Checked two versions of ‘Don Quixote’ out of the library today because I want to try both and then stick with the version I like best (which in this case might be the funnier one). It started with Tolstoy, increased with Proust, now I’m a translation nerd/snob. #tolstoytogether #prousttogether

Yes, that's been a feature since #TolstoyTogether during the pandemic.

Hi Kirtan. Saw your article in the Guardian. Really liked it. I retweeted it here to the #Tolstoytogether crowd. Then @miss-mainwaring.bsky.social asked if you were on here so I looked for you - glad to have found you again.

When do you know when it’s time to stop cancer treatment? She knew – her final act of control My patient Betsy Lewis has found the balance in which we neither welcome death nor push it away – and still celebrates her life while she can

Hey, this is an article by Kirtan Nautiyal, do any of you remember him from #Tolstoytogether ? #anthonypowelltogether www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

“The Particles of Order,” by Yiyun Li If a person’s imagination, kind or wicked, was boundless, sooner or later what was imagined could become a fact.

my fellow slow-readers, take a break from #anthonypowelltogether and read yiyun's wonderful story in one sitting! #tolstoytogether #prousttogether #knausgaardtogether
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Currently watching the episode where Chris in the Morning does his annual radio reading of War and Peace #TolstoyTogether

Perhaps when we say we live in history, it means we lived in shared disbeliefs rather than individual ones.

- Yiyun Li from #tolstoytogether

Where #TolstoyTogether meets my winter break pastime of watching home tours on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7QcPIJZ3Cc

“My understanding is a lot of bad things happen on Twitter,” says Yiyun Li, But nothing bad happens in #TolstoyTogether

For months, when my husband got home from work every day, I’d be reading War and Peace with the dogs sleeping by my side. Today when he walked in I was reading something new. #TolstoyTogether

First day of the rest of my post- #TolstoyTogether life. What am I going to read now?

The #TolstoyTogether epilogue reminds me a little of Walker Percy, his discussion of how philosophers’ theories don’t account for the lives of the philosophers themselves. Also it’s the last day and I’m sad.

“Still less will the history of writers and reformers explain the life of the people to us.” Tough but fair. #TolstoyTogether

A friend expressed surprise to hear I wasn't in a book club (#TolstoyTogether notwithstanding). I replied without thinking, "my life is a book club." And then sat quietly as the truth of that statement settled upon me.

"The stars, as if knowing that no one could see them now, frolicked in the black sky. Now flaring up, now going out, now quivering, they busily whispered among themselves about something joyful but mysterious."

Narrators don't talk like this much anymore. #TolstoyTogether

Moderna x3 today, emotional remembering when we didn’t have this option or even know how COVID spread, whether we needed to wipe down our groceries or sequester the mail for 24 hours or what. Thank you science, @DollyParton, & #TolstoyTogether for helping us get through this.

“As if celebrating a victory over everyone, a cricket chirped in a crack.” Funny little sentence. The fresh air of the unexpected. #TolstoyTogether (would love to see other translations of this line)

I’m behind, but Tolstoy’s repeated discussion of how beautiful the weather was in the week before the fall of Moscow reminds me of accounts of the lovely morning that preceded 9/11 #TolstoyTogether

Loved the editorializing on how history is conceived and written in today’s pages, and the detailed takedown of Napoleon’s strategy. “Thus, none of the instructions of the disposition were or could be carried out.” #TolstoyTogether

Catching up w/#TolstoyTogether & Prince Andrei seems to have something in common w/Twitter folk:

“Pierre now recognized in his friend the all too familiar need to worry and argue about things extraneous to him, only in order to stifle his all too painful innermost thoughts.”

In yesterday’s reading, a French exit in the wild. #TolstoyTogether

A couple days late on this but I’m loving Tolstoy’s constant, unexpected shifts in POV, here he attributes imagined lines of dialogue to an *atmosphere.* #TolstoyTogether

Turns out there was a #TolstoyTogether angle to this interview. Asked who his favorite storyteller was, McMurtry said, "Tolstoy is the greatest prose fiction writer ever. Anna Karenina and War and Peace are kind of all you need. Everything’s there.”

This is her copy of War and Peace. #TolstoyTogether

Yiyun Li talking about the virtue of slowness with @amitavakumar. What a great conversation. #TolstoyTogether

Have I just missed it or is today’s reading the first place the narrator has liberally used “our” and “ours” in reference to the Russian army? Is this in the POV of one of the characters? #TolstoyTogether

.@APublicSpace fell behind this week in #TolstoyTogether but am rather excited to be able to read a larger chunk on a quiet Saturday; wonderful to think about how we are all readers of these same pages.

Yiyun Li on the opening of War and Peace: “The characters, some essential ingredients, some garnishes, are all participating in the party alike, yet each is calculating, troubled, and unhappy in his or her own way." — a bit like Twitter, no? #TolstoyTogether @APublicSpace

Really liked something Brigid Hughes said this evening - each reading becomes embedded in one's memory.

Thinking back on reading W&P as a 21 year old and on re-reading it spring 2020 - 恍如隔世 - as if a distance of a lifetime. Much like March 2020, and now. #TolstoyTogether

My copy of #TolstoyTogether arrived just in time for tonight’s conversation @greenlightbklyn - thank you @APublicSpace for including me alongside fellow readers 💚

www.greenlightbookstore.com/event/yiyun-li-alexandra...