Miembrositaroundandglare(she/her)

College almost ruined reading for me. I was a politics major, which meant that reading was the bulk of my work. There was always more to read than I was ever going to actually get done, which meant a constant sense of guilt surrounding books. They felt like work. I expected this to stop after college.

It didn't.

It was almost three years after my graduation that I was really able to start reading again. There are two things that saved me. Book collecting and comic books. Book collecting reminded me that I loved books, even if I didn't want to read one right this very moment. I kept grabbing books that caught my eye or my imagination. I started with reference, things I could flip through. I expanded my selection of cookbooks & gardening books greatly as I dreamed of my own homestead. The thing that really got me back into narrative was comics. I was recommended Saga by Brian K Vaughn and it was a whole world of delight.

It has been wonderful.