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So I'm still rolling along with War & Peace, and I'm certainly far enough into it that I can absolutely relate to this meme.

Leo, please stop. I cannot keep track of all the Annas, even with their patronyms. Even the family trees and list of important characters in the back isn't helping in some cases, though I guess as I re-read it will get clearer. My most recent head-scratcher was, "Boris is related to Natasha? HOW. Did he ever mention this ... *scans the first few chapters again* ugh, I guess he is, whatever. Natasha shouldn't marry Boris anyway, he's a jackass."

Anyway, I'm on volume two, part three.

I'm also curious as to why this isn't published in multiple physical volumes. Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn was a series of long, thick books, and the third one, which was close to 1,400 pages in paperback, was published in a split edition. It doesn't seem like it would be a bad thing to do the same with W&P, though I'm pretty sure what I've just said is somehow literary heresy.

On an unrelated note, it's supposed to cool off more this weekend! Can't wait! :D

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Although I haven't read the book, recycling names brought to mind my own family tree. They LOVED to do this, so it makes things quite difficult to keep branches straight. Must be a Russian thing lol. [complicated, although I'm not Russian, my ancestors lived there.]

My dad's family is almost the opposite - they all have odd, sort of old-fashioned names. My mom's family has an opposite quirk in that all the girls seem to have the same middle name.

Interesting!

My mom & I have the same middle name but beyond that, no modern anomalies.

It doesn't matter whether Boris is related to Natasha, so long as they keep after that pesky moose and sqvirrel!

Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn! Now there's a series I need to reread.