My feelings for Jane Austen are best described:

• Jane Austen is my homegirl.
• Like, too many words and stuff.
• Don't know her too well, but I'm open...
• Not my jam, man...

When it comes to history, I'm like...

• Reading about the past helps me avoid the sad reality of my life.
• I am going to need course credits...
• Sure, I could read books about the 80s. I know people who were alive then.
• Reading about the past bolsters me for the future.

Humour is:

• The only reason I read books!
• ... called 'wit' in the books I like.
• NOT SERIOUS ENOUGH
• Sprinkled throughout my favorite books.

My relationship with books:

• Monogamous, I read every book to the very last page.
• Theoretical. I feel better with a stack of books by my bed.
• The best books are movies on Netflix.
• I am saving myself for the right book.

Alexander Dumas is:

• My last name in my last life.
• Dead writers again?.
• I really should know who that is.
• Hey! I actually know who that is!

History of Canada and the Prairies is...

• The only history I care about.
• I get enough about it at family reunions.
• Is there a love story?
• Does someone get killed?

If I was shipwrecked on a desert island, I would want to bring...

• The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
• Far From the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
• Persuasion, by Jane Austen
• Longbourn, by Jo Baker
• The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexander Dumas
• The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
• Twelve Years a Slave, by Solomon Northup
• And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie
• The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O’Neill
• Catch 22, by Joseph Heller
• Dracula
• On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
• Emily Dickinson: Letters, by Emily Dickinson

My kind of book has:

• Fiction based on real events.
• Mystery, secrets, culture clash.
• A relatable storyline/characters.
• Escapism.