Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

one sentence summary:
a woman has an affair
review:
for once my hatred of the characters did not transfer to hatred of the novel, actually I loved it and I loved to hate the characters in it. I loved their pettiness and their, well their humanity I guess is how you would say it. A fascinating look at an era of elitism written about with such brilliance that you fell as though you have travelled back in time and are living in high society. I recommend any one with any interest in history check this novel out, but read it in small parts, in my experience reading it all in one go makes the characters completely deplorable, in small doses they are very human (like that relative everyone tries to avoid at family gatherings).
8/10

memorable quotes:
"If you look for perfection, you'll never be content."

"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

"Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed. "