Esmé’s Reviews > Anna Karenina > Status Update

So much drama.....the whiplash from Karenin hoping Anna will die, to their reconciliation, to her being irritated at his presence, to Vronsky shooting himself and somehow surviving, and finally to Karenin deciding to go through with the divorce and Anna saying nah I don't need it and going to Italy with Vronsky????? So much going on. Anyway, back to Levin's pre-marital bliss.

fuuuuuuuck - the real drama of Part 3 is of course Anna's confession to her husband about her love for Vronsky (and also when she told Vronsky that she's pregnant, which I forgot about until he mentioned it again), but the last chapters where Levin and his brother Nikolai are talking and can't acknowledge that Nikolai is dying...that was a different sort of painfulness.

Part 2, Chapter 8: after feeling a bit of longing for the time during 2025 that I was listening to the War and Peace audiobook, I’ve been listening to the Anna Karenina audiobook for the last couple of weeks, and it is SO juicy. FYI the title character doesn’t actually enter until like Chapter 19, 3 hours into the audiobook, but the parallel stories are also great. Super engaging characters, I am enjoying.