July 3, 2013
As I'm about 76% of the way through Anna Karenina, I did a little Google search on Leo Tolstoy and instead of being interested in facts about his anarchism or gambling problems... I was obviously more intrigued by this (give me a break- I don't have to be to work today...
June 1, 2013
Lorelai is sleeping away and I'm sitting on my porch reading Anna Karenina with a delicious cup of coffee in my hand!
May 3, 2013
Syphilis and gonorrhea!? Did Tolstoy know how to party or what?
[from Trivia-Library.com]
During his long life, Count Leo Tolstoi had been much more than the "angry young man" who turns novelist in order to change things or to better the condition of the oppressed....
May 2, 2013
Leo Tolstoy considered Anna Karenina the first novel he ever wrote, even though he started War and Peace first.
May 1, 2013
"...every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
The next book is our second foray into the world of Leo Tolstoy, and I'm pretty excited about this one. We'll be reading Anna Karenina!
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