Week 1: Reading War and Peace for the First Time

I'm finally reading this big classic! In my first week, my goal is to complete Volume 1.
This week in War and Peace…
We’re introduced to our principal characters, some leave for the war against France and Napoleon, while others stare down death and suffering of a more familial kind.
A book on many readers’ bucket lists, this hefty Russian novel by Leo Tolstoy clocks in at a whopping 1,200+ pages.
Last summer I read Tolstoy’s other famous novel, Anna Karenina.
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[@covergirlbooks]

📕Is there a big classic you’re reading this summer? How’s it going?

[@laurencutrone4057]

Your edition is so pretty! I'm in the middle of a reread so I'm looking forward to your videos to hear your thoughts and to hold me accountable!

[@covergirlbooks]

Thank you! The publisher is Vintage, and they make some very pretty but easy to handle classics ☺️ Any characters or subjects that you’re noticing in particular on your second time round? And did you annotate your copy the first time you read it?

[@janepetrie1654]

War and Peace is on my TBR to read this year. I have the same edition as you as well as another penguin classic ed, I think it's the same translators. Love your drawing btw.

[@covergirlbooks]

The translators are my fave - made Anna Karenina fearless for me!

[@Rayliotta7631]

You look just like the girl from Licorice Pizza

[@covergirlbooks]

Alana Haim? Thanks 📼