As we get ready to say goodbye to November, we flip the pages closer and closer to the end of the War and Peace Chapter-a-day Read-along. I hope you have enjoyed the book as much as I have in this very challenging year. Although I haven’t been able to blog during these last months, I’ve been keeping up with reading a chapter each day and posting quotes on Twitter and Facebook. And now the story is reaching its end. In fact, if you’ve looked at the schedule lately, you will see that the actual story ends this coming Tuesday and the rest of the year will be spent reading the two long epilogues. The schedule also calls for a break on Wednesday and you can take the day off or read Tolstoy’s short story, “Where Love Is God Is.”

It’s also time to start looking toward next year, and I’ve already been preparing for the 2021 Chapter-a-day Read-along. For the fourth year of the read-along I’ve chosen what I think is a great selection of  books and I’m already excited to start reading them. I’ve got the website graphics created and I’m eager to announce the books, but I’m going to wait a few days before making them public. I can tell you that there are four books in store for next year and each one is from a different country. I can also tell you that all four are available for free online. Look for more details in the coming days.

Update, November 27: I just noticed that one of the books I had chosen was just read recently by a lot of you who participate in these read-alongs so I am adjusting things, but I still hope to have something ready for you soon.

I’m also toying with another read-along idea that I’m still working on, and I’ll let you know if that comes to fruition. It’s more ambitious than the chapter-a-day read-along, but I’m hoping to make it work.

In the meantime, enjoy the rest of War and Peace!