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I’m really proud of Susanna (age 12, about to be 13). We’ve been moving between one house and another this past week and half, and as I was putting books on a shelf, Susanna asked me which were my favorites. I couldn’t choose a favorite, so I picked my favorites from different regions and time periods around the world. Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment was one of my recommendations, and she has been devouring it. I’ve also been asking her where she is in the book and am really enjoying having my memory jogged.

Susanna reading

From wikipedia, “Crime and Punishment is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky that was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments in 1866. It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoevsky’s full-length novels after he returned from his exile in Siberia, and the first great novel of his mature period. Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished St. Petersburg ex-student who formulates and executes a plan to kill a hated, unscrupulous pawnbroker seemingly for her money, thereby solving his financial problems and at the same time, he argues, ridding the world of an evil worthless parasite.”