(via Book to series adaptation: 'A Gentleman in Moscow' by Amor Towles)

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A word or two about, and from, some great writers. Lots to consider on my blog today. Enjoy...

I’ve been reading, A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles and enjoying the story as much as I did one of his other books, The Lincoln Highway. His writing style is most engaging, and sprinkled with witticisms and wisdom. Most of the wry comments in this story come from the “gentleman”, and here’s one that made me smile. It’s in a scene where another character is showing him an American magazine…

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La Autopista Lincoln

¿Libro de roadtip? Sí ¿Un libro de literatura estadounidense? Sí, sí ¿Libro de Amor Towles? Sí que sí ¿Historia iniciática? Re-sí ¿Amor Towles escribiendo una historia americana, acerca de una iniciación y un road trip? ¡Sí, que sí, que sí! ¿Dónde les firmo y cuándo empiezo? Esto es La Autopista Lincoln, la última novela de uno de mis autores favoritos.  Uno que hasta Bill Gates en persona…

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»Beim laut Lesen passiert immer etwas!«

Drei überzeugende Stimmen tragen durch die über 15-stündige Road Novel »Lincoln Highway« von Amor Towles. Eine davon gehört dem Schauspieler und Sprecher Julian Greis, der mit seiner wilden Figur einen Heidenspaß gehabt hat. Im Interview spricht er über die Vorzüge dieses Romans und sein Leben vor und hinter den Texten. Read the full article

Today's #blogpost contains: - how I use of my #sketchbook and #marcusaurelius to help me deal with a difficult time and maintain #creativity - my #artexhibit currently @auroragallery44 and doing the #businessofart even when - or perhaps because it helps to do so - during hard times. - an effort at a #drawing demonstration for @love_to_draw_nil using #pencils - the title of a comforting and happily distracting #fiction #book I'm #reading by #amortowles Here's the link - https://sueclancy.com/emotions-exhibits-drawings-and-books/ (at Vancouver, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChAiALlJUVD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

A Gentleman in Moscow

A Gentleman in Moscow has landed. It's not about who you are. It's about the people you meet. A Russian aristocrat is spared from death and placed on house arrest while the Bolshevik Revolution plays out before him.

Set in post-Revolutionary Russia, 🪆 Count Alexander Rostov (Ewan McGregor) is stripped of his title and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the Metropol Hotel. Imprisoned at the property, the Count develops a friendship with a young girl, Nina (Alexa Goodall), but when a friend, Mishka (Fehinti Balogun), arrives at the hotel, the Count is forced to face his past, while trying not to sink into despair with the future.

Ewan McGregor as Count Alexander Rostov is in the screen adaptation of the author Amor Towles' bestselling novel. The limited series take on Amor Towles' 2016 novel tiptoes along an allegorical line, without toppling over into either outright whimsy or voyeuristic gawking at the flawed idealism and generational traumas of the Bolshevik Revolution.

Gentleman in Moscow is the upcoming television series for Paramount+ with Showtime based on the novel of the same name by Amor Towles (2016) Ben Vanstone is the writer, executive producer, and showrunner. The series is set to star Ewan McGregor and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Winstead plays Anna Urbanova, a Russian film star. While the Count has an instant attraction to her, Anna loves playing hard to get.

Watch the series on @paramountplusuk from Friday 29th March.

