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The Italian Party
The Italian Party: A Novel | Christina Lynch
A delicious and sharply funny page-turner about innocent Americans abroad in 1950s Siena "Imagine Beautiful Ruins plus horses; Toujours Provence with spies, a mystery and sex. The Italian Party is a fizzy, page-turning delight that begs for a Campari and soda!" Julia Claiborne Johnson, author of Be Frank With Me "Tremendous fun! Wives with big secrets, husbands with bigger ones, swirling around a 1950s Siena teeming with seduction and spycraft." Chris Pavone, New York Times bestselling author of The Travelers and The Expats Newly married, Scottie and Michael are seduced by Tuscany's famous beauty. But the secrets they are keeping from each other force them beneath the splendid surface to a more complex view of ltaly, America and each other. When Scotties Italian teachera teenager with secrets of his owndisappears, her search for him leads her to discover other, darker truths about herself, her husband and her country. Michaels dedication to saving the world from communism crumbles as he begins to see that he is a pawn in a much different game. Driven apart by lies, Michael and Scottie must find their way through a maze of history, memory, hate and love to a new kind of complicated truth. Half glamorous fun, half an examination of America's role in the world, and filled with sun-dappled pasta lunches, prosecco, charming spies and horse racing, The Italian Party is a smart pleasure.
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LeslieO
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One of those “bought it for the cover.” Loved the 1950s Tuscany glam with a dash of intrigue. #Mediterranean #LitsySpringBreak

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I LOVE the cover 🖤🤍🖤🤍 4y
Cathythoughts Great cover 💫 4y
slategreyskies If that was me on the back, I know I‘d be the one woman who‘d lose at least one of her shoes! 😂 4y
LeslieO @slategreyskies 🤣🤣🤣 4y
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SheilaChew
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Delightful! An American couple - newlyweds - arrive in Italy bringing too many appliances and a whole trunkload of secrets! Fast paced, funny, and surprising - I loved it! The only negative for me was too many characters that I kept forgetting who was who.

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SheilaChew
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Starting the week by finishing this book. I have two and a half weeks of summer left and I‘m going to enjoy every quiet moment!

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SheilaChew
The Italian Party: A Novel | Christina Lynch
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brit91 Looks like a great day!!😍📚 5y
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SheilaChew
Italian Party | Christina Lynch
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Today‘s agenda:
1) drink coffee
2) finish knitting a hat
3) read a book
#summer
#teachersoflitsy
#knittingphotobomb

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emmaturi
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Crazeedi Is this one good?? I love books set in Italy 6y
emmaturi Yes I enjoyed it, but not gushing about it! If that makes sense! Set in 1956 and it is a bit spy novel and to do with communisim. @Crazeedi 6y
Crazeedi @emmaturi sure, thanks for opinion! 6y
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LeslieO
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I admit, I bought this one for the cover. 1950s glam, Tuscany, spies, mystery! I love it.

ReadingOver50 Yes, great cover 6y
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GidgetsTreasures75
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9-18-18: Finished on the plane ✈️ 39th of 2018! 👍🏼📖

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GidgetsTreasures75
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9-18-18: Reading and waiting....🛫📖☺️

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Laalaleighh
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All this, plus spies. Set in post-war Siena. This has been compared to Beautiful Ruins and I can definitely see the similarities.

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Amor4Libros
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Current read! Enjoying it so far. Have a good weekend Littens!

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BookMama789
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Next up in the TBR pile.... The Italian Party by Christina Lynch. I still have such a book hangover from The Balcony by Jane Delury that I'm afraid any book I read next might just seem blah in comparison to how much I LOVED The Balcony. I have been excited to read this though so I am going to try and clear my brain and just move in.

Jerdencon I have this on my kindle from net galley... just haven't gotten around to it yet. Hope it's good too! (edited) 7y
raelaschoenherr Curious to hear your thoughts! I also have it on Netgalley 7y
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Bernadette51
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5 out of 5 Stars! Full review to follow.

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Reecaspieces
The Italian Party: A Novel | Christina Lynch
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🍭🍭🍭 full review is up on my blog. Stop by and say hi! https://reecaspieces.com/2018/03/20/the-italian-party-by-christina-lynch/

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Matilda
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So many new Littens *waves in books* welcome to the best place for book lovers!

I read mostly every genre but a lot of mystery/thrillers because I write Book Riot's Unusual Suspects newsletter: https://bookriot.com/newsletter/unusual-suspects/

And I post a lot of pictures of the goat (a goat trapped inside a dog) photobombing my book pics.

These are my bedtime reads tonight. Night night!

kamoorephoto 👏👏👏👏👏👏 7y
kamoorephoto I have those two waiting for me too 😊 7y
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ChrisM
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It's 80 degrees.... in February!!! So I'm spending a little time easing outside on the deck before dinner 😍😍😍😍Ready for this weather to hold so it can be a regular thing!!

AmyG 80! Wow 7y
Kaye Sounds great. AmyG, how are you liking the weather out there ? And where did you move FROM, I don‘t remember. 7y
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kamoorephoto
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I received a surprise ARC in the mail today; thank you @StMartinsPress - this doesn‘t come out until March...and naturally I thought of ‘Roman Holiday‘ but that may be the idea. Break out the prosecco!

julesG The cover looks fun. I'd be tempted to buy it for the cover alone. 7y
kamoorephoto @julesG I‘ll post a blurb soon...it does look fun...! 7y
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Rhondareads
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Today‘s book mail two novels one memoir I am all set for the long holiday weekend😍💃🏼