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Hope everyone's post-holiday parcels arrive well.:tup:
Everything I receive from NZ shows up in a crushed/chewed box.
Everything.
Happily, items inside are not damaged.
It's a funny ol' world.

As long as a bit of mangling & delay fills delivery company's tummy,
parcels generally are belched-up without much other issue.:giggle:
 
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millivanilli said:
Thank you dear ElainePG! I'll give it a try. On Amazon the reviews were good but, too.
Ok, here comes a secret: I never read war and peace. I simply couldn't imagine reading a novel about 250 people in my younger years. Perhaps I should give it a try now?
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I just finished it last night. I'll admit that I skimmed some of the details of the battles, and also it helped that DH was reading it at the same time, so we could talk about it. It was almost as though we were back in graduate school! (That's where we met.)
If you do decide to read it, I'd say do it as an ebook. At 1400 pages, it's VERY heavy to hold! I read it on my iPad, and it helped a lot.
Also, although there are probably 250 people in the book, there are really only twenty who are important to moving the plot along. And they are all listed in the beginning of the book, in a "cheat sheet," which I bookmarked and referred to for a while until I remembered who they all were. Then after a hundred pages, they all became like family to me!
 
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ElainePG said:
I just finished it last night. I'll admit that I skimmed some of the details of the battles, and also it helped that DH was reading it at the same time, so we could talk about it. It was almost as though we were back in graduate school! (That's where we met.)
If you do decide to read it, I'd say do it as an ebook. At 1400 pages, it's VERY heavy to hold! I read it on my iPad, and it helped a lot.
Also, although there are probably 250 people in the book, there are really only twenty who are important to moving the plot along. And they are all listed in the beginning of the book, in a "cheat sheet," which I bookmarked and referred to for a while until I remembered who they all were. Then after a hundred pages, they all became like family to me!
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The number of characters in a book is something unsettling for me as well, Elaine.
Sometimes I can't remember who is who...
Same when the names sound similar... and believe me it happens.
Congrats on your bookmarks!:tup::tup:
 
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