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Bella Tuscany, Frances Mayes
Unabridged Audiobook 1999

This is a lovely book. Almost too lovely, in fact; I’m not used to reading books with this much flowery prose and over-abundance of adjectives. In Bella Tuscany, Mayes picks up where she left off in Under the Tuscan Sun (which I haven’t read), with continuing renovations to her Tuscan villa and travels further afield in Italy. It made for pleasurable listening on my mundane highway drives to and from work (especially all the gastronomic details, which made me hungry on my way home every evening), but I have a feeling it would have been a bit too saccharine to sustain my interest in print.