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I'm reading Anna Karenina so you don't have to. Here you'll find my recaps, analysis (with a touch of humor) and some pivotal scenes rewritten with a modern tone and first person POV.

All About Anna Karenina: Part 1, ch 24-34 HAIKUS!

Laurel Osterkamp · December 18, 2022

I've decided to switch gears. My chapter summaries take too long for y'all to read, and for me to write. While I still plan to adapt the pivotal scenes into first person POV, the rest of the summaries will be written as haikus. Thus, here is what's left of part one: 11 haikus for ten chapters. (Chapter 30 was too eventful and needed an extra haiku to capture it all.)

Levin goes to see his derelict brother, Nicholay Bro’s thin like a …

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All About Anna Karenina: Part 1, chapters 22 & 23–The Ballroom Scene

Laurel Osterkamp · December 15, 2022

Although I am still only posting about part one of Anna Karenina, reading-wise, I am well into part three. And I can tell you, I still dislike Levin. Vronsky and Anna are okay, but my favorite character by far is Kitty. I find it so interesting the scene where Vronsky and Anna fall in love is mostly seen through her eyes. After adapting it into first person, I got a really good sense of who Kitty is, and she's awesome. But don't take my word for …

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All About Anna Karenina: part 1, ch 19-21

Laurel Osterkamp · December 5, 2022

Chapter 19 Anna and Dolly chat and Anna convinces Dolly to try and forgive Stiva. There’s a bit of foreshadowing when Dolly asks Anna if she could forgive her husband if he ever cheated on her. Anna has to think about it for a few seconds, but then she decides. She’s like, yeah, I could forgive. I’d never be the same, but I could forgive it completely, like it never even happened. Dolly responds:

Chapter …

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All About Anna Karenina: part 1, chapters 16-19

Laurel Osterkamp · December 1, 2022

I'm reading Anna Karenina so you don't have to.

And the story continues, like a slow moving train groaning down the tracks...

Chapter 16

We get a peek inside Vronsky’s mind. He had an absentee father and his mother was “a brilliant society woman, who had had during her married life, and still more afterwards, many love affairs notorious in the whole fashionable world.” In other words, Vronsky’s had no model of a stable …

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All About Anna Karenina: part 1, chapters 10-15

Laurel Osterkamp · November 29, 2022

I'm reading Anna Karenina so you don't have to.

When I told my husband I'd started reading the novel, he said, "Did you lose a bet?" No...but I'm hoping I haven't bitten off more than I can chew. Right now, I'm all about Anna Karenina, and here is my summary/analysis/modern interpretation of part 1, chapters 10-15.

Chapter 10

Levin and Stiva go out for dinner and Stiva gets all fancy, ordering champagne and …

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