8. Alan Jacobs: How to Get More Pleasure Out of Your Reading
The Reader's Journey
Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
I read Anna Karenina for the first time when I was in grad school. It's a great book. And then many years later, I came across a passage that brought tears to my eyes. The whole structure of the novel seemed to change for me because of the different phase of life that I was in. To be the parent of a child is to be vulnerable to everything that happens to that child. That's what Levin wasn't anticipating but it hits him like a ton of bricks.
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