Peanuts by Charles Schulz for October 28, 2023

“War and Peace” might kill him!

Nice shot, Rerun!

I tried reading Anna Karenina. I was engrossed by the first chapter, but totally lost in the second.

A little taste of Tolstoy, for a not-so-good boy!

I remember these strips from the newspaper, but I think it took years before I realised that it wasn’t Linus. Rerun’s birth must have been before I was old enough to read, and our collected Peanuts books only had Lucy and Linus with no younger sibling.

And this is the source of the phrase, “He threw the book at him.”

How about Leo’s Toystore by Warren Peace?

A hard read aHEAD – Surely a book to rack your brain…

Is the dog’s name Anna? (And does it start to careen-in-a second after being hit?)

So that is why he borrowed that book.

Should sic that psychotic cat on him.

If it were me, I’d have used a copy of David Copperfield.

Mrs. Van Pelt must pay a fortune in library fines.

The original date of this strip was November 1, 1976. It was not the day after the end of the Patty-Snoopy story. That story ended November 29th. The original November 30th strip was Linus talking about Halloween being tomorrow. Obviously, that strip has to be delayed until Monday.

Is that…an adult…in Panel One?

“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”.

Today, he would be throwing some sort of e-book device at the dog…

Whoever said “but words will never hurt me” has never been beaten with a dictionary or a phone directory (remember those?). Or has seen this comic!

The fine for a damaged/lost book could be expensive…

Poor dog.

I wonder if Rerun is prepared for his mom wondering what happened to her book.

Rerun will rename it, “Ammo Karenina”.

If Rerun went by the striking SAG/AFTRA actors on the picket lines (who rumor has it with talks this weekend the started in July 2023 SAG/AFTRA actors strike could be over before Halloween with an approved deal so that scripted TV and movies for midseason 2024 target can be saved and not get Hollywood into bankruptcy or something like that), he would throw that same “Anna Karinia” book at them,.

Now, this is funny. Linus checks out a copy of Anna Karenina just to deal with the dog. Not that he plans on reading the book but just because its the right weight to take out the dog. He must pile up a lot of overdue fees.

Bad, bad Linus

Tolstoy for the modern world…

This had me actually laughing out loud.

A little “light” reading.

That is hilarious!

“Usually?” How often does Mrs. Van Pelt check that book out?

They will however get a fee from the library when the book isn’t returned on time (or at all).

Dostoevsky just makes him depressed

I wonder who brings the books back and if they don’t miss “Anna Karenina”

Didn’t Anna Karenina have enough problems?

Oct. 28 Heathcliff if no one else has said it.

Library trips must get awfully expensive for mom.

Rerun will see the start of his earning an allowance delayed to offset his mother’s library fines

And then Rerun gets sued for animal cruelty?

Best use for a Russian novel I’ve ever seen.

The book mightier than the shoe..

Not Rerun again!

Well,books are better than your own shoe(his usual chastisement)

Dorothy Parker once described a book as “not to be tossed aside lightly. It should be hurled with great force.”