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Mayes took on the restoration of an abandoned Tuscan villa, and discovered unexpected treasures - on her new property and countryside in which she‘d chosen to live.

‘..a memoir about taking chances, living in Italy, loving a house, and always about food...‘

#ABBAInAugust #takeachanceonme

At the past couple book club meetings I ask that the group #takeachanceonme and agree to read Jurassic Park and every meeting I am quickly shot down 😹😹😹 it‘s all good though, one day I will read it! #ABBAinAugust

#TakeAChanceOnMe
#ABBAinAugust

(It was the best I could come up with 😆).

Our family bookclub is now using this Bookclub app to track our books and meetings. There is a great place to list possible book choices for your club to choose from. Im hoping my bookclub will #takeachanceonme and pick one of my suggestions. I guess anything will be better than Celine which we read this past month.

#Abbainaugust #TakeAChanceonme it has been a crazy day ... I‘m very late connecting with you Littens ... ... ... I don‘t even know why I‘m thinking of this song & book about Simon & Garfunkel... just seems to keep coming up every where today ....old friends .. bookends... take a chance on me. 😁💕🎼🎼🎼🎼 ❤️😘

#takeachanceonme #abbainaugust Abbott read Norman Mailers‘ Executioners Song, & wrote letters to Mailer describing experiences & conditions behind bars.Mailer helped him publish the tagged book & lobbied for his early release from prison.Abbott committed murder just 6 weeks after parole ,stabbing to death a 22 year old in NYC.Just because you can write doesn‘t mean you are not a sociopath.Fueled a firestorm of controversy & much talk about 👇

One of my favorite books ever, this is the actual diary of Chicago Tribune columnist Bob Greene. Kept over the course of 1964, when Greene was in high school, it takes place in my hometown. Greene was infatuated with a classmate, Lindy Lemmon, and a good portion of the diary deals with his feelings for her. It will immediately transport you back to your own high school years.

#takeachanceonme #abbainaugust

Triple Play for me! 1 book for 3 challenges!
#auginbooks18 #morethan400pages
#abbainaugust #takeachanceonme (Dante is scary)
#augustisatrip #boston

Boston 1865. Murders inspired by scenes in Dante‘s Inferno.
The windows of the Wide Oaks mansion were draped in heavy black cloth, permitting only faint stripes of daylight along the sides. Widow Healey lifted her head from a mound of lotus-leaf pillows. “You have found the murderer, Chief Kurtz.”

I allowed myself 1 book purchase while in NY and fittingly it is a #nyrb classic 🖤

Alexander travels to Vienna and is captivated by the passion and flattery of Ganna, as well as her dowry. Though she doesn‘t fit the mold of the wife he had imagined, he is deluded in believing that he can change her once married. Instead he finds that Gianna cannot be controlled! Based on the author‘s own failed marriage. #takeachanceonme
#abbainaugust

#AbbaInAugust Day 28: I suppose all new immigrants‘ battlecry is: #TakeAChanceOnMe. In what Dan Yaccarino claims to be his most personal work to date, he shares the story of his great grandfather Michele Iaccarino who grew up on a farm in Sorrento, Italy. While this is distinctly Dan Yaccarino‘s family story, this can also be anyone‘s tale of migration, with the opportunities beckoning on the horizon. My full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-cij