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Week 19 Recap: The Hunt
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…
Jeremy Anderberg
May 14
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Week 18 Recap: Summing Up Volume II, Part III
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…
Jeremy Anderberg
May 7
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Week 18 Recap: Summing Up Volume II, Part III
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Week 17 Recap: Natasha and the Possibility of Happiness
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…
Jeremy Anderberg
Apr 30
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Week 16 Recap: The Mechanical Management of Life
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…
Jeremy Anderberg
Apr 23
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Week 15 Recap: Disillusionment
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…
Jeremy Anderberg
Apr 16
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Week 14 Recap: Wartime Hospitals
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…
Jeremy Anderberg
Apr 9
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Week 13 Recap: Pierre and Andrey Philosophize
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…
Jeremy Anderberg
Apr 2
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Week 12 Recap: Pierre's Conversion
This week we wrapped up Part I of Volume II with Rostov confessing his debt and elder Rostov paying it off for him without too much of a fight. We then…
Jeremy Anderberg
Mar 26
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Week 11 Recap: Death and Poker
This week saw a couple interesting plot twists, another soiree, and a poker game that ended in near-ruin for one of our main characters. Let’s jump…
Jeremy Anderberg
Mar 19
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Week 10 Recap: A Duel!
The big story in this week’s reading, of course, was the duel. But we can’t miss the importance of the opening few chapters of Volume II either. Let’s…
Jeremy Anderberg
Mar 12
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Week 9 Recap: The End of Volume One
As the Russia-Ukraine war enters its second week of fighting, the relevance of this 155-year-old novel grows and grows, doesn’t it? I’ve heard from a…
Jeremy Anderberg
Mar 5
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Week 8 Recap: War and Peace Intermingle + the Romanovs
This recap was written well before Vladimir Putin, “President” of Russia, unilaterally decided to attack a friendly nation. Putin’s imperialistic…
Jeremy Anderberg
Feb 26
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