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Beautiful Ruins
Beautiful Ruins | Kazam Butur
The No. 1 New York Times Bestseller Jess Walter's Beautiful Ruins is a gorgeous, glamorous novel set in 1960s Italy and a modern Hollywood studio. The story begins in 1962. Somewhere on a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and views an apparition: a beautiful woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an American starlet, he soon learns, and she is dying. And the story begins again today, half a world away in Hollywood, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lot searching for the woman he last saw at his hotel fifty years before. Gloriously inventive, funny, tender and constantly surprising, Beautiful Ruins is a novel full of fabulous and yet very flawed people, all of them striving towards another sort of life, a future that is both delightful and yet, tantalizingly, seems just out of reach. 'Magic...A monument to crazy love with a deeply romantic heart' New York Times 'A novel shot in sparkly Technicolor' Booklist 'Hilarious and compelling' Esquire Jess Walter is the author of the National Book Award finalist The Zero and the Edgar Award-winning Citizen Vince. His previous book The Financial Lives of the Poets was published in the UK by Penguin.
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cwarnier
Beautiful Ruins | Kazam Butur

#lmpbc @babyruth2510 @BookishBelle
@Kangaj1 I am mailing your book back to you today.
Thanks for a great round ladies.

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cwarnier
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#lmpbc
@Kangaj1 @BookishBelle @babyruth2510
Perfect day to start this! We got a snow day today. ❄️ ❄️

LeslieO I 💕 this one! Perfect choice to take you away from a snowy day. 3y
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Kshakal
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OriginalCyn620 Beautiful cover! 5y
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rachelk
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I picked this up in a used bookstore today and I‘m really enjoying it so far. Someone on here said it reminded them of The Nix, which would be great since I loved that book!

Freespirit Sometimes you just get a gem of a book at the second hand book shop! 6y
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Krysta
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#septinbooks18 prompt today is #currentreadthruemojis @bookisglee

The book is: 😍😢😷🙎‍♀️🤰🤱👩‍👦🏃‍♂️😔👨‍🎤😈🤧😷👴👵👩‍💼🚣‍♂️🗺🏙🌅🎸📸🎥

Hehehehe and I am: 😍😍😍

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Krysta
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I love #photochallenges and am looking forward to #septinbooks18
Today's prompt: anticipated September read.
These are next on my #tbr pile, but as September goes on I might pick up something more autumn-y, dark and creepy instead. Who knows. But for now, this is it.

@bookisglee #lovereading #bookish #bookstagran #booklove #readmore #bookworm #amreading

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peacegypsy
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Starting this novel today! What a beautiful landscape. I hope your Memorial Day weekend is wonderful! Three days to read! 💛💙💚🧡💜💗❤️😃

Eggs Loved this!! 7y
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HelloZombie
Beautiful Ruins | Kazam Butur
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This was a story I imagined happening many times and it was cathartic to read.

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Chelseylovestoread
Beautiful Ruins | Kazam Butur
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I loved this book. It reminded me of The Nix, 1 epic story with so many side stories about all the characters you come across all woven together. Really well written, definitely recommend.

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Jaimelire
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Just finished this one a few minutes ago. I enjoyed the story. It skips back and forth in time. I have to admit the past proved much more interesting then present setting. Old Hollywood stars, Italy and doomed love kept it entertaining! Overall, a good read.

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laurenesalisbury
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Finishing this up tonight with a cup of green matcha lavender tea as a reward for finishing a draft of my dissertation IRB materials.

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Purrfectpages
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This wasn't one of my favorites, but it's the first book that came to mind when I thought about exotic getaways. The cover alone makes me long to be on an island in the sun. laislabonita #junetunz

[DELETED] 206653737 Oh no I have this one on my TBR. 7y
Cortg I really enjoyed the audiobook! 7y
Cinfhen I tried this book because of the gorgeous cover, but I couldn't get into the story....I did an @shawnmooney and bailed 🙄 7y
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Purrfectpages @bookish22 you might really like it! @Cortg I'm having a hard time getting into audiobooks in general. @Cinfhen you'd probably agree with me if you read the whole thing then. 7y
Cinfhen I'm sure you're right @Purrfectpages and I can't listen to audio fiction either🙄 7y
Purrfectpages @Cinfhen I really want to like it, I'm just not feeling it! 7y
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Mindyrecycles
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Cinfhen Yes!!! I was waiting all day to see this beautiful cover 💙😊 8y
Laalaleighh 💙this book 8y
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Beckyandbailey
Beautiful Ruins | Kazam Butur

And even if they don‘t find what they‘re looking for, isn‘t it enough to be out walking together in the sunlight?

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