They are now part of the town and have made friends. It's been 20 years since Mayes and her husband Ed bought a house in Tuscany. Mayes makes the decision to write rambling passages in this one and includes poetry and her musings on random things when she is supposed to be telling you about the days she spends in Tuscany starting in the Spring through the Summer. I really loved Under the Tuscan Sun and this one was painful to get through. I haven't read it in years, and am now recalling why I haven't.
The recipes still look very delicious though. I wonder if they stayed in that country during COVID-19 and if they did, how did they and their friends fare? This book just had me wondering how they went on after that incident where they realized that the town of Cortana though it felt opened to them, really still saw them as outsiders for the most part even though they had lived in the country for 20 years at this point. And now in 2021 I wonder if the Mayes' still live part time in Italy. It was written in 1998 (published) but references 2010. What gets me is that this book feels very old. I forgot about the poetry and Mayes long obsession with finding out more about an artist that lived in their town of Cortana. I think that this book tried to do way too much. I tried re-reading this and the last book I realized I still had the same issues in my re-read. I can't really say much more than this which is this book dragged a lot still.
0 kommentar(er)
