book jots


Early in 2021, I began to write short reactions after reading a book. This practice stemmed from an online community that has an “I just finished reading” section of posts. I enjoy the process and, when reading a book, look forward to jotting down a few paragraphs when I finish.

They’re written with an intention to not include plot details that might spoil something for someone who has not read the particular work.

I am slowly adding the book jots already written to the blog and adding links below. New book jots will be posted as I write them.

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Historia Brittonum (History of the Britons) by Nennius

Enola Holmes: The Graphic Novels, Book 1 by Serena Blasco

The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and Other Stories by Nikolai Leskov

Athanasius, the Hero by Lynn Harold Hough

Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy

A Bitter Fate by Alexey Pisemsky

Turgenev by Henri Troyat

Bane of the Black Sword by Michael Moorcock

The Covetous Knight by Alexander Pushkin

Chatsky (or The Misery of Having a Mind) by Alexander Griboyedov

The Birds by Aristophanes

A Matter of Life by Jeffrey Brown

Autobiography of Joseph Scaliger translated by George W. Robinson

The Infant by Denís Fonvízin

Thunder by Alexander Ostrovsky

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke

The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather

The Fortune of the Rougons by Émile Zola

Indiana Jones and the Curse of Horror Island by R. L. Stine, illustrated by David B. Mattingly

Athaliah by Jean Racine

The Miser by Molière

The Vanishing Tower by Michael Moorcock

A Lear of the Steppes by Ivan Turgenev

Britannicus by Jean Racine

The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy

Mozart and Salieri by Alexander Pushkin

The Trojan Women by Seneca

Downward to the Earth by Robert Silverberg

Eugénie Grandet by Balzac

Phaedra by Seneca

We Dream of Space by Erin Entrada Kelly

Thyestes by Seneca

Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

Pharsalia by Lucan

The Queen of the Air by John Ruskin

Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey

Orestes by Euripides

Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Ancient World: A Beginning by T. R. Glover

Hiero’s Journey by Sterling E. Lanier

The Suppliant Women by Euripides

My Ántonia by Willa Cather

The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks

Su Tung-p’o: Selections From a Sung Dynasty Poet; translated by Burton Watson

Things Fall Apart; by Chinua Achebe

The Father by August Strindberg

The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories by Ivan Turgenev

Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton by Edward Rice

Bus Station Mystery (The Boxcar Children #18) by Gertrude Chandler Warner

Home Front by Joel Rosenberg

The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks

Boyhood by Leo Tolstoy

Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov

L’Assommoir by Emile Zola

The Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald

Electra by Euripides

Argonautika by Apollonios Rhodios

From The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

My Own Two Feet: A Memoir by Beverly Cleary

Sappho: A New Translation

Carmina Archilochi: the Fragments Of Archilochos

Under A Lucky Star: A Lifetime Of Adventure by Roy Chapman Andrews

Beasts, Men, And Gods by Ferdynand Ossendowski