Current Readings

Just finished Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. Had never read it before and found it amazing. A little long (over 800 pages) but I really didn't want it to end. Tolstoy was brilliant in the developing of the characters, the settings, and the social conditions of his time. He wrote it in the 1870s, yet much of what he concerned himself with are still the concerns of today. The themes are universal.

I'm presently reading Joan Baez's Daybreak. I've always admired her as a singer and as a social activist. I didn't know she had written a book. Her writing style is very creative and has to do with life around her and the people who impressed her in her daily life rather than her professional life. I've only thirty pages to go to finish the book (191 pages) and she's yet to mention her singing. I love her spirit and compassion for those around her.