my most annotated book 🖇️ war and peace flip through
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- finally a big annotation video about the 1300+ page monster !
In this video...
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A heavily annotated book is such a beautiful thing.
totally agree
totally disagree
shut up
The last time I saw Emma talk about W&P, I thought there's no way I'll be able to read and especially enjoy that book but I'm so happy to report back that I did and fell head over heels in love with it. I can't thank you enough Emma
I own it. But I am still scared by it
@@ramirez4630 don’t be!
nothing better than sitting down to have dinner after a long day of studying and doing presentations and finding that emma posted
“War and peace” or how they call it in Russia “Special military operation and ‘cease fire’”
Fascinating annotation methods. Deep dives into serious novels like War and Peace offer so much more than a simple reading. Brava, Emma. Thank you for being so thorough and enthusiastic. You're inspiring so many of us to dive in and explore, to take our time and discover.
No freaking way! I started reading War & Peace a week ago after watching your previous W&P coverage. Can’t thank you enough for this recommendation!
hahha I want to start reading it, but although I usually get my books from the library I'm gonna wanna buy this one because of time pressure and my conviction that this is a book I won't be done with an entire lifetime
In the middle of the mammoth that is Les Miserables! Can’t wait to get to this book one day! 💕
Les Miserables inspired Tolstoy to write War and Peace!
@@Tolstoy111 STOP! Are you serious? That's really neat to know! Love these little fun facts! 😏🥰
@@Tania.atlasinajar Yep! Hugo's description of the Battle of Waterloo inspired the depictions of famous battles in W&P. Just like Madame Bovary inspired Anna Karenina
@@Tolstoy111 I'm gonna need you in my corner to feed me all these little insider bites! Very cool I have both Madam Bovary and Anna Karenina! I think now I Know in which order I will read them! 📚 😏
This book lives in my head. So many moments I remember perfectly. I yelled at the last chapter with the family. I really didn't want to leave them.
If Russian soldiers come to your house you can show them this book. They will love it.
Videos like this are so aesthetically pleasing it makes me actually get up and do my work 😂
I found your channel because I was looking for material on youtube that was about War and Peace. I loved the reading vlogs about War and Peace and I loved the book itself. It’s more than just a book to me. It is an antidepressant, a work of art and an amazing experience.
I’m on the epilogue for War and Peace. This is now one of my favorite books. Your short hair looks super cute!
Lol “do I wanna reread War and peace? No, don’t do it”. Emma, you are the only person who can make me want to read that book! ❤ Videos like these are a whole different thing, thank you for being so inspiring in many ways! Like actually studying harder or reading different books that are out of your comfort zone, things I did add to my day to day life, I love your videos!!
Me: studying while emma posts her video, i look at my books hesitantly trying to steer away from my guitly conscience.
My books : Nah! We ain't gonna stop you.
P.s ( love the regular posts)
This video has inspired me to finally tackle this absolute beast of a book. Wish me luck, everyone.
I looked at my W&P copy last night and I asked myself "OMG, How should I annotate this?", woke up this morning and saw this video 😆
I'm planning on reading war and peace this summer, but im kinda scared 😂
It's intimidating
Try reading the unabridged epic novel Les Miserables - it definitely needs tabs
God, I've been reading it for several months now (hugely inspired by your and Carolyn videos). And today I have 20 pages left, because I was saving it to read this evening, and there's this video! That was A JOURNEY indeed, and I annotated it quite heavily as well. Thank you so-so much for the inspiration to read this book, I am so happy I did it ❤
I'm currently on page 1062 of war and peace! I love watching your war and peace reading vlog when i need some motivation! Always hope you will come up with a new war and peace related video! Today, I'm one of the happiest 😍
You're out here tracking themes, meanwhile my notes are just like "slay" and "i support women's rights and wrongs"
don't worry lmao. in the secret history, I annotated it like a literal English major, and in pride and prejudice I just wrote:
omg
aahhh
ohhh
kys
kyssss!!!
war and peace is such a masterpiece!♡
i love how you annotated it >
your annotations are so wonderful!!!
seeing that you just finished Grendel in goodreads has brought me so much joy, it is one of my favorite books and it changed my life. I am so glad that you gave it 5 stars, it deserves more praise. .
