Title: self absorbed and repetitive -- a real disappointment
Product review: I was very disappointed with this book -- it's so self absorbed that the reader is unable to create one's own sense of life under the Tuscan sun! For a poet, Ms. Mayes doesn't seem to be aware of the "objective correlative" -- in which the writer is supposed to create an image for the reader, not belabor her own viewpoints, including the way Ms. Mayes feels every single time she contemplates how ancient Tuscany is. When she steps out of the "me" box, however, as when she travels to the Etruscan tombs, the books is quite good -- too bad those instances were so rare.
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