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This is so tense.
And the way each person has only a few pages of backstory, but it's enough to understand their motives - brilliant

One minute he is unaliving a person, gruesomely.
Next, he is calling his teacher cute.
Sir, you are a psychopath

Not Andrei! 😭

If you're ever going through a quarter life crisis, this one is for you

Oh Andrei 😔

"Because gently now, though her eyes were dry, her heart was soaked; she'd now escaped the voracity of living"

"A human beings most pressing need was to become a human being"

"For we were only made for the little silence, not for the silence of the stars"

Lispector as meta as always, but I do love it

Tolstoy could you please bring some joy into Princess Marya's life!

Natasha ~ her drama reminds me so much of Lydia Bennet.
Pierre ~ my favourite character

Andrei and Natasha? Not a fan

Tolstoy is really testing Rostov

my favourite chapter so far! Andrei and Pierre debating their philosophies and morality

Pierre, I think you're about to join a cult

Andrei: "I would give up my family for glory" 🫡
Rostov: "I hope the emperor notices me"🤭
Pierre: "I'm engaged?"😱

"He felt sad and depressed. It was all so strange, so unlike what he had hoped"

"There is no one to help me or pity me. Yet I was once at home, strong, happy, and loved."

"And why did I come here?"
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part two begins with jovial young men, keen and eager to go and fight in war. It ends with them disillusioned, fearful, and longing for peace.

Oh Andrei how arrogant you are

Andrei "what is the point in all of this?"
Pierre "who am I? Where do I belong?"
Lize "why does my husband not like me?"
Everyone else: "when will Bezukhov perish, so we can inherit his money?"

Andrei and Pierre already have me locked in. Their kinship already fascinates me - harmonious opposites

Reading one arc a month of WTTNL.
Arc 1 complete.

It's gory, kind of horrifying at times, but also funny. Wen Jianyan is a deceptive scam-artist, but a funny one, and smart too.

I am disoriented, but I think that's the point

Not the Count asking not to be involved in the drama, when he is behind all the drama lmao

The drama!

Premise and concept: interesting, unique, chilling
Delivery: it can be a bit slow or dare I say, boring, at times

I am so locked in !

This is getting so good! All I want to do is read it

So this is now my favourite Tartt novel. The Secret History has been demoted

The suspense!! This could become a favourite

I think I am hate reading at this point.
The ML is so cringe