Elaine’s Reviews > War and Peace > Status Update

Over half way! This is syncing up quite well with Age of Revolution.

The hunt scene was spectacular! I hope it’s in the miniseries, but I doubt it could be filmed well.

So strange to read War & Peace and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich at the same time. Well, for a short time. One Day took two weeks to read; W&P will take most of the year.

I’m beginning to gain momentum and might want to pick up the pace but slow and steady generally pays off with long novels.

Lewis believed that War and Peace was the best war novel ever written. He mentioned it several times in his essays. I’m waiting for the scene he describes in The Inner Ring.

Book one, part one completed. I think I’m keeping the characters straight, but goodness there are a lot of them!

I had to share the carrot ice cream joke with my daughter who hates carrots. Marya Dmitrievna is my kind of old lady!

War and Peace is loaded on my kindle and ready to go as soon as the AO forum discussion gets started.