Reading; sleeping; fasting; and dollars, but no cents…

I am proceeding nicely through Anna Karenina and finding it surprisingly accessible, which may have something to do with the fact that the translators, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, of the version I’m reading won the Pen/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for their work. 60 pages down, 757 to go. Who’s counting? The ongoing State budget … Read more