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Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

Start date: April 1, 2015

Finish date: April 30, 2015

Discussion: Group Read Archive 2014-16

Why we're reading this: Classic Group Read - April 2015
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Group Read Archive 2014-16

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Jan 21, 2017 Catie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, favorites, fiction, buddy-reads, romance, book-club, literature, 19th-century, european-literature, cultural-russia

Buddy read w/ @bookishsteph1, @pagesandcup and @tanged - Jan/Feb 2017
@vintagebooks #readingtherussians Book Club - April/May 2017

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Jun 01, 2019 Eileen rated it really liked it

Shelves: classics, romance, 2019, audiobook, cultural, 2019genrechallenge, tragedy

4-4.5

This was my first foray into Russian literature and I'm glad I started with this one. The Russian names were challenging for me, but Maggie Gyllenhaal is a wonderful reader and between her and the translation, I felt this book was very accessible. I think I might have gotten even more out of it if I had been reading it with someone and able to discuss it. Although this is called Anna Karenina, Kitty and Levin is what made the story for me. I loved Levin and his questioning of everything, an ...more

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May 08, 2008 🥀 Rose 🥀 rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, drama-fiction

This is my husband's favorite book ever and it has taken me 20 years to finally pick it up and read it. I can't say that I didn't like it, however I didn't love it either. I found the book bogged down with long stretches of thoughts and dialogue that were heavy handed and long winded. I'm not sure what makes this book a classic. I cannot give a full review of how I feel about the characters as I have just finished the book and have not yet made a decision about them. This is not a book of black ...more

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Jan 14, 2009 Kelly rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 1001-books-to-read

I read this with Oprah, as Tolstoy was not an author that I read in my Russian Literature class in college. I enjoyed this much more than I thought I would. It is lengthy, but a very good story and worth the read if for nothing else but to say, "I did it." ...more

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