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Update from japanese Paradise: I love it and I will miss the Okinawan beach🙈 also: my boyfriend finished an entire book whithin the last four days- the first one he read since I know him, which is almost five years, which makes me very happy! It‘s a Simon Beckett thriller, and he even started the next one! I also read it (pictured) and it was very intriguing indeed! Also: I‘ve finally finished Anna Karenina - successfull holiday I‘d say😁

Thanks for the tag @Hestapleton #humpdaypost
1. Been to France (jealous if you have)
2. Read Anna Karenina 😱
3. Read all of the Harry Potter books 😱😱
4. Visited the Area 51 👽 (or have I?) 😂

One of my all time favorites. This book has it all. Everyone should read Anna Karenina!

I‘m at chapter 22 & having a hard time sticking with this one! I‘ve heard so many amazing things about this book, & I‘ve wanted to read it for years, but it‘s pretty slow right now.
Is it worth it guys?!?

“All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shadow.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoy totally captured my heart with his beautiful writing (assuming translations did his books justice) I cannot recommend this enough! It‘s more than a love story, it‘s also about family & choices you make in life. Amazing how it‘s still relevant now as it was then! #LetsTravelJuly #Russia #Quotes #bookquote #PenguinClassics #booknerd

This was the first thing that popped into my head when I saw today‘s prompt for #LetsTravelJuly #Russia

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

💖💖💖💖

It has been some time since I‘ve shared anything here .. But I am back now and with a huge book I have been waiting for so long to read. 😍

#QuotsyJuly19 Day 7: #Deceit

I tried to use only Barnes & Noble leather bound classics for this one, but it turns out I don‘t have many white leather books, so I had to improvise a little. #ColorMePretty #RedWhiteAndBlue @Sweetkokoro

#gaze #quotsyjune19 @TK-421

This is Literature.

Tolstoy paints scenes well enough and develops the plot sufficiently (important for a 750 page book), but his real talent lies in understanding and describing the inner lives of his characters. The motivations, thoughts, and interactions are so real and so incredibly varied.

Glad I finally got around to it.

"He could only think of her as triumphant, successful in her menace of a wholly useless remorse never to be effaced."

With 30 pages left, that about sums it up.

"Lord have mercy on us!... He repeated the words that for some reason came suddenly to his lips. And he, an unbeliever, repeated these words not with his lips only. At that instant he knew that all his doubts, even the impossibility of believing with his reason, of which he was aware in himself, did not in the least hinder his turning to God... To whom was he to turn if not to Him in whose hands he felt himself, his soul, and his love?"

"The sun had fully risen, though unseen behind the storm-clouds. The moon had lost all of its luster, and was like a white cloud in the sky. Not a single star could be seen. The sedge, silvery with dew before, now shone like gold. The stagnant pools were all like amber. The blue of the grass had changes to yellow-green."

Part VI Chapter XII is an excellent morning scene in the country. Tolstoy lacks nothing in description.

"A wife is a care, but it's worse when she's not a wife."

"Countess Lidia Ivanovna usually wrote some two or three letters a day to Alexey Alexandrovitch. She enjoyed that form of communication, which gave opportunity for a refinement and air of mystery not afforded by their personal interviews."

19th century texting

"The hotel... was one of those provincial hotels which are constructed on the newest model of modern improvements, with the best intentions of cleanliness, comfort, and even elegance, but owing to the public that patronizes them, are with astounding rapidity transformed into filthy taverns with a pretension of modern improvement that only makes them worse than the old-fashioned, honestly filthy hotels."
???

"Levin had been married three months. He was happy, but not at all in the way he had expected to be... On entering upon family life he saw at every step... what a man would experience who, after admiring the smooth, happy course of a little boat on a lake, should get himself into that little boat. He saw it was not all sitting still, floating smoothly... that doing it, though very delightful, was very difficult."

This is a classic for a reason.

"Twenty years ago he would have found in that literature traces of conflict... He would have perceived from this conflict that there was something else; but now he comes at once upon a literature in which the old creeds do not even furnish matter for discussion, but it is stated baldly that there is nothing else - evolution, natural selection, struggle for existence - and that's all..."

Ah, the old conservative in me appreciates this rant.

I'm glad I attended two Orthodox weddings last year (albeit Greek and Eastern, not Russian). I understood the wedding scene completely!

"He saw nothing but death or the advance towards death in everything. But his cherished scheme only engrossed him the more. Life had to be got through somehow till death did come. Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength."

#WanderingJune #Russians
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wHylQRVN2Qs

A novel by a Russian and set in Russia 🇷🇺
A beautifully rendered story about the pressures of society and how scandal can ruin lives. Lovely movie, too; starring my favorite actress Kiera Knightley!

The #Russians I found on my shelves

I‘ve read Anna Karenina and The Master and Margarita.

