Comments on: Lot’s Wife by Anna Akhmatova

By: rinabeana

rinabeana — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:15:28 +0000

The only good thing about the 1.5 hours I spend in the car daily is the rate at which I whiz through audiobooks. I’ve also listened to audiobooks in the house while making baby blankets. I can read a book in less time than I can listen to it, but I’ve been spending so much time cooking/baking that I haven’t been reading as much as I sometimes do.

By: Philip

Philip — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:19:10 +0000

I don’t think “Anna Karenina” could be the same book at all for even a precocious 7th-grader and an adult. Maybe even not the same book for a man and a woman, though much of the book uncovered a shared human experience despite enormous differences in class, region, age, and gender.

Since my commute by car or bus is rather brief, the only two audio books I’ve listened to were the second installment of Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” series, on a long family vacation (wonderful for the car!) and “Desolation Island” by Patrick O’Brian, another of my favorite authors, just for the experience of “hearing” the story as read by Patrick Tull.

By: rinabeana

rinabeana — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:35:50 +0000

Philip,

I forgot to mention that Anna Karenina is one of a very short list of books that I started but never finished. Granted, I was in seventh grade (12-13 years old). (Of course, my younger sister read the whole thing in seventh grade, so what does that say?) Anyway, I have always kept it on my list, and I’m glad my online book club has chosen it. I’m listening to an audio version, narrated by Davina Porter, and translated by Constance Garnett. I’m on disc 6/30 and enjoying it so far!

By: Philip

Philip — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:03:13 +0000

I read Anna Karenina for the first time last January for my on-line book club, in the newish Pevear & Volokhnosky translation. Nothing but amazing. Immediately went high on my ‘all-time favorites’ list.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/151.Anna_Karenina