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Posted 29th March 2024

Interessanti riflessioni (sentite nel podcast Book Review del NY Times) su come è cambiato il ruolo del cadavere e come è cambiato il modo di investigare un delitto nei racconti gialli. Vi metto il link in fondo alla pagina. TRASCRIZIONE [Translation below] Ho sentito una interessantissima analisi su come è cambiato il ruolo del corpo del morto nei racconti gialli, nei racconti di detective. Una cosa che mi ha molto interessato, anche perché un genere di lettura e anche di visione che mi piace molto e una cosa su cui non avevo mai riflettuto, comunque vi dico di cosa si tratta. Anzitutto è una riflessione fatta da Amor Towles che è uno scrittore, poi vi metto anche il link e l'ho sentita nel podcast del Book Review dal New York Times, e anche di questo vi metterò il link. Allora, questa è la considerazione che nel Novecento, il secolo scorso, fa un po' di impressione dire il secolo scorso, però nel secolo scorso i racconti gialli e polizieschi si dipanano partendo dal cadavere e dal ritrovamento del cadavere. Pensate al tipico racconto di Agatha Christie con Poirot, con Miss Marple che si scopre cadavere e da lì poi parte l'indagine, e le indagini sono tutte volte a stabilire come fosse la persona quando era in vita e chi potesse avere un motivo per odiarla. Quindi la persona morta era sempre al centro delle analisi e il detective usava l'intuito per scoprire poi quelle che erano le ramificazioni. Ora, nella seconda metà del Novecento, ma poi soprattutto all'inizio degli anni 2000, è cambiata radicalmente la figura del detective, che non è più questa persona con l'intuito che va e scopre, ma diventa semplicemente un esecutore o un esecutrice di compiti, viene assunta per trovare la moglie scomparsa, il gioiello scomparso, eccetera, poi fa le indagini, va a interrogare qualcuno a China Town e dopo qualche giorno quella persona bum, viene trovata morta, perché? Perché aveva visto o sentito qualcosa, era stata testimone, e lì il detective si rende conto che si trova in mezzo a qualcosa di molto più grosso, non si tratta semplicemente di una donna scomparsa, un gioiello scomparso eccetera, ma di qualcosa di più grosso, quindi cambia fondamentalmente anche il modo in cui si procede per fare le indagini. E poi ultimamente soprattutto negli anni 2000, è esploso il fenomeno del serial killer, quindi se prima l'investigatore doveva scoprire tutte le cose che poteva sulla persona morta, e il corpo effettivamente era al centro di tutto, adesso l'investigatore deve invece cercare di scoprire cosa muove il serial killer, e il corpo non è più uno attorno a cui si sviluppa tutto, ma sono tanti, il serial killer uccide sei, sette, otto persone, non solo, ma mentre prima le persone morte nei libri di Agatha Christie erano persone con cui non ci potevamo immedesimare, il serial killer uccide in modo apparentemente casuale, quindi c'è anche un'immedesimazione maggiore. Insomma, riflessioni molto interessanti che se vi piace il genere vi consiglio sicuramente di ascoltare il podcast, che è in inglese però vabbè che vi devo dire? TRANSLATION I heard a very interesting analysis of how the role of the dead body has changed in mystery stories, in detective stories. Something that I am very interested in, also because it's a genre of reading and also viewing that I really like and something I had never thought about, anyway I will tell you what it is about. First of all, it's a reflection made by Amor Towles who is a writer, and I'll also put the link to it, and I heard it on the Book Review podcast from the New York Times, and I'll put the link to that as well. So this is the consideration, that in the twentieth century, the last century, it feels a bit weird to say the last century, anyway in the last century crime and detective stories unfold starting from the dead body and the finding of the dead body. Think of the typical Agatha Christie story with Poirot, with Miss Marple discovering a corpse and then the investigation goes from there, and the investigations are all about what the person was like when they were alive and who might have had a reason to hate them. So the dead person was always the focus of analysis, and the detective used intuition to then discover what the ramifications were. Now, in the second half of the twentieth century, but then especially in the early 2000s, the figure of the detective has changed dramatically, and s/he is no longer this person with intuition who goes and discovers, but simply becomes a doer or executor of tasks, is hired to find the missing wife, the missing jewel, etc., then investigates, goes to question someone in China Town and after a few days that person boom, is found dead, why? Because that person had seen or heard something, had been a witness, and there the detective realises to be in the midst of something much bigger, it's not simply a missing woman, a missing jewel, etc., but something bigger, so it also fundamentally changes the way you go about doing the investigation. And then lately especially in the 2000s, the phenomenon of the serial killer has exploded, so if before the investigator had to find out all the things they could about the dead person, and the body actually was at the center of everything, now the investigator has instead to try to find out what moves the serial killer, and the body is no longer one around which everything is developed, but there are many, the serial killer kills six, seven, eight people, not only that, but whereas before the people who died in Agatha Christie's books were people with whom we could not identify, the serial killer kills in a seemingly random way, so there is also more identification. In short, very interesting reflections that if you like the genre I definitely recommend you listen to the podcast, which is in English but anyway, what can I say? The Book Review del NY Times https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/amor-towles-sees-dead-people/id120315179?i=1000624910242

Un gentiluomo a Mosca: Paramount+ svela il trailer ufficiale della serie evento Paramount+ ha sollevato il sipario sull... #AmorTowles #EwanMcGregor #paramount #UnGentiluomoaMosca https://agrpress.it/un-gentiluomo-a-mosca-paramount-svela-il-trailer-ufficiale-della-serie-evento/?feed_id=3600&_unique_id=65e85e131e35b

