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    Bella Tuscany

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    A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF UNDER MAGNOLIA

    Frances Mayes, whose enchanting #1 New York Times bestseller Under the Tuscan Sun made the world fall in love with Tuscany, invites us back for a delightful new season of friendship, festivity, and food, there and throughout Italy.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJul 5, 2000
    ISBN9780553751550
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    • 5/5
      I enjoyed Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany is even better. Mayes writes with humor, grace, and sensitivity. The love she feels for her summer home, Bramasole, all of Tuscany, and her Italian neighbors shines through. You are transported through her wonderful exposition on the beauty of the landscape, the joy of the Italian people, and the cornucopia of fine food that she describes throughout Bella Tuscany right to Cortona. La Dolce Vita!
    • 2/5
      Bella Tuscany by Frances Mayes; (1 1/2*); acquired 09/24/2007; purgedMayes' smug, contrite, & superior attitude is a total turn-off. This sequel has none of the charm, the warmth nor the character of her first book, Under the Tuscan Sun. I didn't buy this book to read about her childhood or her parents or her siblings. I didn't buy this book to read about Minnesota, her house in California, or her daughter's wedding. I didn't buy this book to read about her trashing her house guests. I didn't buy this book to read poetry, or her opinion of art. I bought this book for more of what I loved in it's predecessor. I am so disappointed in this author.Now that her vacation getaway in Tuscany has been renovated, the olives trees planted, Mayes has sadly run out of things to say. There are only so many pages of people eating, gardening and lounging in their lemonarias that one can stand. The vignettes of Italian life that made Under the Tuscan Sun so delightful are all but absent here. The author & her husband appear to be spoiled academics with too much money and time on their hands. It is difficult to sympathize with their minor construction problems as if they are life tragedies.Come back with another as good as the first & I will buy it.
    • 4/5
      If you liked "Under the Tuscan Sun",you will like this one.It continues on with her months/life spent in Bramasole each year. Frances and Ed and become part of the community and enjoy living the italian lifestyle.They continue to renovate the house italian style! very good read. She gets a bit long in some spots,but a very worthwhile read!!!!!This is a good book that "takes you away!"Good summer read.
    • 4/5
      Sequel to UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN; Frances Mayes has found happinessin love and location. A form of escape reading, but quite well-done and enjoyable. Highly recommended. Don't listen to the author reading her own work, though.
    • 3/5
      This book is an easy read. However, it made me hungry and craving fennel. It also sorta inspired me to work on our garden. It reads somewhat like a diary of a year in Tuscany with side trips including Sicily. Frances Mayes loves Italy, food , wine , trees and flowers and makes you love it all too.
    • 4/5
      Sequel to Under the Tuscan Sun, and just as good.
    • 4/5
      Frances Mayes takes us back to Bramasole, her home in Tuscany, just as spring comes to Cortona. This time she is with her love Ed; and the home terraces have blossomed, ready for the next phase of planting and design. It is a story of seasons, not just spring, summer fall and winter, it is about the seasons of life: the changes the come expectedly and those that sneak up on us. Bella Tuscany is just the type of book I love to read when the itch to travel is scratched by my lack of funds. So I journey vividly to Italy, and dream about what it would be like to spend a whole summer in this place, or anywhere that I could afford a second home. Also it’s fun to try the recipes she includes, and add the beans and different plants to my garden. 4 stars.
    • 4/5
      This book wasn't as polished as "Under the Tuscan Sun". It didn't seem tidied up, but had a very real steak to it- right out of the journals and onto the page without cleansing the raw impressions and thoughts of the author to please mass readers. This made it a bit uneven but that did not detract from the whole for me- perhaps even added to it for this type of book. I found the author to be more of a real person.
    • 5/5
      Oh, Italia! How I adore you!The follow-up to Under the Tuscan Sun, Bella Tuscany is less about the home Ms. Mayes and her partner have built than their settling into the landscape and community. They spent more time in Italy during this memoir than they did in the last, using up a great deal of vacation time I suspect!I really enjoyed reading Ms. Mayes descriptions of the Italian landscape; they were as evocative and rich as in her first memoir. They spent more time touring around small Italian towns in this memoir, and a lot more time visiting local wineries and farms. This is what I loved about the sequel, I felt like Ms. Mayes was delving deeper into the Italian mindset; I felt like I better understood the area she was living in this time around. I also loved her musings about the Italian language - I've tried to learn Italian too and it's exceptionally difficult!I know that she has written a third memoir about her life in Italy, and another about traveling to Greece. Big plans to track down copies to read in the sun!Clearly I highly recommend this memoir. It was beautiful, lyrical, and rich.
    • 2/5
      This a lightweight summer travel read that rhapsodizes about the good life in Tuscany.
    • 4/5
      A return to the author's senses-filled life in Tuscany. As wonderfully evocative as its predecessor.
    • 4/5
      Not as good as Under the Tuscan Sun, but very readable.