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Originally Posted by drofgnal
Im also in a bit of a reading slump. Maybe something about the holiday season, I never seemed to have much time to sit down and enjoy my book. I was reading Anna Karenin, but lack of time bogged me down. I enjoyed what I read, but the book requires some investment and the spotty time I had to devote to it didn't really help. I've done what others in this thread have said and moved on to something I know, so I'm rereading the Hobbit. I may move on to LOTR afterward, or return to Anna Karenin, I'm undecided. Probably Anna, but I'll probably start from the beginning.
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I am currently reading
Anna Karenina. I had been determined to read it in 2022, but life happened, and I started listening to the audiobook on January 1. Before that, I had read nothing for months--I had a difficult, tiring 2022, and when I had downtime, I didn't want to read; I wanted to stare at mindless TV. When things eased up, I found I was out of the habit of reading, and still preferred mindless TV (and I really mean
mindless). I thought
Anna would jumpstart me--that I'd be motivated to finish it so I could read some nice little domestic thriller--but that's not happening. I've read a few chapters a day of
Anna, and I'm only about halfway through Part Three (of eight).
The audiobook is actually good--it's the Maude translation with Wanda McCaddon as the narrator. The language seems sufficiently modern, and I don't have to deal with the strange-to-me names that defy pronunciation, which has been a stumbling block in my previous halfhearted attempts to read
Anna. I'm enjoying it, not just feeling virtuous about finally reading the darn thing after blowing it off in high school back in the Dark Ages. But I still don't want to read more than a few chapters at a time.