I Read Anna Karenina

To be clear, that is "read," present tense, not "read," past tense. I have just begun to read Anna Karenina. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy is said by many to be the best novel ever written.

I have an ebook of Anna Karenina and I have the same version as a real paperback. My copy of Anna Karenina has 864 pages and I am on page 30. I've already met ten characters, and the Russian names are beginning to tumble and jumble together in my mind.

I can see that reading Anna Karenina is going to be an event.

Why, you may be asking, are you reading Anna Karenina at this most busy time of the year?

The simple answer is that Anna Karenina was my draw for the Classics Club Spin. (You do, of course, know about the Classics Club, right? If you do not, check here for more information, and sign up with your fifty classics today...time's a-wasting.) This spin is unique for Classics Club Spins; we have been given two months---the entire months of December and January---to read a book on our list. We were encouraged to pick our longer books. I stacked the deck and offered up my five longest books to the spin gods and Anna Karenina is what I drew.

How is it going? you may be wondering. The short answer is: slowly. I expected that, of course. I'm good at setting a pace, though, and I've already figured out that I can make it to the end if I average just fifteen pages a day.

I will read Anna Karenina by January 31st. I will.




Have any of you read Anna Karenina? Do you have any pointers for me with this very-long novel? Any helps out there?

What did you draw for the Classics Club Spin? How do you feel about your Spin pick?

What is the Sunday Salon? Imagine some university library's vast reading room. It's filled with people--students and faculty and strangers who've
wandered in. They're seated at great oaken desks, books piled all around them,and they're all feverishly reading and jotting notes in their leather-bound
 journals as they go. Later they'll mill around the open dictionaries and compare their thoughts on the afternoon's literary intake....That's what happens
at the Sunday Salon, except it's all virtual. Every Sunday the bloggers participating in that week's Salon get together--at their separate desks, in their
own particular time zones--and read. And blog about their reading. And comment on one another's blogs. Think of it as an informal, weekly,
mini read-a-thon, an excuse to put aside one's earthly responsibilities and fall into a good book. Click here to join the Salon.

The Sunday Post is a meme hosted by Kimba at Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It's a chance to share news and recap the past week.

Mailbox Monday was created by Marcia at The Printed Page. We share books that we found in our mailboxes last week. 

 It is now being hosted here.

Stacking the Shelves is a meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews in which you can share the books you've acquired.

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week…. and anything in between!
This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well… you never know where that next “must read”
book will come from! I love being a part of this and I hope you do too! It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted at The Book Date.