Program Type:
Discussion GroupsAge Group:
AdultsProgram Description
Event Details
Welcome to the Adult Virtual Book Club, formerly Quarantine Book Club! This is a Virtual Book Club that will meet via Zoom. Our book club will meet the third Tuesday of each month and we will read and discuss a book chosen by the moderators, librarian Christine Edgar and Anna Downing.
Registration is required. Join us via Zoom!
Instructions for Zoom:
Please download the Zoom app on your computer, phone or tablet. You do not have to have a Zoom account to join the meeting. When you register for this program, you will be sent a unique Zoom ID and password. A few minutes before the event, open the Zoom app and type in the meeting ID and password to join us.
Registrants will be emailed Zoom access information shortly before the program.
During this meeting we will discuss "A Gentleman in Moscow" by Amor Towles
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.
This item is available on Overdrive and in print, available for pickup at the Barney branch or the Main Library. Please call the library 860.673.6791 to reserve a copy for Lobby Pickup or place a hold in our catalog.
Hope to see you soon!