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My Top 10 for 2024!
Top reads were War and Peace and Demon Copperhead. After that in no particular order were some favourite authors …John Boyne, Charlotte Wood and Robbie Arnott…some new to me authors and books…Slow Horses, James and Tokyo Express and another wonderful Tolstoy Ivan Ilych, and Richard Osmans latest crime thriller! All so good…❤️📚

Guys… Guys… I did it! The hardest thing about this review is how much was in it. It was about war times, the lives they left behind, a bit of PTSD, and the aftermath. It was about life and death. It was about choices that were made and wondering if it was the right one. It was a lot. Will I read it again? No, but I‘m glad I know what it was about now. 🥰

Having a pre Thanksgiving walk with a classic. 🥰💛

Trying to audio crochet 🧶 #LitsyCrafters but realized why I haven‘t been able to. 🤣 Juvenile Cats… 🙀😹🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

I would say that‘s a huge accomplishment! Halfway through War and Peace heck yeah! 😍

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Open to all who signed up using the form in #AllDeBook's original post. 🤗

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Why books are important in wartime; excellent article and comments. Link: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/oct/06/hope-matters-ukrainian-and-interna...

Although I have the physical copy I‘ve decided this will be easier for me as an audiobook. I intend to listen to a couple of chapters a day or maybe more depending on how I like it

Reading Envy Podcast Episode 245: Looking Back at the Russian Novel

At the end of March, a handful of us gathered to discuss what we had read for the Russian novel quarter of Reading Envy Russia. We also discuss the works we abandoned, some dips into Ukrainian literature, and talked more about what makes a novel quintessentially Russian.

Listen and subscribe!
https://tinyurl.com/ReadingEnvy245

Today no books....today silence 😔

#book #nowar #nowarinukraine #readingchallenge2022 #litsy #litsybook #goodreads #bookly #booklover #bookshelf #bookworm #toread #leggere #libro

I started my first few Serial Readers today. These are two #Chunksters that I want to read this year. I want to say Uncle Toms Cabin should be longer? No?

I finished and on time with #tolstoytogether! I learned I know very little about the Napoleonic Wars and should read up on them. I‘m proud I finished this and can now casually mention to people I‘ve actually read it, will I read it again?? Not anytime soon.

Well, prince, Genoa and Lucca are now nothing more than estates taken over by the Bonaparte family.
#mbcreadathon
#mbcbookfrogsreadathon2

A little more drawn out then was necessary. Anna Karenina was more compact and definitely preferred over War & Peace. That being said, this is definitely a masterpiece and should be required reading. The second epilogue was repetitive. The point of free will vs the laws of nature could have been summed up in one chapter. 12 chapters was a little excessive to make this point. Much of the novel had many examples of excess indulgences throughout.

I want to read

So I have one of those ‘100 books to read‘ scratch off posters. I‘d like to complete it, however, some of the books on it are books I always said I‘d never read as they‘re too long, seem too difficult or I‘ve just had no interest
The 3 I‘m most scared of are War and peace, Middlemarch and Ulysses
Should I try to read them or give up on finishing the poster? 🤔

#QuotsyFeb21 Day 23: #Hurry

I‘m doing the read along with apublicspace.org and loving this classic. My Russian novel for the year was going to be Brothers Karamazov but I switched it up. Loving the sweeping story and cast of characters!

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#peace

Oh dear. I‘ve been so good about using the library and not buying books but I went off the wagon today. My justifications? Well @catiewithac posted about the online long read of War and Peace so I got it to go from our local library. And then I felt compelled to buy other books I‘m on the list for at the library and sheesh, civilization could crash before those holds come in. And I‘m not buying cocktails out. Bad, bad!

The tagged book is a great example of #antonymsinthetitle, but I‘m pretty sure I‘ll never read it! I have read the other three, though!
#auldlangreads

You know, I was anti-ereader until I had a baby. Because you can't nurse and hold a book, but you CAN nurse and hold an ereader. 👍

Ok, I‘m doing it!

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