So, I haven’t been updating much lately. This is because a lot of my updates are about books I read, and lately, I’ve been trying to get through War and Peace. I’ll be honest, it’s a great long book, and not an easy read. So far I’ve read over half of it. Frankly, I find all the parts about the social and romantic lives of the characters quite amusing. Reading those sections of the book is a delight. To my own surprise, I found myself rather invested in the love lives of a variety of character, many of whom I don’t like, respect, or admire. However, I have some difficulty getting through the military sections. Quite frankly, I simply don’t know enough to be able to appreciate pages of military strategies and maneuvers, which makes reading certain parts of this book quite a bore.
So far, I rather like Princess Mary and Prince Andrew; I think they’re my favorite characters. Natasha, while an understandable and sympathetic character, is often rather vain or foolish. I don’t know why or how, but somehow Tolstoy’s made me kind of like Nikolai Rostov, despite the fact that I very much disapprove of him and his decisions. He’s frivolous, and ought to have married Sonya ages ago. Not to mention his stupidity in the card game with Dolokhov. I lose patience with him a fair bit. I like Sonya, she’s a good person, but she doesn’t seem to have much common sense. She really ought to have married Dolokhov when he asked her. Her principles don’t really seem to do her much good. Then again, a lack of principles only seems to get some of the other characters into trouble. We’ll see what the rest of the book is like.
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