Alessandra is reading…

📚October Wrap-up📚 last month’s reading and thoughts

However I am perceived and deceived
However my ignorance and conceits,
lay aside your fears that I will be undone,
for I shall not be moved.
Maya Angelou, Our Grandmothers 

My favorite excerpt from Maya Angelo’s book of 4 poems that I read on a quiet night last week.

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What a lovely month of reading for me, filled with some enjoyable books, a ton of reflective thinking, and a wild amount of events in my personal life. I’m not really sure how I read so much and got a ton done outside of reading as well. Maybe it’s because I’ve been thinking a lot about David Goggins’ Can’t Hurt Me and keep pushing myself to be better.

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Fiction I grazed this month
❤Slade House by David Mitchell
🧡Sea Witch Rising by Sarah Henning
💛The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
❤In the Woods by Tana French
🧡The Farm by Tom Rob Smith
❤️‍🔥Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
💛The Littlest Library by Poppy Alexander

Nonfiction I engaged with
❤️Breakfast with Socrates by Robert Rowland Smith

Gorgeous poetry I reveled in
🧡Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women by Maya Angelou

Abandoned but to be returned to
💛Pretty Baby by Mary Kubica

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Even though I read God Help the Child by Toni Morrison in September, I can’t stop thinking about it. So here’s a quote from it:

Correct what you can; learn from what you can’t.

This seems so intrinsically important to me, but I’ve seen others who don’t ascribe to this.

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Currently reading:
💛What We Fed To the Manticore by Talia Lakshmi Kolluri

Read on and enjoy November 🧡