by Frances Mayes
I liked this book better than Under The Tuscan Sun (though that was a decent read as well). It wasn't really a 'year in the world' technically since all her travels were just in the Eastern Hemisphere, but the travels she does describe do make for interesting reading. I didn't always agree with Maye...
I'm bailing out of this one after just a couple of discs. The prose is so studied, so mannered that it's limpidly painful. Okay, it's really just painful, but I've been listening to limpid limpid limpid for two solid hours and thought I should jazz up my review. Mayes comes off as pretentious, over-...
When I saw this book was being published, I immediately put it on my must-read list. I ordered it and decided to make it my entree for summer reading. By nibbling on it and picking off pieces of it, I've managed to make it last for over a month. In many ways, it was a perfect summer read, for a pers...