Thursday, April 24, 2008

Another website

I was reading the book on the readprint site & noticed it was spacing paragraphs funny. I don't know if it's just my computer, but just in case any of you are having the same problem, here's the site I usually use:
Additionally, I noticed that this site shows the Preface of the book, which I didn't see before on the other site!

Monday, April 21, 2008

And The New Book Is...

"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde

Link to read online:

http://www.readprint.com/work-1508/Oscar-Wilde

PSH

Friday, April 18, 2008

That's Italian!

Reading Under the Tuscan Sun, made me want to speak Italian, dress Italian, make love to an Italian man, (yeah, baby), eat Italian food, paint my walls of my house so that they look like a Tuscan villa, decorate with tapestry. I want olives, pasta, coffee, gelato - all of the things they eat in Italy. I wandered about the grocery last week looking for Italian offerings and the best I could do was to buy a bag of tri-color pasta. How sad.

I want to sit in the sun on the terrace and drink wine. Frances Mayes does a wonderful job of leaving you wanting more. More of Tuscany, more of her writing, more of life! That's Amore'!

I'm excited about our first get together tonight and getting to know everyone better. What could be more fun than eating Italian and talking bout what we've just read? Yay for our book club!

Under The Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes

It's Spring time in Indiana, the first book club meeting is later tonight. I'm super excited!

Mostly because I chose this book to get away from the brown and gray Indiana skys and to really enjoy the warmth of a book that I've been wanting to read for so long. The movie has been out for quite a few years and I've seen it several times - it was now time to do the book some justice and read it.

Frances and her husband buy a Tuscan Villa which is called Bramasole. Yearning for the sun, is the english translation I believe. A journey through someone else's restoration project is the perfect sit down and read book for when the weather just does not agree with your mood. I found that the recipes had stories to go along, the food was described so well that my mouth watered, but I was disappointed by one thing.

The time she and her husband spent traveling around to the different Etruscan sites was a little too boring for me - I love history and learning of site, etc..., but I just could not get my mind into wandering along the roads like Frances and her husband do.

Overall, I have to say 4 stars out of 5. I enjoyed reading about someone else's life and her personal journey as she found herself again year after year.

Patty