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I really wanted to like this book better than I did. It has its elements. It's about three women in their 60's who decide against retirement home living and decide to rent a villa in Tuscan. What a wonderful idea. They are all healthy, talented and have money. They are not dependent on their Social Security checks. They drop $1000 on old books without a blink of an eye, They cart home cases of wine and armloads of flowers. They are not worried about money at all.

They fall into unique employment opportunities, take classes especially in Italian, spend time in town drinking cappuccinos and visiting with the locals, meet interesting men and live a wonderful life. It's very reaffirming and wonderful although the excess started getting to me a little (sour grapes perhaps wishing I was living like that).

So what bothered me? It ambled and ambled. I finally narrowed down the problem. There is another couple already living there about 10-15 years younger than the women. They are already embedded. The woman is a famous niche writer and poet. She is writing about her former mentor in Tuscany, Margaret, another writer. And it's this tangent story that slows the story down. Margaret is not involved in the story and yet takes up copious amounts of space. This leads to my common complaint of the apparent lack of copy editors working now. A good one would have axed that story line right out and the book would have flowed so much better.

Here's the other complaint. Most of the visiting Americans seem to come from the San Francisco area, known locally as the Bay Area. Apparently this is due to the wine connection. So I am happily
reading along when native Californians are referring to San Fran. This would NEVER ever happen. It is almost like a racial slur, fingernails on a chalkboard, an insult. This is such a marked error that it almost destroyed the book in itself for me. Please if you are going to San Francisco never say San Fran. It's just a glaring error

This book had such potential and if someone with a red pencil had fixed the ambling it would have been wonderful. I am so ready for books that explore lives after 60.


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Women in Sunlight Frances Mayes Kimberly Farr 9780525526636 Books Reviews

Since I enjoyed Under the Tuscan Sun, I had high expectations for this book.
It was awful! The author went overboard on tedious, over the top descriptions. Seriously - who needs a half a page to describe a charcuterie platter?
The overall tone of the book is pretentious and snobby. I thought about returning it, but the cost of returning a book to was excessive.
I'll donate it to charity!
I have always enjoyed Frances Mayes books and this was no exception, but I think her true métier is writing memoirs and travelogues instead of novels. It also lacked solid editing. For example, there's no build up to wanting to live in Italy. One minute the three women are saying "Meh" to the retirement community and the next thing you know they're on their way to Tuscany. I also noticed that she recycled incidents and descriptions from previous books. A writer of her imagination doesn't need to do that and a good editor wouldn't have allowed it. I am also puzzled by the Margaret storyline versus the Three Southern Women. Each were intriguing in their own way, but as one reviewer pointed out, it was like reading two separate books.

There were plenty of "must be nice" aspects - no money problems, no health issues, plenty of attractive, available men, and lots of fun adventures with food, flowers, art, and sight seeing. Aside from the one with the cheating husband and drug addict daughter, the family situations aren't particularly complicated. Still, I enjoyed the escapism, the idea of taking risks, and embracing life's second chances. A good read from Frances Mayes, but not her best.
I have enjoyed the previous books by this author, but this was hard to read. It went off on tangents that were not contributory to the story line. Nothing that was written caused me to be drawn into the story that was contained. Please, do not waste time reading this! I kept waiting for it to get better, but it never did
I love Frances Mayes and love her more now that I am a woman “of a certain age”; I think her book is for all women but mostly those who reach a time in their lives where we feel a strong need to possibly reinvent while maintaining the integrity of who we are and have been. I kept putting off the last chapter as I did not want this beautiful story to end. Especially as a true lover of all things Tuscan and Italian, this book sang to me on every page.
One of the loveliest books I've ever read! The story had its predictable themes, but the characters were like people I'd want to know - admirable, talented, and perfect as friends. As they discover their true selves as independent women, they thrive and soar in the idyllic setting of rural Tuscany. And the descriptions of food, markets and cooking sent me straight to the kitchen with renewed inspiration. The text was elevated by wonderful snatches of poetry and classical references. It came to a conclusion as it should, but I was really sorry for it to end.
A perfect read to inspire listening to the voice that whispers of seeking adventure and opening to newness as we mature in life, rather than fading quietly into the background as ‘wise women’ are, many times, encouraged to do. This book will be a perfect gift to give my dearest friends. I found myself inventing excuses to avoid responsibility and keep reading because I didn’t want to come back from Italy.
What an absolutely great read that I enjoyed so very much! I loved getting to know the various characters and how each was developed. I must say, I smiled when I read the review by "ambles" where she mentioned these ladies had no financial worries because not one of them seemed financially challenged in the least. I loved "ambles" review though. I think I enjoyed this book so much because the ladies who moved to Italy are my contemporaries and what they did took "guts" if you will.
Thank you Ms Mayes, I will probably read this again.
I really wanted to like this book better than I did. It has its elements. It's about three women in their 60's who decide against retirement home living and decide to rent a villa in Tuscan. What a wonderful idea. They are all healthy, talented and have money. They are not dependent on their Social Security checks. They drop $1000 on old books without a blink of an eye, They cart home cases of wine and armloads of flowers. They are not worried about money at all.

They fall into unique employment opportunities, take classes especially in Italian, spend time in town drinking cappuccinos and visiting with the locals, meet interesting men and live a wonderful life. It's very reaffirming and wonderful although the excess started getting to me a little (sour grapes perhaps wishing I was living like that).

So what bothered me? It ambled and ambled. I finally narrowed down the problem. There is another couple already living there about 10-15 years younger than the women. They are already embedded. The woman is a famous niche writer and poet. She is writing about her former mentor in Tuscany, Margaret, another writer. And it's this tangent story that slows the story down. Margaret is not involved in the story and yet takes up copious amounts of space. This leads to my common complaint of the apparent lack of copy editors working now. A good one would have axed that story line right out and the book would have flowed so much better.

Here's the other complaint. Most of the visiting Americans seem to come from the San Francisco area, known locally as the Bay Area. Apparently this is due to the wine connection. So I am happily
reading along when native Californians are referring to San Fran. This would NEVER ever happen. It is almost like a racial slur, fingernails on a chalkboard, an insult. This is such a marked error that it almost destroyed the book in itself for me. Please if you are going to San Francisco never say San Fran. It's just a glaring error

This book had such potential and if someone with a red pencil had fixed the ambling it would have been wonderful. I am so ready for books that explore lives after 60.