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• Natasha, Imelda and the Great Immersion of 2013

  
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  The waiters were serving borscht and blinis while we sat at our tables in the faux-Russian supper club, waiting for the show to start the other night. A sociable young women in 19th-century period dress stopped by to welcome us and asked if we had everything we needed. As long as you asked, I said, my friend here ...
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• What to read? (Part 9) Reading Together

  
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  Reading is usually seen as a silent, solitary activity, but it doesn’t have to be. Whether you’re reading aloud with a child or a friend, having a spirited discussion in a book club setting, or joining in with a “One Book, One City” program or a World Book Night event, reading together is a unique [...] The ...
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• The ABCD’s of Parenting – Part 4

  
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• Movie Review: Anna Karenina (2012)

  
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  The English director Joe Wright has often treated dramatizing his material as a secondary concern. He has generally seemed more interested in using the script as a springboard for his directorial virtuosity. He has never before taken this to the extravagant lengths he does in Anna Karenina, and this time it leaves one ...
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• Thoughts on: War & Peace: Book 4 Part 3

  
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  About: War and Peace by Leo Tol­stoy is a fic­tional book first pub­lished in 1869. The work is regarded as one of the most impor­tant works of world lit­er­a­ture . The copy I read was trans­lated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. 1350 pages Pub­lisher: Oxford Uni­ver­sity Press, USA; New edition ...
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• Giveaway winners!

  
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  The winners have been chosen … and contacted. 1. Stacy Would love to visit: The Golden Compass/Northern Lights by Phillip Pullman For one, I’ve always wanted to live in England and I adore fantasy so living in an parallel England where there were witches, talking animals, and where everyone has a daemon ...
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• A Garden of Inspiration – A Story of Leo Tolstoy

  
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  Leo Tolstoy via wikimedia A young boy once lived in a house in a forest. He and his brothers played in the woods, ponds and fields that surrounded their home. One day an older brother told the child about a green stick that was buried near a ravine in the deepest part of the forest.  If you find the stick,  the ...
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• You Cant Defend a Poem

  
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  There is no argument by which one can defend a poem. It defends itself by surviving, or it is indefensible. –George Orwell, "Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool," in George Orwell: In Front of Your Nose, 1946-1950 , 302 . This is an often-quoted statement by Orwell. He says this in his discussion of Leo Tolstoys ...
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• Alexander Nazaryan: Blood and Tragedy -- The Caucasus in the Literary Imagination

  
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  Alexander Nazaryan is on the editorial board of the New York Daily News, where he edits the Page Views book blog. At the beginning of “The Cossacks,” Leo Tolstoy’s early novel about imperial Russia’s military campaign in the Caucasus, the protagonist Olenin muses about the battles to come: “All his dreams ...
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• Leo Tolstoy inspirational quote about change

  
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