Book Club Reads The Gentleman from Moscow DATE CHANGE

Our meeting last night was a huge success. We had a lively discussion, snacks and a marvelous cherry crumble from Debi! Next month Teri has offered to bring dessert.

We tabled the idea of breaking for the summer as those in attendance were unlikely to stop reading for summer so on we go!

There were 9 folks last night, which gives credence to Linda's idea that if 20 RSVP 10 will show. The next book is going to be very yummy and satisfying. It's reader Nancy's favorite book of all time!

We have an interesting and diverse group of people with varied perspectives and opinions. We came out with at least one common thought on the book and that was that investigation on the brink of technology was very different than the crime novels of today! For the most part, I think we would not choose this book again, but as an oddity that helped set the stage for authors like Stieg Larson, it was a worthwhile read to see what qualified as award winning crime fiction in 1965.

MORE ABOUT A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW:

The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers, soon to be a Showtime/Paramount series starring Ewan McGregor as Count Alexander Rostov

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Rules of Civility, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel.

In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.

Brimming with humor, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count’s endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose.