Aspects of war and peace by Joy Lenton
Would you believe I haven't read a novel in months? As a professed bookworm, I've been sticking to my preferred genre for a while - namely non fiction - mostly memoir, devotional reflections and poetry. My soul is craving some escapism, so I've chosen to lose myself in Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' . For. The. First. Time... gulp! Crazy, or what? Although I have enjoyed reading Solzhenitsyn and Dostoevsky in the past. I began 'War and Peace' after the TV series had commenced. My reading speed is slow because I'm more used to the dip, sip, savour or pause, ponder, pray way of digesting books rather than feasting on fiction. Life often feels like war and peace combined as flesh and spirit are in combat with one another. Books I read invariably reveal some commonality with my own life, enlarge understanding and inform my writing. Here, universal themes of love, hate, faith, conflict, power, politics, war and peace are already evident, as ...