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Adaptation in a time of Revolution

A gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

July 24, 2022 by persnickety chick Leave a Comment

This was my IRL book club’s choice for our July meeting.  At some point in June, the book was bought, but it was not on my Kindle.  I had not read it until yesterday when i realised i had a week to do so, and apparently it is long. I finished it in an afternoon. It also fits into the CBR bingo space of adaptation (camel). It is the story of Count Alexsander Rostov, who returned to Russia in 1918 from Paris, ensured his grandmother […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Amor Towles, cbr14bingo, Moscow (Russia)

persnickety chick's CBR14 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Amor Towles, cbr14bingo, Moscow (Russia) ·
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Going West by Heading East

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

June 3, 2022 by 1000Oysters Leave a Comment

The Lincoln Highway was the first Trans-continental highway for cars in the United States. Between Laramie, WY and Cheyenne, WY on I-80, there is a bust of Abraham Lincoln that originally marked the highest point of elevation on the Lincoln Highway between New York and San Francisco. None of that is relevant in The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles, I just like the fun factedness of it all. Eighteen-year-old Emmett and eight-year-old Billy Watson have nothing to hold them to the farm in Nebraska. Their father […]

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1000Oysters's CBR14 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Amor Towles ·
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The Road More Traveled By

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

November 2, 2021 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

Earlier this year I finally got around to reading Amor Towles’s second novel, A Gentleman in Moscow. I don’t know why I put it off for so long. It’s an engaging story replete with memorable characters and events, but even more, it’s a profound look at life and what makes it worth living. Despite the constraint of setting nearly the entire novel within a single hotel, Towles managed to portray a life full of love and friendship, heartbreak and redemption. It’s a major work of […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Amor Towles

jeverett15's CBR13 Review No:48 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Amor Towles ·
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Hotel Life

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

May 3, 2021 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

Count Alexander Rostov fully expects to be sentenced to be shot by the revolutionary tribunal, but due to their admiration for a poem he had published years before the Count’s life is spared. Their generosity has limits, however. Rostov, a resident of the luxurious Metropol Hotel in Moscow, is ordered to remain within the hotel for life. Arriving back at the hotel, the Count is informed that his former suite has been requisitioned by the State and he will have to make due with the […]

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jeverett15's CBR13 Review No:21 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Amor Towles ·
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“By the smallest of actions one can restore some order in the world.”

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

February 9, 2021 by Halbs 2 Comments

This was an audiobook listen for me, narrated by the wonderful Nicholas Guy Smith. It was also something of a journey. It took me most of 2020 and a month of 2021 to finish this fine novel. It took me so long not because it was a chore to listen, but precisely because it was  a great story. It takes time to make sense of those. It was a great read for last year because of both plot and theme. The plot’s connection to 2020 […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Amor Towles, Russia

Halbs's CBR13 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Amor Towles, Russia ·
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Amazon’s Forward Collection is half-apocalyptic, half Black Mirror

Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemisin

Ark by Veronica Roth

Rand0m1ze by Andy Weir

You Have Arrived at Your Destination by Amor Towles

The Last Conversation by Paul Tremblay

Summer Frost by Blake Crouch

January 28, 2021 by postcardsandbooks Leave a Comment

So I downloaded the 6 novellas that make up Amazon’s new Forward Collection, which appears to be a collection of sci-fi short stories by known authors (even though I have never anything by most of them). You can read them for free if you’re a Prime customer. I decided I will read them one each morning over a week and review them as I read them, but wait to post all reviews in one post. I will do it this way because these are short, and […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Amor Towles, Andy Weir, Blake Crouch, n.k. jemisin, Paul Tremblay, Veronica Roth

postcardsandbooks's CBR13 Review No:12 · Genres: Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Amor Towles, Andy Weir, Blake Crouch, n.k. jemisin, Paul Tremblay, Veronica Roth ·
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