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I'm glad the December book has been pushed back to January. I've just finished *War and Peace*. Wow, Tolstoy really disliked Napoleon. (In common, I guess, with most of 19th century Europe).

All I know about *Daniel Deronda* is that it features a guy who wonders whether he is Jewish. Apparently it never occurs to him to look in his pants to see if he is circumcised, so there are 900 pages of wondering. I've read one chapter so far.

I'm watching the DVD of the Audrey Hepburn version of *War and Peace* to help me with reading the book. (The way the characters' names keep changing is very confusing).

Even the movie version is very, very long! It's all war! Peace! More war!