A Summer in Tuscany

Rating:
Summary: Piacere (Pee-ah-CHAIR-ay)
Review: This is the Italian word and pronunciation for "pleasure," as in, "It was a pleasure." The author taught me how to say it correctly. I'm trying to say it with what she describes as "attitude." This was a pleasure read. You can almost hear the church bells clanging, smell the pure Tuscan air, taste the Porchetta (whole, roasted pig.) There are nuggets about Italian wine and Majolica and the Etruscans and much more. The author has the gift of folding you into her family. I feel that I am part of it now.

Rating:
Summary: This author is no Frances Mayes -- likewise
Review: We are grateful. It was a relief to find out that you don't have to buy a villa in Tuscany to live the good life! We have enough problems with our old house here. Our family is language impaired, as some say about all folks from the South, but seriously, this writer taught all of us, our children included, how to pronounce the names of the little towns and the Italian words and the phrases we needed to get by. We had never been to Italy before but with what we learned from this book when we got there we did just fine. Bravo! We love to say that now.

Rating:
Summary: This author is no Frances Mayes -- likewise
Review: We are grateful. It was a relief to find out that you don't have to buy a villa in Tuscany to live the good life! We have enough problems with our old house here. Our family is language impaired, as some say about all folks from the South, but seriously, this writer taught all of us, our children included, how to pronounce the names of the little towns and the Italian words and the phrases we needed to get by. We had never been to Italy before but with what we learned from this book when we got there we did just fine. Bravo! We love to say that now.