Anna Karenina

Hallelujah! I'm finished. Finally.

Glad I stuck it out and finished but now I know I am not a Tolstoy fan. Tolstoy's writing wanders all over the place with tangents. I admit there were a number of times I zoned out but kept going. It was like a soap opera. I still knew what was going on even if I missed an episode. And as if the all the tangents weren't enough, at one point, Tolstoy thought it was a brilliant idea to hear/read the dog's thoughts. Yes, the dog.

Thank god for Levin and Kitty - at least when she wasn't being a whiny, lovesick girl and he wasn't yapping about farming with the peasants. Without them I would have wanted to throw the whole book under the train with Anna.