Tolstoy swamped

I'm reading Tolstoy's Anna Karenina right now, I should say I was suffering through it for the last few days, but now it's getting interesting (I'm about 1/20th of the way through it, because of how thick the book is, it's still hard to read the words near the fold of the binding. But I swear I've read a lot!) Tanner laughed when I told him where I was and he said that all the girls begin to like the book when Vronsky comes into the story - he's the handsome, dashing gentlemen. I only like it because the love triangle is slowly starting to unfold and there is a bit less talk of everyone's relationship with the rest of society. Although it is quite interesting to read about how ridiculous things were when there was much ado about who married whom in society and all the going-ons of social standings.