Crime and Punishment Weekly Posts
Week 1, 6 May 2024: Part One, Chapter 1
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…
Week 2, 13 May 2024: Part One, Chapter 2
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
Week 3, 20 May 2024: Part One, Chapter 3
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
Week 4, 27 May 2024: Part One, Chapter 4
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
Week 5, 3 June 2024: Part One, Chapter 5
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
Week 6, 10 June 2024: Part One, Chapter 6
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
Week 7, 17 June 2024: Part One, Chapter 7
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?
Week 8, 24 June 2024: Part Two, Chapter 1
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.
Week 9, 1 July 2024: Part Two, Chapter 2
Raskol means Split: Before and After
Hiding the loot then visiting Razumikhin. Then home for a nightmare.
Week 9, 8 July 2024: Part Two, Chapter 3
Delirious
Raskolnikov is in a fever dream, while a panoply of people call round to see him in his tiny apartment.
Week 10, 15 July 2024: Part Two, Chapter 4
Week 11, 22 July 2024: Part Two, Chapter 5
Go to Hell, Luzhin!
Enter Mr Luzhin. Are he and Raskolnikov going to be friends? Erm, in a word, NO!
Week 12, 29 July 2024: Part Two, Chapter 6
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!..."