KareninaWinter

February | Ellen Jackson

I have a feeling that I‘ll do better in March, but February wasn‘t too bad of a reading month. My biggest success was finishing Anna Karenina for the #KareninaWinter buddy read. Better late than never! #chunkster 😅
(March 2, 2025)

MemoirsForMe Yay! Congrats on conquering Anna K! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🍾🥂 1w

PurpleyPumpkin @MemoirsForMe Congrats to you too! That was quite the challenge. Whew!😅 6d

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julieclair

Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy

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I‘m not equipped to judge whether or not this is “the greatest novel ever written”, as has been alleged. But it did make me think a lot. It covers just about every human emotion in its pages, and many social, religious, and philosophical ideas as well. I‘m glad I read it, but won‘t be rereading it again anytime soon!

Many thanks to @TheBookHippie for hosting the #KareninaWinter buddy read, as I would never, ever have read this on my own.

julieclair Thanks, too, @TheBookHippie for your encouragement along the way! 💙 #AllergicToChunksters #ChunksterChallenge2025 @Amiable 4w

TheBookHippie Awe!!!!! Yay you finished!!!!! Bravo!!! 4w

julieclair @TheBookHippie 💙🎉💙 4w

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dabbe 🙌🏻❣️🙌🏻 4w

Amiable I feel the same way —I‘m glad I finally read it but I won‘t be reading it again! 4w

mcctrish 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 once is enough 4w

mhillis It‘s such a good book! If you‘re up for a retelling —

Anna K

BooksandCoffee4Me Oh, I loved this but that ending… 4w

julieclair @dabbe @Amiable @mcctrish 💙💙💙 4w

julieclair @mhillis I didn‘t know there was a retelling! Anna K sounds fun… and it‘s only 400 pages long. 😂👍 I think I‘d enjoy reading it… but I‘ll wait a year or so…😉 4w

julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me I know, right?! 4w

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Amiable

Anna Karenina | Tolstoy, Leo

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Completed the Chunkster level for #ChunksterChallenge2025. I‘d give it a pick because it is a story well told (and well translated, if you get the P+V version). I wouldn‘t say it‘s the “greatest novel of all time,” as some reviews call it. It does provide an interesting historical context of its time. And now I can finally check it off my list. ✔️

#kareninawinter
#chunksterchallenge

monalyisha I *loved* this when I read it. But that was over 15 years ago! If I remember correctly, I may have even mentioned Levin in my internet dating profile (something about a “sweaty, lean farmer with metaphysical concerns”?). 😅🥵 1mo

Amiable @monalyisha If I were going to pick a sweaty Russian out of the bunch, it would definitely be Levin! 😄 And I also loved Kitty. Anna, not so much. I actually felt sorry for Karenin. Stiva and Vronsky were basically Russian frat boys -- ugh. 1mo

CoverToCoverGirl Congratulations! 🎉 I have attempted this book several times but could never get past the first handful of chapters. 1mo

Amiable @CoverToCoverGirl The fact that the chapters are all pretty short is basically what propelled me through some of the sections, I'm not gonna lie. 😃 I could read two chapters (i.e. 5 pages) and feel like I'd accomplished something for the day. 1mo

willaful Liking Levin is pretty much all I remember from this book. 😂 1mo

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Amiable

Anna Karenina | Tolstoy, Leo

Slowly making my way through this book, and just reached Part 4. Stumbled upon this phrase that made me literally laugh out loud. And also wish I could read Russian so I could enjoy it in the original text. 😄

#kareninawinter

@TheBookHippie @Cuilin @julieclair @kspenmoll @MemoirsForMe @Librarybelle @PurpleyPumpkin

ChaoticMissAdventures 🤣😂🤣 2mo

Cuilin lol 😆 2mo

TheBookHippie I KNOW!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 2mo

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MemoirsForMe I need to read your version! It‘s much spicier than mine. ☺️🤣🤣🤣 2mo

Librarybelle 😂 2mo

Amiable @MemoirsForMe @thebookhippie Not just any big, green, waxy cucumber— a DUTCH one! Whatever that means. 😄 2mo

TheBookHippie @Amiable I have so many not nice things to say 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 the Dutch religious extremist here have a pickle factory if that helps 🤣🙄😅🤪😵‍💫😂😬🫠😩 2mo

TheBookHippie @MemoirsForMe 🤣🤣🤣🤣 2mo

Amiable @TheBookHippie Ha ha!! 🤣 2mo

Amiable @MemoirsForMe My translation is the P&V version! 😀 2mo

LeahBergen 🥒😆😆 2mo

Tamra 😜bahahaha 2mo

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Amiable

Challenges | Serge Lang

My stack for the various challenges I am attempting to tackle:

1. Tolstoy: #kareninawinter, #chunksterchallenge2025 (848 pgs) and #fictionaltraveler (somewhere cold)
2. Dissolution: ##BookedInTime (Tudor England) and #fictionaltraveler (somewhere English)
3. Bourdain: #AuldLangSpine2025
4. The Cancer Factory: #DiseaseoftheMonthBookClub
5. King: #Nonfiction2025

ChaoticMissAdventures Eig's King is so good! Very readable and it feels incredibly balanced. 2mo

Amiable @ChaoticMissAdventures I‘m so glad to hear that! 2mo

Tamra I really enjoyed Anna when I read it years ago! I don‘t remember the details, but I recall it was engaging. (edited) 2mo

Amiable @Tamra I‘m enjoying it more than “War & Peace,” for sure! 😀 2mo

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