Circumstances conspired to point us towards Tolstoy today, again. Giulia's editor read an excellent translation of Anna Karenina in 2001 & finally understood the greatness of Tolstoy, even in English. Now, a pile-up of Tolstoy blogs, reading groups, & even a tweeter! Visit C.M. Mayo's appropriately-titled Reading Tolstoy's War & Peace. She's our go-to link-a-lot & she always says the most interesting things.
We don't own the translation of War & Peace we want to read, so here's hoping the library does. And that the renewal policy is generous. 365 chapters is no small project. Eep.
ciao-meow/GG Book Club Central
(Woman Reading by Alexander Deineka)
It is a dark & stormy evening here in the nation's capital. We will be delayed in posting tomorrow but leave you with Russian artist and photographer Irina Istratova who is having a lot of fun with her camera & Photoshop lately. See more photographs, here.
For 32 of the most famous Russian fairy tales (in English), click here.Giulia is still asleep - OK, she did get up for snacks & dinner but now she's asleep again. We hope you are not floating away wherever you are.
We refuse to enter the blog-o-fray between liberals vs. conservatives, to name just two warring groups. Let's just agree that he was one of the greatest of writers & his courage & integrity--artistically & personally--cannot be questioned. GG, postings on fashion herein notwithstanding, objects to the materialist nature, not just of the West but also to those in the developing world who rob their own people. On this, GG & her editor are in agreement with A.S.
