A review by maggieshalloe
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

5.0

I’m so glad I read this book, even if at times it was kind of a trudge through certain topics! Tolstoy did tend to linger on certain thoughts for a long time, but that being said the book was paced really well and had this modern feel to it. I learned a lot about society & what a woman’s place would have been in those times, and I really felt for Anna being in such an impossible situation. From the first chapter I had this odd fondness for Stepan and Dolly, and I soon had this same sentimental feeling towards all of the main players. Levin frustrated me at times with his failure to make his mind up about what he felt or what he believed, but towards the end I found myself relating to him in many ways.