Under the Tuscan Sun Book Review
I guess I had plans for doing more book reviews than I really did this month, but that's the way life goes. I thought I'd stick another one in here at the end, just to round things off. This is a book I picked up out of curiosity. I'd seen the movie and was surprised to see that the book was marked as a memoir. So I spent the $1 the library was asking and immediately fell in love. Just holding this book in my hands brings a desire to open it's pages. Frances Mayes is an exceptional writer, the type who can turn something as mundane as remodeling a house into a 280 page experience one is not soon to forget. She beckons the reader to come into her world of sunny outdoor markets and friendly summer dinner parties. It reminds me a bit of my own journal, a hodge -podge of thoughts, experiences, ideas, interesting bits of information, magazine clippings, and more. This book contains everything but the clippings. This is the kind of writing I want to do. I find it difficult