I started War and Peace years ago and read 1/3 but then the summer vacation ended and I didn‘t have time to read it together with all my curriculum for uni. Maybe time to pick this up again sometime soon.

The other two are still on my #tbr. Someday

#WanderingJune

“Happy families are all alike; Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

#30JuneBooks : #PrettyBooks
For me, every book is beautiful and this is one of them, beautiful both inside and out 😍 Read it last year (wish I read it earlier) & it has such an impact on me! Tolstoy‘s writing about Life, Love, Death & Politics are insightful & beautiful, so relatable despite it was written hundred years ago. And this #VintageClassics is so gorgeous!
#ClassicsRead #Bibliophile #Classics #booknerd

This book is truly magnificent. I don‘t say this about many romance novels, but this makes my top 5. My only complaint is that we didn‘t get more of Kitty and Levin 😂💕

"No, you're a lucky man! You've got everything you like..."
"Perhaps because I rejoice in what I have, and don't fret for what I haven't..."

I think this is probably a meme or a bumper sticker somewhere. Or something like it, at least.

"He resolved from that day he would give up hoping for any extraordinary happiness, such as marriage must have given him, and consequently he would not disdain what he really had. Secondly, he would never again let himself give way to low passion, the memory of which had so tortured him when he had been making up his mind to make an offer [of marriage]."

Ugh, I feel that in the lower moments.

It came and what a beautiful cover! My bookclub pick for Sept.😉

#faves

Compiled a list of novels about marriages on the rocks. Makes for some juicy reading. Check it out!

https://bookriot.com/2019/05/16/books-about-complicated-marriages/

@bookriot #amwriting #amreading #recommendedreading #mustreadbooks

I couldn‘t put it down- poor Anna!

OK, I promise, Last post!
Going to end my weekend by watching this #Classics. I've always wanted to watch this movie because of the cast & I've finally finished reading this book last year! So can't wait to see how this adaptation is! Have anyone watched this? Do you prefer the book or movie?
I love this book so much but some of the farming parts are bit too long😑🙈 Hope this movie does it justice.
#BookToMovie #MayMadness #bibliophile #booknerd

This came across my library rss dash today. I love Worldcat. I have read 27 of these. Which is not bad considering I'm French Canadian. It's pretty much anglo-american centric.

Anna Karenina is the one I'm reading from this list on and off these days.

#library100novels
https://www.oclc.org/en/worldcat/library100.html

Anna Karenina is one of the more annoying and shallow characters I‘ve come across. I can understand a desperate woman making bad decisions but that continuous appeal to feel sorry for her. Even if I tried I couldn‘t. She has all the characteristics one would dislike in a person.

#shallow #AMonthofSongs

I‘m not trying to get political, but all this talk of Russia has made me want to read some Russian literature – some classic, some modern. The picture shows what I have read so far. Any suggestions for my TBR list?

Day 1 of #SpringIntoReading : #FooledYou
Don't be fooled by the genre of this book or its size. It's actually very readable despite the fact that it's a Classics ...and very enjoyable with lots of characters, some you love & adore (& they might NOT be the one on the title😬) and some you hate 😩
Thank you once again to
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @vkois88
for all these fun book challenges 🙌💗
#classicsread #booknerd #bibliophile

#quotsymar19 #intelligent

#springhassprung #literaryluck

We're in the process of getting a new kitchen and my mum is moving to a new flat so the last couple of weeks have been busy and it'll probably be the same until the kitchen is done. I've only been reading easier and shorter books for a few weeks now so I think it's time to get back to working on my #chunkster challenge for #aroundtheyearin52books and I'm hoping this great book will keep me entertained!

Vronsky: I love you!
Anna: Why?
Vronsky: You can't ask Why about love!

Listening on audio from Libby during my bus rides from taking and picking up my son from school however I keep zoning out.. should I find a different version of the book

@Eggs #WondrousWednesday

1. Peach! 🍑

2. Anna Karenina

3. Watchmen

4. I can barely see myself from a day to the other because of how tired I am generally 🤣 I try to think of life day by day!

1. Yes, my husband and I made an actual written bucket list! It‘s mostly places we want to go.
2. Yes! Going to the Grand Canyon is on the list and my parents recently moved out west, so I‘m hoping to go when I visit them.
3. Hmm...my comfort zone is pretty big so anything outside it is probably something I really shouldn‘t do 😂
4. I really want to read it — I‘m just gathering the mental fortitude!

#hellothursday

The pile of laundry I put off folding because I wanted to finish this very long book about a bunch of whiny rich people. Yes it's a classic that most people love, I didn't. Started out enjoying but it became a slog towards the end. I just wanted it off my nightstand. Glad to be done. Marking off my TBR and moving on to happier reading.
#yallloveditididnt 😏

Anna Karenina is home. The book website i ordered from sent a free book along (wrapped in brown). It was a delight to open it and see what they chose: it's Katherine Howard - The Tragic Story of Henry VIII's Fifth Queen.

#usedbooks