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After initially feeling totally unable to distinguish between some of the male characters, I am far enough along to feel as if the characters are within my grasp. Only in pg. 91. I have a free period at work(prep) & I have been rewarding myself with reading this text then while my brain is still working! I am beginning to enjoy this novel. #KareninaWinter

Starting my Sunday with coffee, cake, & Anna Karenina.☕️🍰📖

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December
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14 ❄️ Part 2
21 ❄️ Part 3
28 ❄️ Part 4
January
4. ❄️ Part 5
11 ❄️ Part 6
18 ❄️ Part 7
25 ❄️ Part 8

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A sweeping panoramic view of late 19th-century Russia and the strict confines of noble women. I was surprised to see that Levin was more like Anna than any other character, and the novel was really about both of them, not just Anna. Though a tragic character, Anna was unlikable at times, but perhaps she wouldn't have been if she had lived in the modern era. 4.5/5

A classic on my TBR … this one has deckled edges and French flaps. Thank you Prime Day.

If I remember correctly, there‘s some #Theater scenes in this one or maybe I‘m just influenced by the movie featuring Keira Knightly?

#StorySettings

I enjoyed reading this book. I loved the story and the characters. I rated this book a 4 out of 5 stars.

I finally read this. It only took me three months!

#hearts #luckyinlove @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

So many characters to keep up with, but I can see why this is considered a classic!

FINALLY just over halfway through this book!

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The main story is great and maybe one or two of the side plots. But overall, there is way too much going on in this novel and way too many characters to keep track of.

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Both relationships in ANNA KARENINA = BAD. #pooranna

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

I can‘t believe I‘m actually saying this, but as far as I‘m concerned, Anna Karenina is just… fine? It wasn‘t the dreadful slog I was worried it might be, but it wasn‘t brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same either. If you‘re thinking about reading it, go ahead – there‘s no reason to be afraid. Full review: https://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/anna-karenina-leo-tolstoy-review/

In case anyone wants a deal on an ebook chunkster, tagged ebook is on sale today

Just finished this awesome bookish puzzle 🧩. I have the first lines mug & when I saw someone on here 🤔 post this puzzle, I had to get one for me, and one for my puzzling book-loving friend Sophie for Christmas ❤️🙏🎄.

A little break

😍. It‘s a book, no no it‘s a film. Ok still awesome. https://www.nybooks.com/online/2022/11/22/the-agony-of-sophia-tolstoy/?utm_mediu...

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Feel free to join in the fun. Thanks for the tag @Cinfhen 😊
📚 Fiction - tagged, non-fic - All quiet on the western front by Erich Maria Remarque
✍️ Margaret Atwood... always
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“‘No.‘ he said to himself, ‘however good that life of simplicity and toil may be. I cannot go back to it. I love her,‘”
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I read it a couple years ago, during the very first lockdown.. Loved it! 💙

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I just can‘t y‘all. I‘m blaming modern day short attention span, if I‘m being nice…. But really it‘s just kind of a boring book IMHO, just not for me 😆

A classic Russian novel. Tolstoy when he‘s out of his comfort zone is far more interesting. Not quite as wonderful and earth shaking as Lolita, but it‘s certainly well written and a fun read. The kind of book you can read over a few months next to your bed.

I just don‘t know about this y‘all. I am on part 2 and somehow still have 23 hours left. In confusion I thought to check the chapter list because how many parts can a novel have and it has EIGHT PARTS people! And I mean, the story is charming? And the characters lively and entertaining? Still…. Eight parts, man…. That‘s a lot of parts.

I have 28 hours of driving coming up, so I‘m trying Anna Karenina again, I feel like I‘ve tried it before but now I don‘t really remember why I bailed, but if I remember I‘ll be sure to quit on it again, but this time I‘ll record why on here 😆

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@TheNeverendingTBR Thanks for the tag 😘

1. Yes, I do. I have a TBR dedicated to classic 🤣
2. Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary will be next 🤟🏻

It‘s not a bad book but the story got really slow and boring in a lot of chapters imo.
I really enjoyed Kitty and Levin‘s love story, probably my favorite part.
Anna‘s story was heartbreaking she made a lot of mistakes but she was still a victim to society and it got into her head so bad to a point where she had no faith or hope in anyone anymore.
Overall the book was beautifully written and talks about themes that are relevant to this day.

“my whole life, independently of anything that may happen to me, is every moment of it no longer meaningless as it was before, but has an unquestionable meaning of goodness with which I have the power to invest it.”

“Levin kissed her carefully on her smiling lips, offered his arm, and with a feeling of strange closeness led her out of the church. He could not believe it was all true, and only realized it when their surprised and timid glances met and he felt that they were already one.”

“He seized the chalk with nervous, trembling fingers, broke
it, and wrote the initial letters of the following: 'I have
nothing to forget or forgive, I never ceased to love you.”

This chalk episode and confession between Kitty and Levin might be my favorite from this book, it was very beautiful and pure.

“Not only in that room but in the whole world there existed for him nothing but Kitty and himself; and he had now acquired a great significance and importance.”