FOLLOW Darlene capturing news and events, plus favorite books, music, movies, and destinations---tidbits for all lovers of Italy. Or trace Marwitz' footsteps to the Veneto on her mini-Palladian pilgrimage, including days spent in Venice (and the Verona area) on her VILLA TEXAS DOES ITALY adventure.

Friday, May 29, 2009

BOOK: Very Valentine


Adriana Trigiani has done it again with a story that inspires, gives room to dream, then takes you to Italy. Very Valentine follows the love-laced career of a young shoe designer and her energetic endeavors in carrying on the artisan traditions of her Italian-American shoemaking family in Greenwich Village. Valentine's eventual eye-opening visit to Capri charms and seduces in a way that is armchair travel at its best. "Please keep your promise, Adriana, on making Very Valentine the first installment of another of your "trilogies"!"

0 comments: