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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Under the Greenwood Tree; by Thomas Hardy
A Bitter Fate; by Alexey Pisemsky
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
A Matter of Life by Jeffrey Brown
Autobiography of Joseph Scaliger, translated by George W. Robinson
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
The Vanishing Tower by Michael Moorcock
A Lear of the Steppes by Ivan Turgenev
The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
Mozart and Salieri by Alexander Pushkin
Downward to the Earth by Robert Silverberg
We Dream of Space by Erin Entrada Kelly
The Queen of the Air by John Ruskin
Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey
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
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
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
The Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald
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
Carmina Archilochi: the Fragments Of Archilochos
Under A Lucky Star: A Lifetime Of Adventure by Roy Chapman Andrews