Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just open your current read to a random page and share a few sentences. Be careful not to include spoilers!
Still working on Anna Karenina (and I will be for a little while longer!). Today I had to give you this noteworthy teaser…
…she felt such terror at what she had done, that she could not face it; but, like a woman, could only try to comfort herself with lying assurances that everything would remain as it always had been, and that it was possible to forget the fearful question…
From Part 2, chapter 23. Anybody else a little offended?
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pagesofjulia 
Great teaser!
Jeeze, I feel offended as a woman. lol. Thanks for sharing.
My teaser: http://readingandwritingurbanfantasy.blogspot.com/2012/01/teaser-tuesday-7-unknown-by-rachel.html
There’s definitely a thread of misogynism running through this book.
Fantastic! I have yet to read this classic, but I like the sound of that quote. Thanks for sharing. My teaser is here.
You can’t beat the classics, even though the attitudes of the time were so wrong. Still a good story.
Here’s my teaser: Sandy’s Teaser
[…] into jealousy and insanity. I recognize the misogyny in this book (for example, see my earlier Tuesday Teaser), and perhaps it should be interpreted as a compliment to Tolstoy that it was so convincing: Anna […]
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