#the lincoln highway

[emmieedwards]

"Homero começou a história in medias res, o que significa no meio de uma coisa. [...] E, desde então, é assim que várias das maiores histórias de aventura são contadas. [...] Tenho certeza absoluta que estamos na nossa aventura, Emmett, mas não vou poder começar a escrever até saber qual é o meio dela."

— A Estrada Lincoln, de Amor Towles

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[veganpeachpie]

Books without overwhelming romance

I feel like a lot of books people talk about these days have a heavy focus on romance and spice, which really isn't my cup of tea, and it's hard to find good recommednations that don't have that. So here are some YA/adult books I love that don't have romance as a huge part of the plot!

(There may be some minor romantic subplots, but they aren't a major focus.)

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the work farm where he has just served a year for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett’s intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother and head west where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden’s car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett’s future.

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.

Babel by R.F. Kuang 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation—also known as Babel. The tower and its students are the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Silver-working—the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver bars—has made the British unparalleled in power, as the arcane craft serves the Empire's quest for colonization. For Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge obeys power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide . . .

This Savage Song by V.E. Schwab Kate Harker and August Flynn are the heirs to a divided city—a city where the violence has begun to breed actual monsters. All Kate wants is to be as ruthless as her father, who lets the monsters roam free and makes the humans pay for his protection. All August wants is to be human, as good-hearted as his own father, to play a bigger role in protecting the innocent—but he’s one of the monsters. One who can steal a soul with a simple strain of music. When the chance arises to keep an eye on Kate, who’s just been kicked out of her sixth boarding school and returned home, August jumps at it. But Kate discovers August’s secret, and after a failed assassination attempt the pair must flee for their lives.

Anxious People by Frederick Backman Viewing an apartment normally doesn’t turn into a life-or-death situation, but this particular open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes everyone in the apartment hostage. As the pressure mounts, the eight strangers begin slowly opening up to one another and reveal long-hidden truths. As police surround the premises and television channels broadcast the hostage situation live, the tension mounts and even deeper secrets are slowly revealed. Before long, the robber must decide which is the more terrifying prospect: going out to face the police, or staying in the apartment with this group of impossible people.

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will be busier still. By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, left behind there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordian-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever there are books to be found. But these are dangerous times. When Liesel's foster family hides a Jew in their basement, Liesel's world is both opened up, and closed down.

The synopses were all taken from Goodreads. Feel free to comment/DM me if you have any questions about these!

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[wellesleybooks]

A new Amor Towles book makes us happy.

#amor towles #new book #short stories #novella #a gentleman in moscow #rules of civility #the lincoln highway #table for two #book recommendations #npr #author interview

[amazingaa]

"Embora Billy fosse apenas um garoto, ou talvez porque fosse apenas um garoto, ele aparentemente entendia que mesmo não havendo nada de errado, em si, em acordar ou se vestir ou tomar café, existe algo fundamentalmente desconcertante em fazer essas coisas da mesmíssima maneira dia sim e outro também, sobretudo na versão de mil páginas da nossa própria vida."

— A Estrada Lincoln, de Amor Towles

#books #livros #leitura atual #currently reading #a estrada lincoln #amor towles #the lincoln highway #leitura

[goldencrownofsorro]

#the lincoln highway #amor towles #toasting #drinking

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

How easily we forget - we in the business of storytelling - that life was the point all along.

Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway

#book quotes #amor towles #the lincoln highway #literature #books and libraries #literary #books and reading #life quotes

[pmg227]

Favorite Reads of 2023 (so far)

If anyone out there is paying attention, I did a post on my favorite books of 2022 for the first half of that year, but I never did a follow-up. I’m sure I read some good books the second half of the year, but somehow, I just couldn’t come up with them. Since I rated 4 books 5 stars in May, I thought I should write down my thoughts about them now. As come December, I surely won’t remember. In…

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[gabelish]

anyway The Lincoln Highway is a great novel and everyone should read it here’s why/what it’s about:

it’s a story with multiple POV characters (mostly third person) but primarily follows Emmett, Duchess, Woolly, and Billy. It takes place over ten days in 1954.

Emmett is responsible and fairly level-headed; Billy is wickedly smart despite being 8; Duchess steals the show whenever he’s the POV character; and Woolly is simple, sweet, and enigmatic.

the story begins with Emmett being released from a juvenile reform program a little early, due to the death of his father, since he must now take care of Billy. He was in the reform program for accidental manslaughter (he basically one-hit KO’d a bully).

Duchess and Woolly, who were also in the reform program, stowed away in the trunk of the car that dropped Emmett off and Emmett’s sense of responsibility leads him to begrudgingly keep an eye on those two instead of turning them in.

Billy wants to take the Lincoln Highway west to California, where he believes their mother is (who walked out on them shortly after Billy was born); Emmett obliges but only because he thinks California would be a good place to start their life over; he has a plan to buy a piece of shit house for the two of them with the $3K his father managed to leave them (that the bank didn’t know about), fix the house up, sell it for a profit, then repeat the process over and over again to support himself and his brother.

this plan gets knocked off course when Duchess and Woolly “borrow” the car (with the $3K hidden in the trunk neither of them are aware of) and leave Emmett and Billy stranded in Nebraska(?) while they go to New York to reclaim $150K that was supposed to be Woolley’s inheritance (and give $50K to Emmett who isn’t onboard, hence why they have to leave him)

from there the story follows Emmett (and Billy) tracking Duchess and Woolly down to New York, the adventures and people they have and meet along the way, as well as what Duchess and Woolly are doing on their parallel journey; it’s fun and (mostly) lighthearted and has an ending that is ripe for discussion.

