Quote from Tolstoy on Ultimate Purpose
A bee settling on a flower has stung a child. And the child is afraid of bees and declares that bees exist to sting people. A poet admires the bee […]
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What’s the best book you’ve read this year?
Novels – I spent a lot of the year reading Les Miserables, Victor Hugo’s long, in-depth epic set in the days of revolutionary France. His description of how the French […]
So Much For That, Lionel Schriver
The most recent novel in our book club is from Lionel Schriver, the bestselling author of We Need to Talk about Kevin. I haven’t read that one, and after So […]
Notes on Death: The Death of Ivan Ilyich
This short story is usually published alongside other short stories of Tolstoy’s that deal with issues of marriage, happiness, life and death. At about 70 pages (roughly the same length […]
My Recommended Novels of 2010
It’s that time again were we often review what has gone on over the previous year. Here are some books I enjoyed reading. This year I have read a lot […]
War and Peace
Having finished Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace about a week ago, here are some thoughts. I think it is almost impossible to fully review a book this big, but here […]
Too much choice?
I’m currently reading War and Peace by Tolstoy. A good read – once you get over the first couple of hundred paged you can really get into it. The main […]
Marriage and self-giving (Anna Karenina)
I finished reading Anna Karenina a week or so ago. It is a big classic Russian novel (translated into English) written by Leo Tolstoy in the late 19th century – […]
