Alessandra is reading…

I don’t really like “reviewing” classics because I feel like I’m back in school and my imposter syndrome really shows through there. I did okay in literature classes in school, but I truly never liked having to dive deep into most of the books I had to read.

This is one of the reasons why I started reviewing books. Because of my aversion to analyzing what I was reading, I was just rushing through books and not remembering what had happened and didn’t have anything to look back on for my reads.

This also has made me want to reread books I had to read for school. Maybe it just hadn’t been the right time for me to enjoy them (and I really didn’t enjoy school until I got to college). Or maybe it was just the tests and anxiety that came along with them that made me not enjoy reading those books. So I’ve reread some books from previous years’ assignments and then some. Because I’m also very interested in old books.

Books published [before 1970] that I’ve read in the past ~4years:

• James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
• Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
• The Manticore by Robertson Davies
• World of Wonders by Robertson Davies
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• To Have or To Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
• Siddartha by Herman Hesse
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
• Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• The Pearl by John Steinbeck
• The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien
• Candide by Voltaire

Writing those out really made me feel better because I thought I’ve not read that many older books. My next personal goal to tackle with older books is reviewing them more.

The books on my horizon that I’d like to read soon (hopefully in the next couple months):

• Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
• Hypatia by Charles Kingsley
• War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy

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Read on.