After suffering through that book, and then getting to his last essay on the meaning of history, ect., I was ready to throw the book across the room- I thought tacking that big essay on at the end was a cheap high for Mr T. That was first read, then I read it again five years later, it was still kinda tough, but I did it, every last word ! Then, at 67 yrs. Old, about two years ago I picked it up and decided to leave my emotions out of it. I read it slowly, carefully, and soon I began to enjoy it ! I thought I must be coming down with a cold, or something. And now... now I look forward to read it again. Most importantly: don't get mad at it, let it be what it is. Branford Marsallas said of Picasso, " Picasso's not gonna come to you, You've got to go to Picasso's it's the same with Tolstoy... he was a giant of a man, and wrote some fabulous things. Good luck all, and Merry Christmas, bye far now, and carry on, Al
I don’t know if it is the French that complicates everything but the traduction of war and peace is so long that they cut the book in two 😹 I finished the first part and it is already 955 pages lmaoo
Loved the video
I've never made it through, but now I'm inspired! Yet another reason to admire Emma and her Great Book stamina! I just know some of it through Happy New Year, Charlie Brown when he has to read it over Christmas Break and write a book report, lol.
Tolstoy is next level
he's SO extra!
In the 90s, I only managed to read one-third of W&P due to my youthful mindset of having no time for such a masterpiece. However, I made a promise to return to it later in life. Unfortunately, my life became entangled with, ironically, the details of war as an Iraqi, preventing me from fulfilling my promise until recently. At the age of 48, I finally finished reading it and can attest that it was worth every second spent.
You're so pretty!
@emmiereads More videos like this??? Ohh! YES PLEASE EMMA ☺️ Annotating videos are just so soothing to watch, and motivates me more to read and annotate.♥️
totally agree, very relaxing and also motivating to see someone who read a book and had a lot to think about it ^^
I’m planning on reading War and Peace this year so this was really helpful! Scared but excited to read it
I could watch a million of these specific-to-book annotation videos!!
Emma, you haven't announced The Game of Tomes debate's date. I saw on Caroline's channel it's this Sunday, right?
i can't wait to learn more about choosing relevant themes to track in annotation when i start my lit studies...i suck at picking them, especially if i've never read the novel i'm annotating and going in blind. lovely video as always, emma!
if you liked war and peace you might want to check out the great comet of 1812! it's a musical based on this book. i haven't read war and peace so i don't know how different the musical is, but it's one of my favorite broadway shows ever. i heard it takes certain lines directly from the book tho. the stage was so elaborate, and the cast would walk around and interact with the audience! josh groban was in it too. sadly it closed on broadway a few years ago :(
It looks like you still have reading a 'good' translation of War and Peace in store for you. If you want to be as prepared to read War and Peace as you can, starting with selecting a GOOD translation is step one. I suggest the Ann Dunnigan, Anthony Briggs or (the team of) Pevear and Volokhonsky Translations (over the Maude or Garnett translations). Enjoy your next read in a good translation!
I’m really looking forward to you reading “crime and punishment” 👀💗
Do you tab while reading or is it like I’ll finish this chapter and then go back? That’s what I struggle with most. I try to stay in the moment with the book and trying to focus on things to tab disrupts the reading flow I guess?
Love you emmie! I also have a booktub channel! Thankyou for your support :) xx
I love these videos where you show us your thinking so much! Thank you so much Emma ^_^
Thank you for the spoiler-free video and for saying so at the beginning.
Yes I know that one. I heard its about................Russia.
This makes me want to try War and Peace. I read Anna Karenina, I liked it though I think I will get more out of it upon reread.
Lovely relaxing video ♡
same🤍!
Not me finishing War and Peace earlier this week...and now wanting to re-read War and Peace again, haha.
just started the video but you look so beautiful
Currently reading through this book along with your Tolstoy Diaries. Thank you for the content, the company and inspiration
On part 4, book 3!!! This is a perfectly timed video !!!! Thank you!!
