I’m going to do it. I’m going to read War and Peace this year. All of it, all 1224 pages.
Wish me luck!
January 21, 2013 by Floating Lush
I’m going to do it. I’m going to read War and Peace this year. All of it, all 1224 pages.
Wish me luck!
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
--Cicero
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
--Christopher Morley
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
--Erasmus
A good book has no ending.
--R.D. Cumming
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
--William Hazlitt
You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
--Paul Sweeney
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
--W. Somerset Maugham
This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.
--Logan Pearsall Smith
I cannot live without books.
--Thomas Jefferson
Dreams, books, each are a world.
--William Wordsworth
To have a second language is to possess a second soul.
--Charlemange
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Bluuuuuurrrrrrrrgggggghhhh. I mean, I got through The Stand. But that was The Stand.
Good luck?
In terms of “big fat famous novels I feel I really ought to read before I die,” it was either this or Don Quixote. But I’ll save him for 2014–I wouldn’t want to go overboard and do everything at once!
very prudent call!
Don Quixote is actually a good novel. Best of luck and waiting for your review of this tome.
I’m going to read Don Q because of Going Bovine. Yes, I am a giant nerd.