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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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Sep 19, 2024 Nicole rated it liked it

Shelves: cl-book-club

I have such mixed feelings about this book.

It is beautifully written and there was definitely text in the book where I thought to myself “that’s a beautiful (or meaningful) sentence.” And if it wasn’t a library book I would’ve highlighted it in some fashion.

But I am also walking away kind of wondering what the point was? Descriptive and character driven, throughout the book and now at the end, I feel like I’m missing something.

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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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