Amy Gary’s Reviews > War and Peace > Status Update

“The Rostovs' son-in-law, Berg, was by now a colonel, with the orders of Vladimir and Anne on his neck, and was still filling the same comfortable and agreeable post of assistant to the head of the staff of the assistant of the chief officer of the staff of the commander of the left flank of the infantry of the first army.”
Lol

I feel comfortable skipping these hunting chapters altogether. Though I do appreciate that Tolstoy himself did eventually give up hunting and became a vegetarian.

“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the society of clever women."

Slow reading for all of 2026, one chapter a day