No. 151 - Anna Karenina

Back in Post No. 147 I mentioned that I was reading The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks. In the first third of the book, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy was mentioned at least five times. The main character, Ronnie, is reading the book throughout the story.

Today while I was reading The Last Song, a friend of Ronnie pointed to the book she was reading and said, "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." He continued by saying that it was the first sentence in the book. I downloaded Anna Karenina to my Kindle. He was right.

I learned that Anna Karenina is one of the 63 books currently in Oprah's Book Club. It made the list in 2004.  Oprah's website describes the book as:  

An extremely sexy and engrossing read, this book tells the tale of one of the most enthralling love affairs in the history of literature—it truly was the "Harlequin Romance" of its day.