The next meeting of the Newbury Book Discussion Group will be Thursday, April 6 at 7 PM at the Tenney Memorial Library. This month we are reading A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles. Chosen the best book of the year by many organizations, including NPR, The Washington Post and The Chicago Tribune, Amazon describes it as "the utterly entertaining second novel from the author of Rules of Civility. Amor Towles skillfully transports us to The Metropol, the famed Moscow hotel where movie stars and Russian royalty hobnob, where Bolsheviks plot revolutions and intellectuals discuss the merits of contemporary Russian writers, where spies spy, thieves thieve and the danger of twentieth century Russia lurks outside its marbled walls. It’s also where wealthy Count Alexander Rostov lives under house arrest for a poem deemed incendiary by the Bolsheviks... Despite being confined to the hallway of the hotel, the Count lives an absorbing, adventure-filled existence, filled with capers, conspiracies and culture." Copies of the book are available through interlibrary loan from your local library. Please plan to join us for an entertaining hour of conversation about the book.

Feb 12, 2025, 6 to 8 PM

Feb 12, 2025, 7 PM

Feb 13, 2025, 6 to 7:30 PM