Rules of Civility

by Amor Towles | Audiobooks |
ISBN: 9780451486363 Global Overview for this book
Registered by indygo88 of Lafayette, Indiana USA on 11/8/2021
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Journal Entry 1 by indygo88 from Lafayette, Indiana USA on Monday, November 8, 2021
"This sophisticated and entertaining first novel presents the story of a young woman whose life is on the brink of transformation. On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, happens to sit down at the neighboring table. This chance encounter and its startling consequences propel Katey on a year-long journey into the upper echelons of New York society—where she will have little to rely upon other than a bracing wit and her own brand of cool nerve."

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Journal Entry 2 by indygo88 at Lafayette, Indiana USA on Saturday, October 29, 2022
At age 25, Katey is just beginning to really live life in late 1930's New York City. Starting in a boarding house where she meets her friend Eve, her life suddenly flits between the everyday and the edge of glamour. Along the way, she meets Tinker Grey, who influences her life in more ways than one.

This is a hard one for me to review. I'd been looking forward to delving into Amor Towles' writing because of the great reviews I'd seen of his novels from the last few years. Although I think A Gentleman in Moscow is probably his most well known up to this point, I wanted to start with this, his first novel. I liked the "feel" of this one -- New York City just coming out of the Depression with a cautionary hopefulness, yet on the cusp of WWII. A glimpse into some higher society, balanced with the ins and outs of the day to day. Yet I couldn't quite get into this story as I'd hoped to. There were a nice variety of characters, but I never felt that I really got to know any of them as well as I wanted to. I never felt like I knew where the story was going, and at times the narration seemed to drift off into the unnecessary. Ultimately, it just didn't grab me as I'd hoped, given the hype of this author. But, there was enough here to keep me reading and I really do want to read Towles' subsequent novels. So we'll see how those go.

Journal Entry 3 by indygo88 at Lafayette, Indiana USA on Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Released 10 mos ago (5/4/2023 UTC) at Lafayette, Indiana USA

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