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A Gentleman in Moscow

Amor Towles

Start date: July 1, 2018

Finish date: July 31, 2020

Discussion: 2020 Monthly Reads

Why we're reading this: July 2020 group read for "a book set in an Olympic city"
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Apr 06, 2020 Maryam rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction, audiobook

I really enjoyed this book, such a heartwarming, well-written story.

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Jun 19, 2017 Rachel rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: historical-fiction, best-sellers, favorites

I want to hang out with the Gentleman in Moscow! He's so classy, caring, calm, funny... great taste in food and wine. I listened to this on audiobook and the narrator is terrific. The story is absolutely lovely! I can see how some may find it a bit slow as there is no big drama, but it is a wonderful story of life, and how one can still remain optimistic and a good person even when things are taken away. And in the end, many of the things that were discussed in detail earlier in the novel all co ...more

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Dec 23, 2019 Julianne Dunn rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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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