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War and Peace, I surrender!

Saturday, July 31st, 2010

I mentioned before that I was reading War and Peace. Since I haven’t been able to form a coherent and complete thought for my blog this month, I will just blather about that book here. In the beginning I got lost with all the characters being introduced. The first time I tried reading, I quite [...]

not dusting off just yet

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

Wow, I haven’t given much thought to my blog this month. As evidenced by the fact that I am writing an entry in the last hour of the entire calendar month! (I set myself a rule to update at least once a month, but that’s another story.) I’ve had ideas of stuff to write about, [...]

very slowly reading

Thursday, February 7th, 2002

What does mon dieu mean? *is too lazy to look it up* My something … That princess lady, the one married to the Bolonsky guy … Lisa? She’s said it twice so far. I’ve read 17 pages of War and Peace! I’m so proud of me! After I finish this (and I do plan to [...]

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