Alessandra is reading…

I’ve been thinking of re-organizing my books for the past few months; I’ve gone back and forth on keeping my books exactly where they are and reorganizing them completely.

As I was dusting today, I first looked at the few books I brought here from my parents’ house. When I was in high school, I would read the same books over again and again, with the occasional library books mixed in there I’m sure (because a tiger doesn’t change its stripes) – with a small bookshelf, I didn’t have much room for a ton of books. And I absolutely loved reading. It was so nice to see my old favorites – especially what I remember being my favorite book in high school, Incantation by Alice Hoffman. I’m planning on rereading all of these books, but I’m definitely rereading that old favorite soon. 

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Anyway, going against all intuition to not reorganize, I decided as I was dusting my third and largest bookshelf to say fuck it and move everything around. 

This resulted in me becoming excited to read so many of my books that I haven’t even touched or looked at in so long. Honestly, I’m so happy that I’m doing a library ban for myself because I love my collection and want to explore all of these books.

The reorganization of my books went like this (if you’re interested to read further):

• My very first bookshelf
  • First shelf – stayed as all of my psychology books
  • Second shelf – all Stephen King and most of my horror
• My second bookshelf that my fiance made for me
  • All nonfiction (with a couple extra horror and fantasy books that didn’t want to fit anywhere else)
• My biggest bookshelf
• This took a little extra thinking to organize, and was partially why I hesitated to actually do this today. 
  • The very bottom shelf – fantasy – includes Harry Potter and A Song of Ice and Fire
  • Second shelf – my owned favorites and books that I was the most excited about reading when moving things around today.
  • Third shelf – other fiction
  • Fourth shelf – the books I’ve gotten for free so I can eventually re-donate them
  • Fifth and final shelf – my classics, [mostly] everything originally published during or before the 20th century

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So many books, so I must be off to read them.

Read on.