The Big Read: War and Peace

Welcome to The Big Read 2022! Reading and discussing the book this year, one chapter per day, has been eye-opening, intellectually stimulating, and immensely rewarding—and I’m really looking forward to another year of it. Before we kick off in 2022, I’ll be sending five free…
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Last week was one of those War and Peace weeks where the plot doesn’t move forward much, but Tolstoy blows us away with the beauty and quality of his…
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We’ve been in Part III of Volume II for almost a month — 26 chapters! In many ways, this chunk of text has seen a lot of characters grow up, for better…
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Though we’ve encountered Natasha here and there throughout the book, she hasn’t yet played a starring role. Until this last week. The big event, of…
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Throughout chapters 6-12, we saw bits and pieces of most of the main characters and what they were up to. Over the course of a couple years everyone has…
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This week we read the end of Volume II, Part II and started on Part III. At the end of Part II, Rostov is finding the same disillusionment with Napoleon…
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Though the plot didn’t move forward a whole lot this week — that’s bound to happen over the course of 1,200+ pages! — there were still a number of…
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This week, for me, the most enjoyable bits of reading centered on Pierre and Andrey as they philosophized about the meaning of life. But first, in…
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The Big Read: War and Peace

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