i get serious ADD when trying to choose another book via the kindle when i have absolutley nothing in mind. it overwhelms me every time, then i just give up and don't read anything haah.
so, plz NO chick-lit, no sci-fi, no 50 shades of grey and NO vampire shiz. i prefer coming of age type stuff and a lovely writing style is a must.
"The story begins in 1962. 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 spies an
apparition: a tall, thin woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a
boat. She is an actress, he soon learns, an American starlet, and she is
dying.
And the story begins again today, half a world away, when
an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lot -
searching for the mysterious woman he last saw at his hotel decades
earlier.
What unfolds is a dazzling, yet deeply human, roller
coaster of a novel, spanning 50 years and nearly as many lives. From the
lavish set of Cleopatra to the shabby revelry of the Edinburgh
Fringe Festival, Walter introduces us to the tangled lives of a dozen
unforgettable characters: the starstruck Italian innkeeper and his
long-lost love; the heroically preserved producer who once brought them
together and his idealistic young assistant; the army veteran turned
fledgling novelist, and the rakish Richard Burton himself, whose
appetites set the whole story in motion - along with the husbands and
wives, lovers and dreamers, superstars and losers, who populate their
world in the decades that follow.
Gloriously inventive, constantly surprising, Beautiful Ruins
is a story of flawed yet fascinating people, navigating the rocky
shores of their lives while clinging to their improbable dreams."
Seeing as MadDAdam just came out, I am going to recommend anything by Margaret Atwood. Her trilogy is sci fi but any of her older books are filled with amazing female protagonists and can be all consuming reads.
I totally agree with you--I need lovely writing styles or I get bored bored bored. I do like chick lit but it has to be well written, a la Emily Giffin.
Re: i need a book to read!
"The story begins in 1962. 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 spies an apparition: a tall, thin woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an actress, he soon learns, an American starlet, and she is dying.
And the story begins again today, half a world away, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lot - searching for the mysterious woman he last saw at his hotel decades earlier.
What unfolds is a dazzling, yet deeply human, roller coaster of a novel, spanning 50 years and nearly as many lives. From the lavish set of Cleopatra to the shabby revelry of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Walter introduces us to the tangled lives of a dozen unforgettable characters: the starstruck Italian innkeeper and his long-lost love; the heroically preserved producer who once brought them together and his idealistic young assistant; the army veteran turned fledgling novelist, and the rakish Richard Burton himself, whose appetites set the whole story in motion - along with the husbands and wives, lovers and dreamers, superstars and losers, who populate their world in the decades that follow.
Gloriously inventive, constantly surprising, Beautiful Ruins is a story of flawed yet fascinating people, navigating the rocky shores of their lives while clinging to their improbable dreams."
Wait, why did I think u liked HP?
The Glass Castle
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Also, I loved Jodi Picoult's newest book The Storyteller
And Look Me In The Eye: My Life With Asperger's by John Elder Robison
Also I did a blog post of the best books I read in 2012 --here's the link for you. https://quinnmommy.blogspot.com/2012/12/my-favorite-books-2012-edition.html
I totally agree with you--I need lovely writing styles or I get bored bored bored. I do like chick lit but it has to be well written, a la Emily Giffin.
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