sábado, 29 de diciembre de 2012  War and Peace  War and Peace
[Voina i mir] (Vintage Classics, 2007) by Leo Tolstoy
[translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa
Volokhonsky] Russia, 1869  Thinking she was sure to turn my
wiseacre 1,215 page proposal down, I challenged Nicole from
bibliographing to read War and Peace with me as part of her 2011
bibliographing Reading Challenge in which followers of her blog
were encouraged to participate in a personalized one-book,
pre-1939 shared read with her.  Unfortunately for the good sport
Nicole, she took me up on the dare and pretty much hated the
work.  Unfortunately for the spoilsport me, starting and then
finishing the work over a full year after my challenge partner
did still left me little time to say anything much about it
until I return to Caravana de recuerdos headquarters sometime
next week.  What follows will have to suffice as an inadequate
intro for now. Whatever its apparent flaws (an annoying opening
party sequence, its occasional bloated ma