Alessandra is reading…

📚August Wrap-up📚

Slowly but steadily, I am increasing the amount of books and number of pages that I’m ready per month. The second trimester of my first pregnancy isn’t kicking my ass as much as the first did, although I am still pretty busy with my farm animals. So, more books than May and June but not nearly as many as my average monthly number (last year, I averaged 8 a month).

August 2024 stats

• 5 books
• 1 nonfiction book
• 1,282 pages

In August of 2023 I read 6 books, so I’m not too far off. BUT, by this time last year I read more books than I have this year. I understand that this year is different with the farm, the business, and I’m now growing a human, but I’m still kind of disappointed. 36 books (so far this year) does not nearly measure up to 64 books – it’s almost half of what I had read by this time last year. I don’t believe that I’ll be able to beat my overall number of 2023 books this year (like I had beat my number of 2022 books last year). I have heard of third trimester insomnia (of which I had a ton of in the first trimester) so maybe I’ll be able to up my number in the fall. And then 2025 will be my year to beat the 2024 number of books read.

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I enjoyed most of what I read this month, except for The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, which I read so I can understand what is going on with the atrocities that are the current US government.

What I did enjoy, though, were the following titles

• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• Gerald’s Game by Stephen King
• The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary

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I also finished a very interesting baby book (How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm: And Other Adventures in Parenting by Mei-Ling Hopgood) that I carried over from June or July, of which each chapter contained a different culture’s way of parenting, i.e. the Japanese allow their children to fight it out (which I am planning on doing to an extent).

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I am currently reading and relaxing with

• Hypnobirthing by Siobhan Miller
• Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King

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Kick some ass this September.