#the lincoln highway #books #bookblr #amor towles #book recommendations

[soupthebookreader]

Duchess has a true understanding of the evangelical spirit

#chapter 9 #the lincoln highway #amor towles #quote #Duchess

[similistic]

Books of 2022

Favorites:

- Owen by Kevin Henkes It’s a children’s book about a mouse who is very attached to his security blanket. XD

- Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler A very eerie post-apocalytpic/dystopian science fiction novel. The story is set between 2024 and 2027, so reading it in 2022, as a resident of California, was a bit chilling and very thought-provoking.

- Dragon Haven by Robin Hobb This is book 2 of the Rain Wild Chronicles series, and to be honest, I don’t highly recommend the other three books in the series, and I’m not sure I would have “favorited” it as a stand alone. But it’s the most dragon-centric book of the series and I really enjoyed her treatment of dragons and their lore.

5-Star Ratings in 2022:

- The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles Young man coming of age, vintage Americana.

- Bravely by Maggie Stiefvater Basically a look at what happens to Merida from Disney/Pixar’s “Brave” after the events of the movie.

- The Partner Track by Helen Wan Young, female, Asian lawyer, trying to make partner at her firm. Dealing with racism and sexism. Slight “Devil Wears Prada” vibes.

- The Hating Game by Sally Thorne Fun romance novel. Enemy to lovers trope.

- 99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne Fun romance novel.

- Mad Ship by Robin Hobb Book 2 of the Liveship Traders trilogy.

#books #reading #2022 books #kevin henkes #parable of the sower #octavia e butler #dragon haven #robin hobb #rain wild chronicles #realm of the elderlings #the lincoln highway #amor towles #bravely #maggie stiefvater #the partner track #helen wan #the hating game #sally thorne #99 percent mine #mad ship #live ship traders #owen

[notthatitreallymatters]

Emmett could tell that Sally was as ashamed as he was, and there was comfort in that too. Not the comfort of knowing that someone else was feeling a similar sting of rebuke. Rather, the comfort of knowing one's sense of right and wrong was shared by another, and thus was somehow more true.

The Lincoln Highway - Amor Towles

#reading #quotes #the lincoln highway #amor towles

[lilianeruyters]

Amor Towles ||The Lincoln Highway

The sting is in the tail. A novel that could have been overly sweet all of a sudden became bitter sweet. The main characters are not quite the figureheads we were made to believe.

Towles impressed a few years ago with A Gentleman in Moscow. In this novel the main character was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in a hotel. This given lead to a novel asking its reader a critical question: would I have been able to? Whilst at the same tim have this reader bask in warmth. That warmth is found again in The Lincoln Highway. The original given from the first novel however…

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#reading is fun #American literature #Amor Towles #Great Novel #Great reading #literature #The Lincoln Highway

[joebloggshere]

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

I love Amor Towles’ writing, (see https://joebloggshere.tumblr.com/post/160085135746/a-gentleman-in-moscow-by-amor-towles-i-loved for A Gentleman in Moscow - but for some reason, can’t find my review of reading Rules of Civility).

This book is very different from the others but no less wonderful.  We’re not with the elite now but the story is focused on two brothers from Nebraska.  The story is told mainly in the voices of four characters, our two brothers and Duchess and Woolly, with another four or so piping up now and again.

A surprising ending, (no spoilers here), so won’t say why/what or who but not the ending I wanted.

Towles takes you into worlds and it’s minutiae and it’s just wonderful.  Thanks.

Highly recommend.  

#books #reviews #Amor Towles #the lincoln highway #rules of civility

[geekpopnews]

The Lincoln Highway | Criador de The Bear irá dirigir a adaptação

Christopher Storer, criador de The Bear, dirigirá a adaptação para o cinema do best seller The Lincoln Highway , de Amor Towles. #thebear

Christopher Storer, criador da premiada série The Bear, dirigirá a adaptação cinematográfica de The Lincoln Highway, para a Warner Bros. David Heyman, responsável por sucessos do estúdio como Wonka, cuidará da produção da adptação do best-seller de Amor Towles. Sinopse de The Lincoln Highway Em 1954, Emmett Watson retorna ao Nebraska após cumprir pena por um crime cometido em legítima defesa.…

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#christopher storer #Cinema #Filme #filme baseado em livros #the lincoln highway #Warner Bros

[goldencrownofsorro]

For kindness begins where necessity ends.

#the lincoln highway #amor towles #kindness

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

The funny thing about a picture, thought Woolly, the funny thing about a picture is that while it knows everything that’s happened up until the moment it’s been taken, it knows absotively nothing about what will happen next. And yet, once the picture has been framed and hung on a wall, what you see when you look at it closely are all the things that were about to happen. All the un-things. The things that were unanticipated. And unintended. And unreversible.

Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway

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