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As most of you probably know, I am quite obsessed with the To All the Boy's series by: Jenny Han. It is my pick me up series, and I re-read it a solid three times a year

That Time I Loved You by: Carrianne Leung: 5/5 starsHecuba by: Euripides: 4/5 starsInsurgent by: Veronica Roth: 3/5 starsMedea by: Euripides: 3.5/5 starsNervous Conditions by: Tsitsi Dangarembga: 3/5 starsMy reading was once again dominated by books read for school, but I still did enjoy some of them! This post was really the first time I admitted to myself my true feelings about publishing, and I'm glad I wrote it. This Sunday I am going to see one of my favourite musicals, Dear Evan Hansen, for the first time on stage.

By using the backdrop of the suicides, Leung was able to open up these stories of various neighbours from many cultures in the community, and I truly felt bad for every single one of them. I think that Leung is really talented in writing stories that come full circle, a technique that I have not yet mastered but that I admire in a lot of authors. At the end of the novel, there is a strong aspect of hope, which I think is extremely important when handling subject matter such as this. Overall, as someone who doesn't read a lot of short fiction, this book does not read like it at all.

I often feel like I am on some sort of clock, that I need to start forming this WIP because if I want to get published in 5-10 years, the process needs to start now. The truth is, I don't think I will ever be at the point where I want to share my writing with the world. That's when I got thinking, maybe I don't want to write the work, maybe I want to edit it? Now forgive my ignorance, I honestly have no idea if you can even edit professionally without having published anything yourself, but I really want to expand my editing skills and maybe see if I can reach out to others and lend my expertise.