Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
Registered by Canadian-babe of Montepulciano, Toscana Italy on 2/9/2009
This book is in a Controlled Release!
This book is in a Controlled Release!
2 journalers for this copy...
The famous book everyone talked about. I enjoyed reading it because it described and talked about the area that I live in. Plus, the extra recipes.
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Thanks Marysgirl for having chosen by book from Collectorkerri's First Sentences VBB. I hope you enjoy it...I did.
Thanks Marysgirl for having chosen by book from Collectorkerri's First Sentences VBB. I hope you enjoy it...I did.
Arrived today. Thanks for sharing Canadian-Babe. And extra thanks for the lovely bookmark. I do soooooo want to visit Tuscany!
Finished this last night and really enjoyed it. Mayes is a descriptive writer doing an excellent job of transporting the reader to her sun-drenched home in Tuscany or the fog-bound shores of San Francisco. She uses the three year process of renovating a villa as the "frame" for her memoir, passing easily back and forth between the expected disasters and delights of renovation, memories of growing up in the South, history and people of the cities or area she's visiting and her favorite recipes.
The book seems to have little to do with the movie which cites Mayes' book as the source. The Diane Lane vehicle focuses on a couple of love stories which don't occur in the book (Mayes is divorced and in a committed relationship with a man named Ed throughout the book.)
I recommend this one and can't wait to try some of the recipes. Thanks for sharing Canadian-Babe!
The book seems to have little to do with the movie which cites Mayes' book as the source. The Diane Lane vehicle focuses on a couple of love stories which don't occur in the book (Mayes is divorced and in a committed relationship with a man named Ed throughout the book.)
I recommend this one and can't wait to try some of the recipes. Thanks for sharing Canadian-Babe!
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Gave to my sister Hopiej for her flight to Ohio. Enjoy!
Edit:
I included this book in a Bookcrossing article about the "empty nest" trip my husband and I took in the fall of 2009 and mentioned above. Here's the excerpt regarding this book:
"Little did I know, a year ago, as I scanned the Forums, it would lead directly to a three-week adventure across an ocean and 2000 years back in time (metaphorically). Not only a physical trip, but a reading adventure as well. Last spring, I was on a Book box binge and signed up for five in rapid succession—then promptly forgot about them as I went about my life. My daughter agonized over a college decision. My dad struggled with a mysterious ear infection. I was trying to get a book published.
Summer arrived and so did the first book box—"The First Sentence Virtual Book Box" organized by collectorkerri. I made my mystery selections and sent them off. A couple of weeks later, a package arrived from Italy. It was Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes. Canadian-Babe, a Canadian transplant to Tuscany sent it with a lovely note and bookmark. I was thrilled! My husband and I had taken a week-long anniversary trip to Rome and Naples nine years ago, but hadn't had time for Tuscany. We had several friends who had visited and raved about the area. I thought, "This is perfect escape reading!"
Escape from what? My daughter was leaving for college in a few weeks and I already missed her. The empty nest -- the anticipation of it hit me hard. I couldn't write, my garden suffered, but I did read. I sat on my front porch in the long summer evenings, reading Mayes' memoir and sighed, "I would so love to visit Tuscany!" My astute spouse took note. A message popped up in my email, "Check this out." I opened it. Earthwatch (http://www.earthwatch.org) had an archaeology dig in Tuscany and there were teams available in the fall."
You can read the entire article here.
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Gave to my sister Hopiej for her flight to Ohio. Enjoy!
Edit:
I included this book in a Bookcrossing article about the "empty nest" trip my husband and I took in the fall of 2009 and mentioned above. Here's the excerpt regarding this book:
"Little did I know, a year ago, as I scanned the Forums, it would lead directly to a three-week adventure across an ocean and 2000 years back in time (metaphorically). Not only a physical trip, but a reading adventure as well. Last spring, I was on a Book box binge and signed up for five in rapid succession—then promptly forgot about them as I went about my life. My daughter agonized over a college decision. My dad struggled with a mysterious ear infection. I was trying to get a book published.
Summer arrived and so did the first book box—"The First Sentence Virtual Book Box" organized by collectorkerri. I made my mystery selections and sent them off. A couple of weeks later, a package arrived from Italy. It was Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes. Canadian-Babe, a Canadian transplant to Tuscany sent it with a lovely note and bookmark. I was thrilled! My husband and I had taken a week-long anniversary trip to Rome and Naples nine years ago, but hadn't had time for Tuscany. We had several friends who had visited and raved about the area. I thought, "This is perfect escape reading!"
Escape from what? My daughter was leaving for college in a few weeks and I already missed her. The empty nest -- the anticipation of it hit me hard. I couldn't write, my garden suffered, but I did read. I sat on my front porch in the long summer evenings, reading Mayes' memoir and sighed, "I would so love to visit Tuscany!" My astute spouse took note. A message popped up in my email, "Check this out." I opened it. Earthwatch (http://www.earthwatch.org) had an archaeology dig in Tuscany and there were teams available in the fall."
You can read the entire article here.
2009 Keep Them Moving #14
