kiki68 says

The book was about her actual life and I much prefered it. The movie was quite a shock to me, because it had nothing to do with the original book! I wonder how Mayes felt about that! It isn't my book and I felt violated! There certainly were no extended chapters about sex in the book! I loved the book with its recipes, and bought it years ago when it first came out, not after they made it into anopther sexy Diane Lane vehicle--also totally miscast!

posted 8 days ago

uplandpoet says

i loved the book, not so much the movie, but then it would probably not been sucha great movie if they had stayed close to the book.

posted 8 days ago

thewriterstuff says

The movie was so far from what the book was about that they should have given the movie a different title. I enjoyed both.

posted Wednesday, January 23 2008

skellybean says

I'm with you Beth. I preferred the movie as well, and that hardly ever happens!

posted Tuesday, January 22 2008

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luminita says

I've only seen the movie until now but I'd love to read the book. It's always the book that appeals to me more.

posted Wednesday, November 14 2007

smithakr says

All the bored housewifes out there shud read this book...it celebrates the importance of romance n hope in a woman's life......talks about the way a woman sees beauty.

posted Wednesday, September 19 2007

sweetafton says

That's pretty perfect timing.

posted Tuesday, July 24 2007

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nonna says

Loved this book and I loved my trip to Italy!

posted Tuesday, July 24 2007

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sweetafton says

Mayes' writing is as lovely as the place she describes. As others have noted, this book made me wish to pack up and move straightaway. Fortunately, someone else is living that fantasy so I can read about it.

posted Saturday, July 7 2007

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sherryp says

I read this after a vacation to Cortona, Italy, where the author Frances Mayes bought a villa and lived emersing herself in the warm, colorful, rich life of Tuscany. This book is NOTHING like the cheesy movie of the same name which is very, very, very loosely based on it. The book tells the story of her purchase of the house and its subsequent restoration and her integration into the life of this lovely hilltop community above the unbelieveable varied colored landscape of the vale de Chiana below. You will fall in love with Tuscany and if you have never been there, will long and yearn to go!

posted Friday, July 6 2007

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