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A Gentleman in Moscow

Amor Towles

Finish date: January 25, 2017

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May 05, 2021 Roxy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: buddy-reads

Life affirming. Full of heart. A guidebook on how to live. I know count The Count as one of my best literary friends, and this book as one of my favourite books ever.

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Dec 23, 2019 Julianne Dunn rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2020-read-harder

The concept of "spinning a yarn" has always appealed to me as it's one of those idioms that's perfectly understandable and also very visual. As you spin yarn, you are trapped more and more. You can't get out. You don't really want to get out. You are ever more threaded into the yarn and are entranced. This book is exactly like that. A story told from The Count's 30th year until his 70s (maybe 60s), it is about his life of "exile" in the Metropol hotel and how, rather than let the circumstances s ...more

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May 11, 2020 Megan Neumann rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I really enjoyed this book! It was not an age-old story that has been told over and over again. Something new! And a great ending, which is more and more unusual these days!

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