The Big Read 2021: War and Peace
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As Tolstoy has done with introducing most parts of the novel, we read seven fairly short chapters this week in which the author seemed to simply and di…
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Week 40 Discussion ThreadPost all your thoughts, reactions, questions, hot takes, and more from Week 40 of our War and Peace reading. This week we’re reading Chapters 1-…
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This week we finished up Part I of Volume IV, which reached a rather consequential conclusion. In the first few chapters, Pierre finds himself a prison…
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Week 39 Discussion ThreadPost all your thoughts, reactions, questions, hot takes, and more from Week 39 of our War and Peace reading. This week we’re reading Chapters 10…
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Our reading of Volume IV opens in St. Petersburg, hundreds of miles from Moscow and fully separated from the burning and pillaging happening there. We’…
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We are now at about 75% through Tolstoy’s epic novel, first published in English in 1886, almost two decades after its original publication. Interestin…
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Week 37 Discussion ThreadThis week we’ll dive into the final chapters, 30-34, of Volume III. My recap next week will likely just cover those chapters, but if you’re read…
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This week we encountered a few of the longer chapters of the book, largely dealing with the French army’s occupation of Moscow. Whereas last week’s rea…
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Week 36 Discussion ThreadPost all your thoughts, reactions, questions, hot takes, and more from Week 36 of our War and Peace reading. This week we’re reading Chapters 23…
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Happy holiday weekend! I heard from a few of you—and I agree—that this week’s reading was a bit boring. I didn’t highlight much this week myself, other…
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Week 35 Discussion ThreadPost all your thoughts, reactions, questions, hot takes, and more from Week 35 of our War and Peace reading. This week we’re reading Chapters 16…
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Let’s start with a quote from Jay Winik’s April 1865, which I’ve been reading and enjoying over the last week: “War, for victors and losers alike, is i…
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