Bella Tuscany

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• Bella Tuscany: The Sweet Life in Italy By Frances Mayes

  Frances Mayes is, first and foremost, a poet. She once said, When I wrote the last line of Under the Tuscan Sun, I wrote the first line of Bella Tuscany. I knew I was not through writing about Italy. She writes about the Tuscan countryside with such ... (read full critics)

  bookpage published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

• Bella Tuscany: The Sweet Life in Italy (abridged)rn By Frances Mayes

  Under the Tuscan sun againFrances Mayes, the Peter Mayle of Italy, has done a difficult thing. Bella Tuscany (6 hours), her second book is even better than her best-selling first. After seven summers of restoration, Mayes's beloved villa, Bramasole, ... (read full critics)

  bookpage published on Wed, 15 Sep 2010

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  Once again Frances Mayes wrote a beautiful book.

  What I like about her writing is that she is really passionate about life in Tuscany and in her words Bramasole is close to heaven. This book is mostly about her garden so I, who enjoys reading about plants (not actually growing them), really lo ... (continue)

  Once again Frances Mayes wrote a beautiful book.

  What I like about her writing is that she is really passionate about life in Tuscany and in her words Bramasole is close to heaven. This book is mostly about her garden so I, who enjoys reading about plants (not actually growing them), really love it.

  I'd say that drawback about this book, like other books from Frances, is that it is somewhat disorganized. The articles jumps around with the writer's thoughts. Therefore I have to admit that there are some paragraphs or chapters that I had to skip without reading.

  Nevertheless, I think most part of this book is very beautiful. It makes me long for purchasing a property in somewhere far, far away as well.

  P.S. I got her autograph in the front page! Yeah~~

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• English Books
• Paperback
• ISBN-10: 076790480X
• ISBN-13: 9780767904803
• Publisher: Broadway Books
• Pub date: Oct 01, 1999
• Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette and Others

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