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maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social
blank verse sonnet about reading ULYSSES
Mkgnao! ulysses chapter four: a cat: of course, a cat. There’s always cats if you decide to look for them. To look at them and think about what they must want, like “scratch my head.” But that’s the cat herself? Or is it Bloom projecting onto her? Or something else? It’s easier with a karenina, extraordinary hunting scene where we begin to drift between their subjectivities and end inside the dog. We know his thoughts direct (or not? I knew them through Pevear and V…). As much about the animals as Joyce and T, I think, ‘cause dogs just tell you things but cats you cannot scrute. I can’t.
January 22, 2026 at 10:25 PM
15c3po.bsky.social
Levin from Anna Karenina?
January 22, 2026 at 8:59 PM
earthkids.bsky.social
So it does in fact look like I'll be attending @futurescapesww.bsky.social this March, which is very exciting for me because I've never attended a writing workshop like that before.

I'm glad they are helping with the query + synopsis because as seen here, I need help there.
Anna Karenina Retelling is joining Futurescapes Writers' workshop. The background is a pink, purple and blue with a small astronaut sitting on a cloud. All four corners have fluffy clouds. The bottom left one has a purple rocketship heading towards a planet that looks like saturn but it is pink, blue and purple. There is also al ittle bunny floating away with star balloons The same background with the four cloudy corners is here but this time it is dark blue and black with a paper tapped over it and the following words: "Thanks to a magical wish-granting meteorite, Kitty Shcherbatskaya wakes up 5 years in the future on the International Apollo-Soyuz Space Station (a.k.a IASS). Rather than return to the present, Kitty attempts some reconnaissance and learns. . .Future Kitty is downright miserable. First of all, she’s engaged to Kosta, the most boring person in the solar system, who’s somehow even more boring thanks to his new “how do olives oxidize in space” obsession. Then second but worse, she never studied astronomy and instead volunteers on the board consisting of society’s meanest girls at a failing modern art gallery. Her one positive is that the man she always wanted to marry, Alexei, is in a failing relationship. This is her second chance to win him back and secure a happy future. So Kitty excuses the fact that her last memory before the meteorite encounter was Alexei abandoning her on the dance floor for Anna Karenina. Kitty decides on a fake dating scheme to make Alexei so jealous that he breaks up with Anna. For this to work, she’ll need the perfect man to fake date. While exploring her options, she crosses paths with Varenka, who knows her from a past she’s now never lived. When Varenka offers to help, Kitty finds herself wanting to spend more time with her rather than committing to the Get-Alexei-Vronsky-back Scheme. But it’s not like she can abandon her second chance for Varenka. Kitty’s seen how the universe has exiled Anna for putting her happiness first by choosing Alexei over her husband. If she focuses on securing a happy future with Alexei she can easily go back to the present where she can erase ever knowing Varenka or she can risk it all and stick around for this person who apparently knows her. " An old image of a space age space station full of greenery and olive trees with people on the ground in space age clothes while Jennifer Garner from 13 Going on 30 dances on top of a building. Underneath it in a blue and black background are the following words: "Featuring: Anna Karenina Retelling Chaotic Bisexuals A very scifi romance Retrofuturism My love for 13 Going on 30 Space Walk Dates That Diary Scene (iykyk) but it’s cool and apparently about as queer as real life Crushes that cruuuush Second Chance Romance Friends to Lovers Fake Dating Make your own destiny 1960s Space Age Fashion Olive Trees in SPACE Wonky Time Travel/Overnight Age Up The same cloudy background but it's light pink and yellow and the top says "For Fans of:" in pink then there are a series of images from left to right: A book cover for Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy that is black and white with faded purple flowers; Chappel Roan in Medieval gear for Good Luck, Babe; the movie poster for 13 Going on 30 with Jennifer Garner dancing in pink pajamas; the book cover for Time and Time again by Chatham Greenfield featuring two individuals sitting by a car gazing at each other; the book cover for Going Bicoast by Dahlia Adler with a girl split in two between New York and the West Coast with a bi color pride flag theme; Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan book cover featuring a girl in a hot dog outfit with other people in costume at an amusement park; the book cover for Imogen, Obiously by Becky Albertalli featuring a girl on a pink college campus. Then at the bottom are the following images: Mabel Pines from Gravity Falls in a blue sweater, Vigilante from Peacemaker in normal clothes, Luna Park from Futurama, Maggie Simpson watching Marge Simpson being hit by a Foucault Pendeulum, Peg from Glass Onion drinking from a red solo cup, Florence Welch from Florence & the Machine on the Everybody Scream album cover
January 22, 2026 at 7:31 PM
kaiserbrown.bsky.social
Ok, but for that part of the season where we're Levin threshing wheat alongside the peasants in Anna Karenina it's really nice. Then the bottom falls out.
aprilglick.bsky.social April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 7h
From @dszymborski.fangraphs.com, on Mets fandom. Too real so real.

“Annotators of doomed worlds.”
The Mets are a bit like an intellectual character in a 19th Century Russian novel. They're well-read enough to understand why life just isn't working, and while they make changes every winter, it always seems to come with the precognition that something will go horribly wrong, and there's little recourse but to observe their own downfall. Yankees fandom is more transactional, and depending on how the season turns out, you either cheer the empire or curse Brian Cashman. Rooting for the Mets is existential; you go into every season with hope, but an unquenchable feeling that something will go horribly or maybe even comically wrong. Meaning as a Mets fan does not come from celebrating the team's achievements, but the act of enduring and returning, year after year, with the knowledge that preparation offers no escape. Mets fans essentially become annotators of doomed worlds.
January 22, 2026 at 6:34 PM
citizenscreen.bsky.social
Director/producer Alexander Korda, Vivien Leigh, and Laurence Olivier at the premiere of
Julien Duvivier’s ANNA KARENINA at Leicester Square Theatre in London on January 22, 1948.
January 22, 2026 at 5:06 PM
katenab.bsky.social
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Bk 1, Ch 22

"Kitty looked into his face, which was such a short distance from hers, and long afterwards, for several years, that look, so full of love, which she gave him then, and to which he did not respond, cut her heart with tormenting shame."

