Had a calm, relaxing weekend (much-needed), keeping up with #buddyreads for
#Pemberlittens (tagged) ✔️
#Bookedintime ✔️
#Noplacelikeholmes ✔️
#Naturalitsy ✔️
#Midwintersolace ✔️
#FellowshipofTolkein ✔️
Catching up with #SheSaid
@Andrew65 @Cuilin @dabbe @BarkingMadRead @Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Daisey
#hashtagbrigade did you miss me? It‘s time to get your book for January, and get ready for three months of fun and games and hard to pronounce names! #whatcouldgowrong #pemberlittens if you want to be tagged, let me know!!
#AyupAugust
(Day 20 - #Temptation)
*Dmitri Karamazov doesn‘t avoid temptation—he jumps into it full force. A sensualist who loves wine, women, and song, he soon finds himself in need of money. When Dmitri confronts his father over his inheritance, the door is flung wide open for distrust and violence.
Above right is the Optina Monastery, where Dostoevsky took refuge after the death of his son; below is Staraya Russa, the setting of the novel.
#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain
1. Tagged book and just about to start Drive Your Plough by Olga Tokarczuk
2. As in movie adaptation? Hmmm probably the 60s Grigory Kozintsev hamlet film
3. I have Instagram but don‘t post about books on it much, I like scrolling through other people‘s pretty pictures. I use goodreads but mainly for cataloging and reading challenges, I actually started on Litsy cause I was frustrated with goodreads
#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain
1. The Remainder and The Brothers Karamazov
2. Probably The Story of a New Name
3. I‘m looking forward to a lot! Probably Drive Your Plough over the bones of the dead
pickHurrah for Karamazov! I've been reading at breakfast to my daughter...now in high school...since kindergarten. This was our most difficult novel yet; we started on this one 300 days ago!
We really enjoyed it. There were the typical Russian literature struggles: every character has 3 names, and the action doesn't begin to develop until page 400 or so. This translation had good footnotes.
pickWhat an epic novel! Loved it. The fiction, the story telling, the psychology, philosophy, character development all is brilliant. I was scared to read it because of its length but now at the end, am in love with it. This was my first book by Dostoyevsky, I plan on reading more in the future.
so-soWell that was a slog of a listen, 3 weeks for 36+ hours, with basically two straight days at the end to catch up before it was due back at the library. I prefer Dostoyevsky to Tolstoy, but still, dense with a lot of unnecessary ramblings and expositions. #audiobook
The Brothers Karamazov | 
