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.