One of my favorite projects over on YouTube is my Casual Classics series. I've been slowly building up my collection and chipping away at reading the books I've always heard talked about, but never took the time to read for myself.

Rereading The Perks of Being a Wallflower was my favorite experience so far. The final chapter was a second epilogue that was not included in the early edition I read 18 years ago. I was ugly crying, and it was the most cathartic reading experience I have ever had.

Future Casual Classics to look forward to:

• 1984 by George Orwell

• Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

• 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Emma by Jane Austen

• A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

And a million more. I'm passionate about everything I read, but this series is my passion project.