exact time of day that fall is beginning. I’m right in the moment. And that’s good.

Summer unofficially came to an end with Labor Day last Monday, but my summer reading list still remains daunting --- that list being represented by two big stacks in my apartment. One is a pile of graphic novels and manga; the other is a stack of prose books I’m trying to get to. Both piles diminish slowly, it seems, mostly because I keep adding to them --- and then I waste valuable time rearranging them. The art of arranging and rearranging my reading lists is one I take great pride in; it was honed when I was a child and perfected over the years. It came in especially handy with comics, which had to be read in a certain order. I like to save the best for last, so the crème de la crème was always at the bottom of the pile, motivating me to read quickly through those above it; and while I did so, my anticipation would build as I knew each new book was going to be enjoyed more than the last. It wasn’t always 100% right, but it’s a system I’ve kept with all this time.