Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment Weekly Posts

Week 1, 6 May 2024: Part One, Chapter 1

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An Exceptionally Hot Day in St Petersburg

Cams Campbell
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May 12, 2024
An Exceptionally Hot Day in St Petersburg

Welcome to Crime and Punishment! Well, hello there! I’m so glad you’ve decided to join my slow read of this epic Russian classic. Some of you will be coming over from the read-along that I started a few weeks ago on The StoryGraph, and some of you will be completely new. The original read-along will continue and will remain seven weeks ahead, but I wante…

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Week 2, 13 May 2024: Part One, Chapter 2

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Poverty is Not a Crime

Cams Campbell
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May 19, 2024
Poverty is Not a Crime

Welcome to Week 2 of my slow-read of Crime and Punishment. This week’s chapter is Part One, Chapter 2. Please bookmark the homepage for the read-along. Here, you’ll find links to everything you need as we read the novel together. Crime and Punishment homepage

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Week 3, 20 May 2024: Part One, Chapter 3

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God is Dead

Cams Campbell
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May 26, 2024
God is Dead

Welcome to Week 3 of my slow-read of Crime and Punishment. This week’s chapter is Part One, Chapter 3. Please bookmark the homepage for the read-along. Here, you’ll find links to everything you need as we read the novel together. Crime and Punishment homepage

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Week 4, 27 May 2024: Part One, Chapter 4

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Mr Luzhin Can Go To Hell!

Cams Campbell
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June 3, 2024
Mr Luzhin Can Go To Hell!

Welcome to Week 4 of my slow-read of Crime and Punishment. This week’s chapter is Part One, Chapter 4. Please bookmark the homepage for the read-along. Here, you’ll find links to everything you need as we read the novel together. Crime and Punishment homepage

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Week 5, 3 June 2024: Part One, Chapter 5

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Across the Tuchkov Bridge

Cams Campbell
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June 9, 2024
Across the Tuchkov Bridge

Welcome to Week 5 of my slow-read of Crime and Punishment. This week’s chapter is Part One, Chapter 5. Please bookmark the homepage for the read-along. Here, you’ll find links to everything you need as we read the novel together. Crime and Punishment homepage

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Week 6, 10 June 2024: Part One, Chapter 6

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That was the work of the Devil, not reason!

Cams Campbell
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June 16, 2024
That was the work of the Devil, not reason!

Welcome to Week 6 of my slow-read of Crime and Punishment. This week’s chapter is Part One, Chapter 6. Please bookmark the homepage for the read-along. You’ll find links to everything you need as we read the novel together. Crime and Punishment homepage

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Week 7, 17 June 2024: Part One, Chapter 7

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The Murder

June 24, 2024
The Murder

And now we're at the moment, it's crime time. Will it go down as you expected? Or as Raskolnikov himself expected?

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Week 8, 24 June 2024: Part Two, Chapter 1

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Poverty is not a Crime

Cams Campbell
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July 1, 2024
Poverty is not a Crime

We're into part two of the novel. The crime has been committed. Time for the punishment. Although that did kinda start before.

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Week 9, 1 July 2024: Part Two, Chapter 2

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Raskol means Split: Before and After

Cams Campbell
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July 8, 2024
Raskol means Split: Before and After

Hiding the loot then visiting Razumikhin. Then home for a nightmare.

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Week 9, 8 July 2024: Part Two, Chapter 3

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Delirious

Cams Campbell
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July 15, 2024
Delirious

Raskolnikov is in a fever dream, while a panoply of people call round to see him in his tiny apartment.

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Week 10, 15 July 2024: Part Two, Chapter 4

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Behind the door?

Cams Campbell
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July 21, 2024
Behind the door?

A chat around Raskolnikov's sickbed. It doesn't leave him feeling any better.

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Week 11, 22 July 2024: Part Two, Chapter 5

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Go to Hell, Luzhin!

Cams Campbell
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July 28, 2024
Go to Hell, Luzhin!

Enter Mr Luzhin. Are he and Raskolnikov going to be friends? Erm, in a word, NO!

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Week 12, 29 July 2024: Part Two, Chapter 6

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Ilya Petrovich Is a Blockhead.

Cams Campbell
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August 4, 2024
Ilya Petrovich Is a Blockhead.

"Where was it I once read about someone condemned to death who, an hour before he's due to die, says or thinks that, if he were forced to live somewhere on a high cliff, on some narrow little ledge with room only for him, surrounded by nothing but precipices, the ocean, everlasting darkness, isolation and storms, and were forced to remain standing there in that tiny little space for all his life, for a thousand years, for ever, it would be better to live like that than to die? Just to live, to live, to be alive! It wouldn't matter how - just to live!..."

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