Date Read: March 20 Translated by Alan Boucher Genre: Folktales and Mythology Rating: 4/5 I really enjoyed this book. If you can find it, it’s always fun to read folktales that are new. The Icelandic folktales definitely have a strong focus on changelings, and there are elements that are similar to more well-known stories, butContinue reading “Elves, Trolls, and Elemental Beings”
Category Archives: Translated
A River in Darkness
Date Read: February 28 Author: Masaji Ishikawa Genre: Nonfiction Rating: 5/5 Masaji Ishikawa was born in Japan to a Japanese mother and a Korean father. When he was thirteen, his family moved to North Korea. In his memoir, translated from Japanese, Ishikawa tells the story of his life and the thirty-six years he spent strugglingContinue reading “A River in Darkness”
The Aeneid
Date Read: February 19 Author: Virgil This is another book for my English class. I enjoyed it more than reading philosophy, but I do not enjoy poetry very much, and so reading The Aeneid was too much poetry for my taste.
Tao Te Ching
Date Read: February 8 Author: Lao-Tzu Another book for my English class. I enjoyed Lao-Tzu more than Confucius, and was happy to realize that I recognized a few of the Chinese characters in the margins.
The Analects of Confucius
Date Read: February 3 Author: Confucius This is another book that I read for English, and I enjoyed it more than Nichomachean Ethics.
Nichomachean Ethics
Date Read: January 20 Author: Aristotle Genre: Ethics I read this for my English class in college, and it presents some interesting ideas concerning ethics and virtue. However, I did not like the style of the book, as it is a collection of notes taken by Aristotle’s students and then posthumously collected into a book.Continue reading “Nichomachean Ethics”
All Quiet on the Western Front
Date Read: January 14 Author: Erich Maria Remarque Genre: Historical Fiction Rating: 5/5 I haven’t always enjoyed classic novels when I have read them for classes, and so I was surprised to discover that All Quiet on the Western Front was enjoyable. It presents a horrifying depiction of World War I from the point ofContinue reading “All Quiet on the Western Front”
Zoey's Year in Books 2020 