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Week 32 Recap: "Fortune is a liberal mistress"
To get the scope of what really happened at Borodino and the context of Napoleon’s moral defeat, I was happy to spend some time in Andrew Roberts…
Jeremy Anderberg
Aug 13
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Week 31 Recap: "The Game Had Begun"
The Battle of Borodino, which took place on September 7, 1812, was the single bloodiest day of fighting in the entirety of the Napoleonic Wars. With…
Jeremy Anderberg
Aug 6
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Week 30 Recap: On the Eve of Borodino
All week Tolstoy has been building up to the Battle of Borodino — one of the major events of the 1812 campaign and a defining event in the novel. Pierre…
Jeremy Anderberg
Jul 30
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Week 29 Recap: 1812 and 1860
This week’s reading gave us a little bit of everything: some brewing romance between Rostov and Marya, some of Pierre’s search for meaning, some wartime…
Jeremy Anderberg
Jul 23
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Week 28 Recap: What Death Does to Us
The climax of this week’s reading was the death of old Prince Bolkonsky and Marya’s reaction to that death. In the midst of an encroaching enemy and a…
Jeremy Anderberg
Jul 16
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Week 27 Recap: Alpatych and Smolensk
What most interested me in this week’s readings were Chapters 4 and 5. They were some of the longest chapters we’ve encountered thus far, which says…
Jeremy Anderberg
Jul 9
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Week 26 Recap: Midsummer
I love that this week of reading is actually set in early July. It’s just perfect. Throughout the book, Tolstoy’s descriptions of the seasons have been…
Jeremy Anderberg
Jul 2
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Week 25 Recap: Halfway!
This week we hit a big milestone: we’re halfway through! Congrats on having made it this far if you’ve stayed caught up. If you haven’t, there’s plenty…
Jeremy Anderberg
Jun 25
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Week 24 Recap: Napoleon
Here in our first week of Volume III, Tolstoy gave us an inside look at his feelings about history, “great men,” and Napoleon specifically. There will…
Jeremy Anderberg
Jun 18
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A Sneak Peek at 2023!
Hello everyone! For paid subscribers, I have to give a huge thanks for the support this year! It’s been incredible to see and I can’t say how thankful I…
Jeremy Anderberg
Jun 15
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Week 23 Recap: The Great Comet
When I think about the first time I read War and Peace, almost exactly two years ago, these handful of chapters were among the most memorable of the…
Jeremy Anderberg
Jun 11
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Week 22 Recap: Natasha
Natasha was back front and center in this week’s reading. Though she’s been in and out of the storyline, she last stole the show back in week 17 during…
Jeremy Anderberg
Jun 4
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