void0

🇮🇳/🇲🇽 artist/musician/reader and a lover of anything creative! (if you like dnd, jazz, cozy coffeeshops, and nature, then youre in the right place). member of the aqa

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Johannes Cabal the Necromancer (Johannes Cabal, #1)

A Wrinkle in Time (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet, #1)

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void0

Dec 31, 2025

2.0

Enjoyment: 2.0Quality: 3.5Characters: 3.0Plot: 2.5

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I liked the idea but I was soo confused while reading. I genuinely have no idea if Miri and Miranda are the same person or what happened with Sade or anyone else. Also the narration was really hard for me to follow, there was no clear distinction of who was talking. I appreciated the idea but def not my kind of writing style 😅

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White Is for Witching

Helen Oyeyemi

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White Is for Witching

Helen Oyeyemi

In a vast, mysterious house on the cliffs near Dover, the Silver family is reeling from the hole punched into its heart. Lily is gone and her twins, Miranda and Eliot, and her husband, the gentle Luc, mourn her absence with unspoken intensity. All is not well with the house, either, which creaks and grumbles and malignly confuses visitors in its mazy rooms, forcing winter apples in the garden when the branches should be bare. Generations of women inhabit its walls. And Miranda, with her new appetite for chalk and her keen sense for spirits, is more attuned to them than she is to her brother and father. She is leaving them slowly - Slipping away from them - And when one dark night she vanishes entirely, the survivors are left to tell her story. "Miri I conjure you " This is a spine-tingling tale that has Gothic roots but an utterly modern sensibility. Told by a quartet of crystalline voices, it is electrifying in its expression of myth and memory, loss and magic, fear and love.

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void0

Dec 30, 2025

3.5

Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 4.5Characters: 3.5Plot: 3.0

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I loved the language and the different experiences of both women. I loved how it all tied together, but it did take a while to connect.

Alma’s love for Santi and her mother was beautiful, and I think that her final choices reflect how she was changed by her hardship and how she grew to become a new version of herself. She was able to find a comfort in the vampire “Maria”, something she couldn’t find with Javier or anyone else

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Thirst

Marina Yuszczuk

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War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves his family behind to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter of a nobleman who intrigues both men. As Napoleon’s army invades, Tolstoy brilliantly follows characters from diverse backgrounds—peasants and nobility, civilians and soldiers—as they struggle with the problems unique to their era, their history, and their culture. And as the novel progresses, these characters transcend their specificity, becoming some of the most moving—and human—figures in world literature. Tolstoy gave his personal approval to this translation, published here in a new single volume edition, which includes an introduction by Henry Gifford, and Tolstoy's important essay `Some Words about War and Peace'.

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A Year of War and Peace - Day 0 - Introductions!

Welcome to A Year of War and Peace (AYoWaP)!

This is an evergreen, long-term reading project where we'll be reading one chapter of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy each day/ The goal is not speed or completion pressure, but slow, thoughtful engagement with the text and conversation that can grow over time.

How the Reading Works

We'll read one chapter per day, I'll start creating the daily posts on 12/31/25, but you are welcome to start your day 1 whenever you like!
I'll post a daily discussion thread with: A few optional discussion questions (pulled from other AYoWaP groups and past reading guides) and the last sentence of the day's chapter to help align different editions (I'm using the 361-chapter version of the novel which seems to be more common).
Everyone is welcome to answer the questions, start their own discussions, ask clarifying questions, jump in whenever they like!

This is designed to be evergreen so if you discover this thread weeks, months, or years from now, you are still very much welcome!

Posting Schedule & Naming Convention

Daily threads will be titled like this AYoWaP Day 1 Part 1:1 and I'll tag it at the % read of the 361 chapter.
I'm in the US Central Time Zone - but I am NOT a morning person, so daily posts will generally go up the evening before.
The first post will be on 12/31/25, kicking off with Part 1: Chapter 1 (If you'd like to read the intruction beforehand or on that day, feel free!)

Helpful Resources If you'd like extra support, here are some optional, spoiler-free resources.

Reading Schedules for both the 361-chapter and 365-chapter versions.
Spoiler-free character list (extremly helpful early on)
Free Public-Domain Editions of War and Peace Audiobook: LibriVox Ebook (EPUB, Kindle, HTML, Plain text): Project Gutenberg Google Play eBook

Discord - optional, more casual I've also set up a discord server for anyone who'd like a more casual, chat-oriented space alongside the forum discussion. The Pagebound forum will be the main archive though!:

Discord Link

If anyone who uses Discord regularly would like to help keep things organized over there, feel free to reach out - very low pressure! (Also note for 2026 cohort, I literally learned how to create a Discord server today... so there is not much there... bear with me).

Introductions!! If you'd like, feel free to introduce yourself in whatever way you feel comfortable! Including but not limited to: Why you are interested in War and Peace? Is this your first Tolstoy, first time reading War and Peace, a reread? How are you reading (print, ebook, audio)?

Looking forward to reading along side you all!

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Dune (Dune, #1)

Frank Herbert

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Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

Martha Wells

Murderbot wasn’t programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right? Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous transgressions, as well as those of the GrayCris Corporation, Murderbot is heading home to help Dr. Mensah—its former owner (protector? friend?)—submit evidence that could prevent GrayCris from destroying more colonists in its never-ending quest for profit. But who’s going to believe a SecUnit gone rogue? And what will become of it when it’s caught?

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Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

void0

Dec 30, 2025

4.0

Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.5Plot: 4.0

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Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

Martha Wells

SciFi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is again on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah’s SecUnit is. And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good.

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Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

Martha Wells

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void0

Dec 29, 2025

2.0

Enjoyment: 1.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 3.0

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I really wanted to like this book, but there were too many moments where I was just wildly confused and uncomfortable. The language was wonderful and I appreciate the efforts of the author but all the detailed imagery did not do me any good with the mothers or the infamous grape

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