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Tag Archives: War and Peace
Book Questionnaire Full of Shame, Loathing and Lying
I can’t remember where I initially found this questionnaire, but in re-doing my Categories I found the questions saved in Drafts. I had obviously seen them somewhere, and wanted to answer them eventually. Thought I’d bring it out now. Haven’t … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged A Tale of Two Cities, Billy Budd, By the Lake, Charles Dickens, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Hopeful Monsters, John McGahern, Paul Zindel, Philip K. Dick, Richard Bach, Ryszard Kapuściński, The Bridge Across Forever, The End of the Affair, The Great Gatsby, The Pigman, The Shipping News, War and Peace
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Interview with Rebecca West
In 1981, Rebecca West was interviewed by The Paris Review, and it’s included in the first volume of the Paris Review interviews. She was an old woman by that point, 90 years old, living in London. Cataracts had ruined her … Continue reading
Posted in writers
Tagged Austria, George Bernard Shaw, Rebecca West, Tom Stoppard, Vanessa Redgrave, W.B. Yeats, war, War and Peace, Yugoslavia
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Book Meme: Pick One
Hard to pick one answer for each. Got this from Ted. One book youâre currently reading: I am only reading one. I cannot read fiction right now. I can barely read, if you want to know the truth, but I … Continue reading
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Tagged Charlotte Bronte, Crime and Punishment, Evelyn Waugh, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Geek Love, Harriet the Spy, Helter Skelter, Jane Eyre, Katherine Dunn, Leo Tolstoy, Louise Fitzhugh, Mating, Norman Rush, Nureyev, Scoop, Shakespeare, Villette, Vincent Bugliosi, War and Peace
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Middlemarch and Tolstoy
Ted is reading Middlemarch and I have so been loving his thoughts on the book. One of the main responses I had to the book was that it actually excited me. It was an exhilarating read. Omniscient and personal, at … Continue reading
White Russian Nights
So my reading of War and Peace continues … and, in a fortuitous moment, I came across this extraordinary post with photos of the “white nights” in St. Petersburg. Wow!!
Tolstoy Zingers
One of the things I love best about War and Peace is how action-packed it is … and yet how, suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, we get these psychological ZINGERS thrown at us – which have such the ring of … Continue reading
Snapshots
— Still making my way thru War and Peace, a couple chapters a day. Still only on page 540 … but it’s riveting. It’s not a boring read and even the long sections about the freemasons end up adding to … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged Andrei Rublev, Dean Martin, Hope, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Shirley MacLaine, snapshots, The Seagull, Vincente Minnelli, War and Peace
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War and Peace: An Entire Society In One Paragraph
Part Four: Chapter III On the 3rd of March all the rooms of the English Club were full of the hum of voices, and the members and guests of the club, in uniforms and frock-coats, some even in powder and … Continue reading
Family: What We All Are Reading
Bren: re-reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel Jean: reading The End of the Affair, and also Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli Dad: reading The Far Side of the World (he finished Treason’s Harbour) Siobhan: … Continue reading
Books You’ve Been … Questionnaire
I got this from the wonderful Stefanie. Books you’ve been planning to read for ages War and Peace (Vintage Classics) Les Miserables (Signet Classics) a biography of Queen Elizabeth (you know, as in the Virgin Queen). I don’t care which … Continue reading
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Tagged A Tale of Two Cities, Max Shulman, Summer Sleigh Ride, Thomas Carlyle, War and Peace
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