You have very interesting approach..
You uploaded this AS I was rewatching the first ep of your War and Peace Diaries. Incredible
omg i started reading war and peace on the first of february and i'm so happy to see that you posted this video!!
please review brainwash: the world and its flaws
"Another book by Leo Tolstoy: one of the greatest in all the languages of the world, War and Peace. Not only the greatest but also the most voluminous...thousands of pages. I don’t know that anybody reads such books except myself. They are so big, so vast, they make you afraid
.But Tolstoy’s book has to be vast, it is not his fault. War and Peace is the whole history of human consciousness - the whole history; it cannot be written on a few pages. Yes, it is difficult to read thousands of pages, but if one can one will be transported to another world. One will know the taste of something classic. Yes, it is a classic.
Nobody is more worthy of a Nobel Prize than Leo Tolstoy. His creativity is immense, he was unsurpassed by anyone. He was nominated, but refused by the committee because of his unorthodox stories on Christianity. The Prize committee opens its records every fifty years. When records were opened in 1950, researchers rushed to see whose names were nominated and cancelled and for what reason. Leo Tolstoy was nominated, but never given the prize as he is not an orthodox Christian. Leo Tolstoy is one of Russia’s wisest men of the 20th century and his ideas on non-violence deeply influenced Mahatma Gandhi’s ideology. Mahatma Gandhi declared three persons his master. The first was Leo Tolstoy, the second was Henry Thoreau, and the third was Emerson.
Once Leo Tolstoy was asked - How many experiences did you have of divine ecstasy in your life? Tolstoy started crying. He replied - Not more than 7 in my life of 70 years, but I am grateful for those 7 moments and miserable too. In those moments it was evident that is could have been the flavor of my whole life but that didn’t happen. Those moments came and went on their own. But I am still grateful to God that even without any conscious effort on my part, once in a while He has been knocking at my doors.
. Anna Karenina is one of my most loved books. How many times I have read it I can’t remember. I mean the number of times - I remember the book perfectly well, I can relate the whole book.
.If I was drowning in the ocean and had to choose just one novel out of all the millions of novels in the world, I would choose Anna Karenina. It would be beautiful to be with that beautiful book. It has to be read and read again; only then you can feel it, smell it, and taste the flavor. It is no ordinary book.
Leo Tolstoy failed as a saint, just as Mahatma Gandhi failed as a saint, but Leo Tolstoy was a great novelist. Mahatma Gandhi succeeded as - and will remain forever - a pinnacle of sincerity. I don’t know of any other man in this century who was so sincere. When he wrote to people ‘sincerely yours’ he was really sincere. When you write ‘sincerely yours’, you know, and everybody else knows, and the person to whom you are writing also knows, that it is all bullshit. It is very difficult, almost impossible, to really be ‘sincerely yours’. That’s what makes a person religious - sincerity.
Leo Tolstoy wanted to be religious but could not be. He tried hard. I feel great sympathy with his effort, but he was not a religious person. He has to wait at least a few more lives. In a way it is good that he was not a religious man otherwise we would have missed Resurrection, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, and dozens more beautiful, immensely beautiful books. "
i could just listen to ou talking about the books evry day for the rest of my life
Ohhhhh this makes me want to reread this masterpiece so bad!
Beautiful annotations 😍😍😍
Annotate means adding written notes explaining some of the text or adding one's comments. I didn't see any notes (annotations) in this video, but I did see the colored tabbing of pages. Am I missing something? Maybe she annotates in a separate notebook?
