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(769/816 = 94%).

701/816 (86% done). Levin and Anna finally meet and meet only once in the entire book.

Sadly, I can see how Tolstoy was getting fed up with this final act as he was writing it.

More farming debates 🔥

Dolly goes to visit Anna and notices Anna regularly narrowing her eyes. I am just now realizing how important eyes are in this book. I need to talk to somebody about this.
(my edition: 628/816, 76.9% done).

Levin goes hunting to prove to himself that he’s still a man. We also had some extremely good passages about farming tax and the nature of just labour 😍

Read in the parking lot at school

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Levin’s brother passes away in what is the most beautiful, haunting, and remorseless passage that underscores the brutal inevitability of death and the possibility of renewal. Just gorgeous writing. Look at this: “No sooner had the one mystery of death been accomplished before his eyes, and gone unfathomed, than another arose, equally unfathomed, which called to love and life” (p. 505). I mean, come on 🤯.

The book is starting to lull a bit … but it’s literally insane that it took 475 pages to slow down. I’d imagine it will pick up again soon when Anna returns to Russia. Right now she’s frolicking about with Vronsky in Italy watching him paint.

Vronsky paints now

Kitty and Levin get married 🥲

We’re so back. I was so bummed out by the Murakami book being mid that I stopped reading for about two and a half weeks. BUT NO LONGER. I read three pages from this book and I have been healed.

Maggie Gyllenhaal directed a movie in 2021 called "The Lost Daughter" starring Jessie Buckley, Dakota Johnson, and Olivia Colman. This book is that movie. I can't explain it any other way. The story is in front of me but I'm trying to find the substance within the different parts. Like, I know there is something there, but I can't see it yet. Did I catch Murakami at a point where he's only writing for himself?