Anna Karenina

Doodle zone

Doodleblog (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009

"Boredom: the desire for desires." Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, 1877

Blahs

The long road to medical school (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009

... in the cool air. 2. Making dinner together with my husband every night. 3. Reading 5 pages of Anna Karenina before I go to bed each (most) night(s). 4. Doing biostats problem sets. Becoming completely focused and lost in the subject. Solving new problems successfully. 5. Walking to school. If I get up early enough there aren't hoards of undergrads around and it can be very peaceful....

Friday Firsts (on a Sunday)

Just One More Page... (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009

... 6. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 7. Riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodious vicious of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. James Joyce, Finnegans Wake 8. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. George Orwell,...

Urban Planner: November 5, 2009

Torontoist (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

... film begins with the North American premiere of a (proudly) Russian version of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina . The film festival runs until November 8, and the program reads like a treasure trove for lovers of Russian cinema. Offerings include the difficult documentary Process , ‘80s rock music cult film Assa and the new sequel Assa 2 , Ukraine Cossak epic Taras Bulba , and...

Pop culture titans Winfrey, Perry throw their weight behind movie from book

Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

TORONTO - Oprah Winfrey did not write "The Bluest Eye" or "Middlesex" or "Love in the Time of Cholera." But her formidably influential book club has helped many an author - alive or dead, famous or no - reach a wider audience. (Sample thank-you note from the beyond: "Oprah, thanks for your support of 'Anna Karenina.' Leo.") Now the multinational...

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Pop culture titans Winfrey, Perry throw their weight behind movie from book

KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009

TORONTO - Oprah Winfrey did not write "The Bluest Eye" or "Middlesex" or "Love in the Time of Cholera." But her formidably influential book club has helped many an author - alive or dead, famous or no - reach a wider audience. (Sample thank-you note from the beyond: "Oprah, thanks for your support of 'Anna Karenina.' Leo.") Now the multinational...

illiterate

god is a giant crab (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009

... headphones). Here's my list. I think it's around 90 books. one flew over the cuckoos nest anna karenina the grapes of wrath crime and punishment war and peace Lolita the communist manifesto the invisible man heart of darkness a room with a view cat on a hot tin roof middlemarch of mice and men frankenstein the turn of the screw baby doll breakfast at tiffany's the beautiful and the damned...