Lately I spend all of my free time with Isaiah* and Tolstoy. I need to get a life.
Anyway, when I was in law school this boy was telling me about Anna Karenina. I said that it sounded interesting, and he said "I don't know if you should read it...it is very long and difficult." So I figured he was right and the book was probably above my mental capacity, and thus put it off for all of these years.
Well, I am halfway through the book and the only difficult thing about it is all of Tolstoy's talk about farming! Seriously! Why does Tolstoy love loooooong sections about hunting and farming???
Just wanted to give the blogosphere the great update that Anna Karenina is WONDERFUL thus-far, and that at 800 pages it seems very short compared to War and Peace.
*I am teaching Isaiah this summer for Institute! It is great! And HARD!
I read Anna Karenina last year! It was my first time. I am the type of reader that will sit through/read all of the philosophy and boring down times in a book. I am really good at that. I read every single word of the Old Testament including every single begat for chapters on end. I feel an obligation to the author to read every word BUT this book did push my limits. I surprised myself and actually (towards the very end) started SKIPPING the long philosophical/envious life of a farmer sections. My favorite sections dealt with other things--like her first husband. He ended up being pretty interesting! We'll have to chat about Tolstoy together one day!
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