Moments: Love Story

moments: There are moments in this love story about two patients who live in proximity, but are rarely able to interact that are equally difficult to read, especially those involving the indignities inflicted by the staff at the institution, according to The Waterloo Record. But there is also the revelation of hope. When she unearthed his story, she found it to be almost unbearably moving. It always there, even in the darkest moments. A Gentleman in Moscow By Amor Towles Viking, 480 pages, 36 From the author of the breakout historical hit Rules of Civility comes another impressive and sweeping historical tale, this time about Count Alexander Rostov who, in 1922, is vilified by a Bolshevik tribunal and sentenced to house arrest in a majestic hotel across the street from the Kremlin. There is always love too, that balm that can make the impossible possible even for a few moments, even if that has to be enough. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.