Some winnings from the Neilson Hays Library @neilson.hays.library booksale 1. Two hardcover books written by Umberto Eco and Günter Grass' the Flounder 3. Marina Lewycka's A short History of Tractors in Ukrainan which I am sure it is a story more than the tractors. 4. Raffles of the Eastern Isles by CE Wurtzburg. I'm very much in love with the story of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles - who has ever lived in Indonesia and discovered the ruins of the Borobudur temple. The rumour says that he even has an Indonesian nyai-mistress too. Aye! Our hero is mortal too - heart on his sleeve. 5. Allende's Zorro. I was wondering whether the story of Zorro is real or not. I think Zorro is just a fictional character and Allende retells the story. We'll find our later. 6. Thutiyawiset "Booblua" by MomLuang Boonlua Debgasuvawn. I bought it because I want to read as much as SEA literature and I happened to find this book on sale for an affordable price. Does it worth reading @iampawasu 7. Dracula by Bram Stoker - I wonder why I keep buying Bram Stoker's Dracula while I have around 268+ Dracula books from the same authors written in different languages. But this is one of the cover I love the most. Looks so erotic like "By Jove! No breasts are perky and round like those in the cover unless they do have some implants..." 8. An autographed copy of Gentleman in Moscow by the one and only Amor Towles @amortowles . Show you some of the beautiful parts of the book including his signature. Making my day! 9. Last- not least- as their book sale is happening to the 6th of November - a collection of poems by Robert Frost written bilingually (German-English). Well, what can I say--- I am mortal, I cannot resist on the those lines "And miles to go before I sleep... and miles to go before I sleep..." Des ✨ https://www.instagram.com/p/CkVW8ACLrDH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

“When you put it all together just like that, with the beginning at the beginning, the middle in the middle, and the end at the end, there is no denying that today was a one-of-a-kind of day” “For only when you have seen that you are truly forsaken will you embrace the fact that what happens next rests in your hands, and your hands alone.” It took some time, but I finally managed to finish this wonderful multi-narrative novel by @amortowles While long in narrative, its many topics of ownership, righting wrongs, and forsakenness kept my attention. And of course, the characters themselves. I could feel the magic that I experienced in A Gentleman In Moscow as I joined Emmet and Billy and they’ve encountered. The cast was written so well whether it be Wooly’s kindness, Duchess’s theatricality, or Emmett’s urge to prove himself. Each one offered a unique perspective on this road trip gone wrong story. Ulysses was one of my favorites. Highly recommend for those who enjoy misfit stowaways, wayward black guys, a feminist powerhouse, and two brothers who are both big in heart. #booksaremagic #booksaremyfriends #booksarecool #booksarefun #booksarethebest #bookreviewer #bookrecommendation #bookishfeature #bookishglee #bookbloggers #bookbloggerlife #readingislife #readingismagic #readingislit #readingisawesome #bookreviewersofinstagram #mybookfeatures #bookreview #readingcommunity #bookishcommunity #bookishlife #bookishlover #saturdaypost https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce8qF4oO6Wh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

a gentleman in Moscow

Amor towles

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An aristocrat returns to Moscow in 1922 and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol Hotel. Characters and adventures abound! #amortowles #agentlemaninmoscow https://www.instagram.com/p/CYHavvvLh3D/?utm_medium=tumblr

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An early #octoberbookhaul Book-of-the-month picks, the new Stephanie Plum, an early Harry Bosch and a recent Orphan X. What books are you looking forward to in October? #thelincolnhighway #amortowles #harlemshuffle #colsonwhitehead #everythingwedidntsay #nicolebaart #bookofthemonth #theblackice #gregghurwitz #girlfromwidowhills #the100 #bookstagram #bookshelves #booknerd #bookhoarder #bookworm #sodacityreads #bookish #bookreview #hardcover #bookcover #bookhaul #literarycrimefiction #goodreads #homelibrary #fiction #domesticthriller #crimefiction #thriller https://www.instagram.com/p/CUsn5CfrVJy/?utm_medium=tumblr

A Gentleman in Moscow By Amor Towels This is the third book from the Spring season of @duchessofcornwallsreadingroom and I have to say, the Duchess of Cornwall has done a fantastic job of turning me on to books that I would have passed over at the bookshop. That was the case with A Gentleman in Moscow. I thought it was going to be some Cold War spy vs soy bullshit. How wrong I was! So it's 1922 and Count Alexander Rostov wrote a poem that pissed people off. He is staying at the Metropol, an elegant hotel in Moscow. His sentence end up being under house arrest at the Metropol until he croaks out. This seems dull but truly this book is portable magic ( I stole that from somewhere). The characters are colorful and quirky. Count Rostov is delightfully charming and his lightening quick wit makes every sentence in this book a jewel. It's the sort of book where you devour it and as the end grows near you slow down because you don't want it to end. Count Rostov was physically confined to a hotel for decades and made excellent use of his time. I was furloughed from my job last year for several weeks and up my quarantine snacks within three days. We are not the same, the Count and I. #thereadingroom #amortowles #booklover #readersofinstagram #ilovetoread https://www.instagram.com/p/CPJ0b0JF9Tl/?utm_medium=tumblr