I like to get into annotating, but I feel like I would have to stop constantly to do it. I'm still reading Anna Karenina, but now I want to pick up War & Peace. 😂 It's such a bad habit. 😉 The moment I watch a video where someone is talking about a book I've been meaning to read I want to pick up, but that's how I have I end up with a lot of unfinished books.😉
Emma! Im excited to read war and peace! 😖Also, you should read Life and Fate next! - You would love it! xo Its so awesome! 😣😖xo
I've got two copies of war and peace. The stuff I got out of it was mostly around the fighting, particulalry around the artillery. The point about the toughest soldiers being at the front and the cowards and shirkers at the back of the army was a bit of a revelation. Its been donkeys since I read it. There was more, as its a big read, but that single point was really important to me at the time. It seemed to coalesce something. The other point was how Society, transcended countries effectively, indicating its likely totally corrupt.
I read W&P a million years ago and kept track of the characters (who are referred two in multiple fashions, given the fact that it is pre-Revolution Russia) by using a pen-and-paper spreadsheet....
There was recently a decent TV adaptation, featuring Paul Dano. His performance worth it, even though the story was chopped severely to fit 10 episodes,
The Arabic translation of this novel is 4 whole books like this size 💔
Hi, I've been here for a while but I'm curious, do you also enjoy writing? Anything, fiction, nonfiction, essays ...? ^°^
Omg! I’ve been waiting for this video ever since I discovered your channel !❤
To be fair, one simply does not read war and peace and not annotate. For enjoyment or for note-taking purposes, and yes, even if you're not reading this school and solely for enjoyment you still have to take notes.
I have this exact copy and it stares me down from my bookshelf - but… this IS the year!
Thank you very much for this - it's fascinating to see your approach to reading this novel. I started reading W&P at the beginning of the year and finished Volume II this morning. We've highlighted many of the same points. I find Tolstoy very readable, much more so than I would have anticipated, and you've given me some ideas to explore during the remainder of the work, so thank you!
beautifully anotated.
i struggled so much with the war sections and thrived in the peace sections, when the characters were philosophical and discussed war, peace, love, life, etc.
how did you know to upload this the same week I brought my own copy of war and peace to do a reread where I annotate…!
I have this book staring at me from across the room. I so wish I had someone to read it with me. Either that or I may burn it. I’ve never been so scared of a book.
Will there be a great debate on war and peace? Love your videos x
this was so interesting emmie. i think i'm going to re-read anna karenina this summer and use your approach. thank you for a thoughtful video!
Isaac Babel said that if Life could write it would write like Tolstoy. The guy was the ultimate omniscient narrator. He knows everything about everyone and shares the telling detail that reveals profound truths about character.
Thx Emily. I believe when you reread W&P you'll need only a few days, rather than a few weeks. enjoy!
Her outfit and hair is giving me Briony vibes from Atonement and I’m living for it❤️
Emma you look so good with that haircut and somehow that top you're wearing makes it look better. Thanks for your channel and your calming content. I love this channel ❤️.
Your reading vlog where you finish War and Peace is how I found your channel 😁
when u said ‘keep track of…trace’ i got bojo flashbacks
hii
Please make a 100 pages or under 100 pages book recommendations for people who are just getting into reading or have time constraints
You are so intelligent!! I love hearing you talk about your passion!
600 characters in a single novel? 🙊💀
This is my most awaited video of yours. I was so curious. Anyways, I am fascinated by the way you annotate a book. 😍
Hello Emma, thank you for another lovely video. I adore your new haircut!! Suits you so well 🩵✨️
your channel is so comfortable for me and i want to read war and peace :)✨️
I have War and Peace and was thinking of choosing a month in the summer to read it during. I really want to take it slow.
first!!
No rusia, Ukraine will destroy that piece of shame what names "rusian literature" Glory To Ukraine!
Cixin Liu trilogy - the most annotated book in my collection. Epic!
Thank you so much for this video Emma ♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡
oh not emma making me want to reread war and peace again
luv ya
One of my favorite books of all time. I read it so long ago though, I need to reread it and totally annotate it. ❤
I just sat down to start War and Peace. Very excited!
i would loveeee a one hundred years of solitude flip through ❤
read war and peace because of you! ❤❤❤
what are the theatrical bits? idgi
2023 is the year I finally read War and Peace ✌🏽
God do I want to push through and continue reading this !
i have the same copy at home and i’m thinking of reading it this year !!