My Favorite Book is Pretentious
The dreaded question for a reader is this: what's your favorite book? It's almost impossible to answer, I have a list of over 200. And yet, for the past couple years I've known my answer: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. Now I realize this is a really pretentious answer, and I have had people roll their eyes when I say it, but it did something to my brain when I first read it in 2019 and I've been obsessed with it ever since. Recently, I've been worried that maybe it isn't actually my favorite book and I've just been saying so for the shock and awe, because I was having trouble pinpointing just why I love it so much. And so, I committed to doing a re-read. Which is no small feet by the way, because it's 1,200 pages long and the print is very small and the cast of characters is huge. But I'm happy to say that I have accomplished my goal and my second reading cemented it as my favorite book. And I'll tell you why. When I first read War and Peace a lo...