A Gentleman in Moscow

It was okay. 60% in before it got interesting, and that's cuz Rostov realized that he can't while away 30 years going to dinner and recommending wine to strangers and having apertifs and doing fewer and fewer stretches every morning without wanting to die. And actually, he stopped irritating me quite so much when he got a job and had a reason for walking the stairs two at a time every day, and I liked his relationships with Emile and Andrey and their Boyarsky Triumvirate (though I kind of imagined Andrey and Audrius and Vasily were all the same person? That's ... not great). Young Nina was the best character, with her ice cream hors d'oeuvres; that's my kinda gal.

I really thought that when Sofia got injured and he raced her across the city to the hospital, and was told he had to go back to the hotel (house arrest and all that), that he was going to get shot in the back of the bread truck.

I also tried counting the number of times Rostov/Towles referenced Pushkin and lost count. It was a lot. It was distracting and irritating.

I finished because it's for book club, and it had it's moments, and because I've not finished a lot of the book club books on time this year, and I don't want them to kick me out. ;)