I'm sensing a theme here...

Challenge #2: Read a Serious Russian Novel.


The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Page Count: 0/? (I'm reading this on Kindle so thankfully I don't know how many hundreds of pages I have left to go)


I'm reading Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot for February. And I'm not going to lie, I've already started the first few chapters. I knew I wanted to read something by Dostoyevsky for this month's challenge, but I wasn't sure which one. I spent an entire lunch break in Kramer Books flipping through their selection. Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov were too long, and Notes from an Underground couldn't catch my attention in just a few chapters.

But The Idiot could, and did.

The Idiot tells the story of Prince Myshkin, a young man whom we meet on a train heading to St. Petersburg. Myshkin has just left Switzerland, where he lived for 4 years receiving treatment for his "fits" (we learn that Myshkin has epilepsy later). Myshkin knows almost no-one in St. Petersburg, but according to the summary he'll soon find himself in love with multiple women. It'll be interesting to see what happens next. Hopefully Dostoyevsky's writing won't put me to sleep!