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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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January 6, 2010 – Shelved (Hardcover Edition)
May 17, 2010 – Shelved as: classics (Hardcover Edition)
June 17, 2010 – Shelved as: world-europe-russia (Hardcover Edition)
June 22, 2010 – Shelved as: translation (Hardcover Edition)
December 21, 2010 – Shelved as: russian-literature (Hardcover Edition)
August 10, 2011 – Started Reading (Other Paperback Edition)
August 10, 2011 – Shelved (Other Paperback Edition)
August 10, 2011 – Shelved as: russian-literature (Other Paperback Edition)
August 10, 2011 – Shelved as: world-europe-russia (Other Paperback Edition)
August 10, 2011 – Shelved as: translation (Other Paperback Edition)
August 10, 2011 – Shelved as: challenge-2011-fall (Other Paperback Edition)
August 10, 2011 – Shelved as: classics (Other Paperback Edition)
October 28, 2011 – Shelved as: bbc-book-list-to... (Hardcover Edition)
October 28, 2011 – Shelved as: bbc-book-list-to... (Other Paperback Edition)
November 16, 2011 – Shelved as: 6-star-books (Other Paperback Edition)
November 16, 2011 – Finished Reading (Other Paperback Edition)
December 16, 2011 – Shelved as: napoleon-bonaparte (Other Paperback Edition)
December 16, 2011 – Shelved as: napoleon-bonaparte (Hardcover Edition)
February 12, 2012 – Shelved as: rws-canon-bonus-... (Other Paperback Edition)
February 17, 2012 – Shelved as: classic-gr-9-thr... (Hardcover Edition)
February 17, 2012 – Shelved as: classic-gr-9-thr... (Other Paperback Edition)
August 15, 2012 – Shelved as: 1860-1869 (Hardcover Edition)
October 27, 2013 – Shelved as: re-read (Other Paperback Edition)
February 17, 2016 – Shelved as: rory-gilmore-rea... (Hardcover Edition)
February 17, 2016 – Shelved as: to-read (Hardcover Edition)
May 31, 2018 – Shelved as: berkley-summer-r... (Hardcover Edition)
February 16, 2019 – Shelved as: book-should-read... (Other Paperback Edition)
January 18, 2021 – Shelved as: rws-anti-war (Other Paperback Edition)
May 9, 2021 – Shelved
May 9, 2021 – Shelved as: russian-literature
May 9, 2021 – Shelved as: to-read
May 9, 2021 – Shelved as: 6-star-books
May 9, 2021 – Shelved as: rws-anti-war
May 9, 2021 – Shelved as: bbc-book-list-top-100
May 9, 2021 – Shelved as: book-should-read-once
May 9, 2021 – Shelved as: classic-gr-9-thru-12
May 9, 2021 – Shelved as: napoleon-bonaparte
May 9, 2021 – Shelved as: classics
May 9, 2021 – Shelved as: re-read
May 9, 2021 – Shelved as: rws-canon-bonus-points
May 9, 2021 – Shelved as: translation
May 9, 2021 – Shelved as: world-europe-russia
May 9, 2021 – Shelved as: 1860-1869
May 9, 2021 – Shelved as: berkley-summer-reading
May 9, 2021 – Shelved as: rory-gilmore-reading-challenge
May 18, 2021 – Shelved as: b-ed (Other Paperback Edition)
May 22, 2021 – Shelved as: b-rosemary-uk
May 31, 2021 – Started Reading
May 31, 2021 – Shelved as: buddy-read-with-tom
May 31, 2021 –
page 16
1.19% ""Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the society of clever women.""
June 1, 2021 –
page 40
2.96% ""And as he waved his arms to impersonate the policeman, his portly form again shook with a deep ringing laugh, the laugh of one who always eats well and, in particular, drinks well. 'So, do come and dine with us!' he said.""
June 2, 2021 –
page 59
4.37% ""'But why do you expect that he will leave us anything?'
'Ah my dear! He is so rich, and we are so poor!'""
June 5, 2021 –
page 92
6.81%
June 5, 2021 –
page 92
6.81% ""Of the behaviour of the eldest princess and Prince Vasili she spoke disapprovingly, but in whispers and as a great secret.""
