Life at both ends

War and Peace Week 2: Book 1 Part 1 Chapters 8 – 14

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Welcome to Week 2 of War and Peace 2024

Last week, I polled readers to see how many are joining us for War and Peace, a chapter a day, in 2024. There are currently over 1,600 people taking part, with subscribers from 100 countries. Thank you for taking up the challenge, and I hope you enjoy both the book and the community this is coming together around this reading experience.

Everything you need on this journey will appear on the main War and Peace page of Footnotes and Tangents. There is a reading schedule that links through to daily chat threads for each chapter. And there is a list of weekly updates.

And there are also plot summaries for each character to help you keep track of the hundreds of characters in this book. This is a unique resource created by me for this read-along so I hope you find it useful.

Following your feedback, I have decided to put out these weekly updates on Sundays. You can find the full list of weekly posts here.