#TolstoyReadalong
January 22, 2026 at 4:19 PM
ma-at.bsky.social
Was so stoked when i tracked these down! The og paperbacks with a porcupine of sticky notes is in another bookshelf :)
Two books spines, both bound in leather or imitation leather. Gilt decoration. Left a book is black with the title Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. Write volume is war in peace by Leo Tolstoy in red leather.
January 22, 2026 at 3:53 PM
classicfilms.bsky.social
78 years ago:
Anna Karenina (UK)
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to...
1948-01-22
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/32066
A poster for Anna Karenina.
January 22, 2026 at 3:09 PM
lilautisticgnome.bsky.social
Omg I love that!! After I finish Dostojevski’s crime & punishment (print 1992), I might begin Anna Karenina 1&2, and these hardbacks were printed in 1948!!
On my TBR I also have Daphne duMaurier’s Rebecca (print 1973) or my illustrated special edition of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley :) 🤍
January 22, 2026 at 12:50 PM
axelknoenagel.bsky.social
Alles in allem hat er wohl 10 Jahre daran gearbeitet, wenn auch mit Unterbrechungen durch kürzere Texte. Bis zu seiner nächsten Romanveröffentlichung hat es wieder 10 Jahre gedauert. Dafür hat "Anna Karenina" auch wieder 1600 Seiten. Die Bücher von Dostojewski sind auch so lang. Ich mag das sehr
January 22, 2026 at 10:47 AM
nemimeli.bsky.social
#TolstoyReadalong

„Kitty sah in sein Gesicht, das ihr so nahe war, und viele Jahre später noch ergriff sie qualvolle Scham, wenn sie an diesen Blick dachte, diesen Blick voll heisser Liebe, mit dem sie ihn damals angeschaut hatte.“

Anna Karenina
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Gemälde von James Tissot.
January 22, 2026 at 10:19 AM
cherryqueengigi.bsky.social
Found a hardcover, leather bound copy of Anna Karenina in the exact translation I want in my apartment's communal library, feel like I've been blessed by a book fairy.
January 22, 2026 at 7:40 AM
daveyh39.bsky.social
Remembering the legendary and commanding Paul Scofield, intensely talented Oscar/Emmy/Tony-winning & Grammy-nominated actor, celebrated for his impeccable craft of Shakespearean and roles in THE TRAIN, A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS, A DELICATE BALANCE, QUIZ SHOW, ANNA KARENINA, and so much more.
January 22, 2026 at 5:52 AM
liberalruralmama.bsky.social
I've read Anna Karenina about once every 15 years since I was 19.

Every time I come to the text as a different person and every reading reveals fresh nuances of itself to me.
January 22, 2026 at 2:20 AM
squidrot.bsky.social
rip anna karenina you would have loved listening to an ipod shuffle while looking outside the backseat window of a car while it’s raining
January 22, 2026 at 1:06 AM
tomione.bsky.social
P&V for anna karenina and then katz for brothers karamazov
January 21, 2026 at 9:39 PM
palomallaneza.com
Tengo un gorro de piel de segunda mano que me compré en Viena a lo Anna Karenina ¿te parece un poco excesivo? El resto lo llevo cubierto siempre como la señora de bien que soy.
January 21, 2026 at 9:31 PM
honeyskeleton.bsky.social
You are very brave. I am still so scared of highlighting anything that is not a cheap paperback. But I think I will reread karenina this year with you
January 21, 2026 at 9:20 PM
nickz2112.bsky.social
I loved this version of Anna Karenina!

And yeah... I totally agree. Whenever I read one of these classic russian novels I'm always surprised about how prescient they are.
January 21, 2026 at 8:51 PM
ypiutiminelle.bsky.social
(1/3)
Daily book checkup!
Audiobook🎧📚💙 🖋️📚💙 : "Anna Karenina" (End) Such a shame that the last hour was kind of a slog, but the end is worth it in my opinion ! This book was a masterpiece, and I was waiting to hate it at any moment, it never hapened. It's incredibly modern for the time.
#booksky
January 21, 2026 at 7:45 PM
sosaysnancy.bsky.social
Heather O'Neill revisited the classic Tolstoy novel Anna Karenina to find new meaning after a life change. #booksky www.cbc.ca/books/thenex...
What does it mean if your ex-boyfriends love Anna Karenina? | CBC Books
The Montreal author stopped by The Next Chapter to discuss why re-reading the Tolstoy classic helped her better understand love and relationships.
www.cbc.ca
January 21, 2026 at 7:19 PM
tomione.bsky.social
my highlighter isn’t gonna make it to the end of anna karenina but because i refuse to have a different color i will be running it under water and still using it
January 21, 2026 at 4:37 PM
katenab.bsky.social
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Bk 1, Ch 21

"There was nothing either extraordinary or strange in a man calling at his friend's house at half-past nine to find out the details of a dinner that was being planned and not coming in; but they all thought it strange."

#TolstoyReadalong
January 21, 2026 at 4:37 PM
apocalypsecarousel.bsky.social
I did because I felt bad for Karenina.
January 21, 2026 at 2:01 PM