Bella Tuscany (5)

21 Feb 2007

Title: Bella Tuscany
Author: Frances Mayes
Genre: Non-Fiction, Memoir

The used bookstore had this on sale for $2.00. Thus even if I hated it I couldn't be really disappointed with the purchase. I didn't hate it. In fact I enjoyed parts of it very much but didn't love it. Didn't even like it a great dea overalll. The descriptive prose, sincere sentiments and simple observations of a certain kind of life are all present and deeply enjoyable but the life that Mayes writes about in this book is different from the life she wrote about in her first memoir. No, that's not true. The life is the same but her relationship to it and so the things she thinks are worth writing about are different. Less rose colored glasses, more seeing things as they are. More mundane details and minutae that must be endlessly interesting to Mayes but to me? Not so much.

Posted by Michelle on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 at 9:29 PM

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