June 5, 2021 –
page 107
7.93% ""'Well, you've told me nothing new,' and the old man repeated, meditatively and rapidly:
'Dieu sait quand reviendra. Go to the dining-room.""
June 6, 2021 –
page 118
8.74% "Prince Andrei Bolkonsky leaves for war. Pregnant wife Lise cries."
June 8, 2021 –
page 134
9.93% "Prince Andrei reacts to "Forty thousand men are massacred and the army of our allies destroyed" while fellow officers laugh and joke.
"He waited a moment to see whether the cornet would answer, but he turned and went out of the corridor.""
June 9, 2021 –
page 158
11.7% ""Pursued by the French army of a hundred thousand men under the command of Bonaparte......."
June 13, 2021 –
page 174
12.89%
June 13, 2021 –
page 174
12.89% "Prince Andrei thought: "I am going to save the army.""
June 19, 2021 –
page 193
14.3% "Prince Bagration: Officers who approached him with disturbed countenances became calm; soldier and officers greeted him gaily, grew more cheerful in his presence, and were evidently anxious to display their courage before him."
June 20, 2021 –
page 213
15.78% "End of Book One Part Two - "Next day the French did not renew their attack, and the remnant of Bagration's detachment was reunited to Kutuzov's army.""
July 13, 2021 –
page 252
18.67% ""...there were six thousand rubles for his outfit and varoius other things the old count sent to his son" (son = Nikolai Rostov)"
July 14, 2021 –
page 268
19.85% ""Next day the army began its campaign, and up to the very battle of Austerlitz Boris was unable to see either Prince Andrei or Dolgorukov again...""
July 23, 2021 –
page 286
21.19% "on the eve of battle, Napoleon to his troops: "and the peace I shall conclude will be worthy of my people, of you, and of myself""
July 28, 2021 –
page 323
23.93% ""Denisov to Rostov's surprise appeared in the drawing-room with pomaded hair, perfumed, and in a new uniform, looking just as smart as he made himself when going into battle, and he was more amiable to the ladies and gentlemen that Rostov had ever expected to see him.""
August 6, 2021 –
page 370
27.41% "Nikolai: "He filled the girls' albums with verses and music, and having at last sent Dolokhov the whole forty-three thousand rubles <>gambling debt<> and received his receipt he left at the end of November without taking leave of any of his acquaintances, to overtake his regiment which was already in Poland.""
August 21, 2021 –
page 403
29.85% "Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, looking at his infant son: "'Yes, this is the only thing left to me now,' he said with a sigh.""
September 6, 2021 –
page 426
31.56% ""'Ah, what a mad bweed you Wostovs are!' he muttered, and Rostov noticed tears in his eyes.""
September 7, 2021 –
page 446
33.04% "Nikolai Rostov: "'Our business is to do our duty, to fight and not to think! That's all....' // 'And to drink' // 'Hey you! Another bottle!' he shouted.""
September 17, 2021 –
page 466
34.52% ""Again Pierre was overtaken by the depression he so dreaded.""
September 26, 2021 –
page 498
36.89% ""...he (Andrei) felt astonished that he could have spent so much time on such useless work. Next day Prince Andrei called at a few houses he had not visited before, and month them at the Rostovs' with whom he had renewed acquaintance at the ball.""
January 6, 2022 – Shelved as: books-to-read-sn... (Other Paperback Edition)
March 13, 2022 –
page 521
38.59%
April 4, 2022 –
page 538
39.85%
April 8, 2022 –
page 550
40.74%
July 11, 2022 –
page 577
42.74%
August 27, 2022 – Shelved as: challenge-2022-fall
September 25, 2022 –
page 615
45.56%
September 28, 2022 –
page 646
47.85%
October 15, 2022 –
page 686
50.81%
October 16, 2022 –
page 699
51.78%
August 31, 2023 – Shelved as: rws-reading-1001
October 1, 2023 – Shelved as: 0t-war
February 25, 2024 –
page 711
52.67%
February 25, 2024 –
page 711
52.67%
February 26, 2024 –
page 731
54.15%
March 2, 2024 –
page 763
56.52%
March 3, 2024 –
page 799
59.19%
March 10, 2024 –
page 824
61.04%
March 11, 2024 –
page 851
63.04%
March 12, 2024 –
page 880
65.19%

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