Today's Featured Book:
The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Genre: Fiction
Published: 1880
Page Count: 840 pages
Summary:
Dostoevsky’s final, greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov, paints a complex and richly detailed portrait of a family tormented by its extraordinarily cruel patriarch, Fyodor Pavlovich, whose callous decisions slowly decimate the lives of his sons—the eponymous brothers Karamazov—and lead to his violent murder. In the aftermath of the killing, the brothers contend with dilemmas of honor, faith, and reason as the community closes in on the murderer in their midst.
Aleksey Fyodorovich Karamazov was the third son of a landowner in our district, Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, so well known in his own time (and still remembered among us) for his dark and tragic demise, which occurred exactly thirteen years ago, and which I'll tell you about at the proper time.
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Miusov was on the verge of shouting, but he suddenly restrained himself and remarked with contempt: "You defile everything you touch."
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This will be my long chapter-a-day read to start out this year. The Brothers Karamazov has 96 chapters, so I should finish it, if all goes well, on April 6th.
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Looking back, which books from 2025 stood out as your favorites? (submitted by Billy @ Coffee-Addicted Writer)
Nice! I never read 1984, for some reason it just never popped up on my syllabus in any of my English classes! The other is totally new to me! Glad you found some enjoyable ones last year!
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I have never read “The Brothers Karamazov.” Perhaps it’s time. Past time in fact.
ReplyDeleteI think the chapter-a-day method sounds great. I need to do this!
ReplyDeleteReading Dostoevsky was a fad among my friends in high school so I read The Brothers Karamazov then, and I have reread it since but not very recently. Totally a classic! Good way to start a reading year. You always make me realize that I should be more intentional about reading. At the moment I’m reading a terrible piece of trash that amazon somehow trapped me into reading (it was free).
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These look good.
ReplyDeleteThe Brothers Karamazov sounds interesting. Quite a long book!
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We had to read The Brothers Karamazov in high school and it seems like madness to have a bunch of 17 years olds reading such a complex work and I remember nothing about it except being confused. I really should give it another try.
ReplyDeleteYou've featured some really great books here, all three of which I read and loved long ago. "The Brothers Karamazov" is one of my all time favorite books. I read and then reread it multiple times way back in my late teens or twenties when time seemed endless and an 800-plus page book was just a couple of days' effort.
ReplyDeleteSome wonderful books! Happy Reading!
ReplyDeleteYou read such a wide variety of books! I hope you had a good week. ❤️
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