—Oh stop, Eve said. It’s dreadful. What is it? —Virginia Woolf. —Ugh. Tinker brought home all these novels by women as if that’s what I needed to get me back on my feet. He’s surrounded my bed with them. It’s as if he’s planning to brick me in. Isn’t there anything else? Rules of Civility left m...
An enjoyable and engrossing romp through 1930's New York City, with a guide I'd love to have as a friend. Katey Kontent (pronounced KonTENT), of Russian descent and literary bent, is smart, independent, and funny. I wish I had time to go back through and copy out some quotes...there were so many goo...
I honestly didn't expect the book to be so good. Well, coming after Water for Elephants, any book would be, but oh my, this guy can write. Not only is the plot excellent, but Amor Towles has style, some sort of personal touch I'm very much in like with. And he can shape characters!I liked Tinker and...
”She was indisputably a natural blonde. Her shoulder-length hair, which was sandy in summer, turned golden in the fall as if in sympathy with the wheat fields back home. She had fine features and blue eyes and pinpoint dimples so perfectly defined that it seemed like there must be a small steel cabl...
Very quickly while reading this book I determined that I did not like the author's style of writing. Descriptions and even formatting felt clunky and irritating. The characters are rather unlikable for me, I for some reason cannot get behind someone who wastes what is left of their money on drinking...
Rules of Civility has been floating on the periphery of my reading list for a while now, over a year. I even checked it out from the library once and then returned it without ever reading it. I'm not sure why, perhaps the synopsis just didn't grab me or I wasn't in the mood for something heavy. And ...
I didn't hate it as I expected; in fact, I ended up reading it in one sitting. It's hard to give a summary because honestly, nothing much happens. And while I think the story was interesting and lovely and readable, there were a few things that infuriated me, which I will now outline:1. Katey is an ...
Clever, charming, rich in its view of old New York. Well plotted, what seem like sudden twists are set up often chapters before. If there was any flaw it was the characters, they are a bit staged for my liking, always shooting for the perfect aphorism, until they become just vehicles for that perspe...
Loved...loved...loved it. This book was able to transport me back to the end of the 1930's. Right before World War II and the end of the Depression. I saw New York City in all of it's glory and met some characters that I won't soon forget.
“I think we all have some parcel of the past which is falling into disrepair or being sold off piece by piece. It’s just that for most of us, it isn’t an orchard; its the way we’ve thought about something, or someone.”Reviewers have called Rules of Civility a love letter to New York City, but I feel...
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