scarr’s Reviews > Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li > Status Update

"Books that I feel drawn to and reread, War and Peace among them, are full of uncommon sense and common nonsense. (Uncommon nonsense makes exhilarating literature, to, in Lewis Carroll's case, but uncommon nonsense does better to stay uncommon: in less skillful hands, it becomes caprice or parody.)"