Comments on: Keeping the Feast

By: Recap (March 7-13) « bekahcubed

Recap (March 7-13) « bekahcubed — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 06:02:01 +0000

[...] Keeping the Feast by Paula Butturini Memoir, Italy, food, depression. How can it get any better? I think I’m going to like this one. [...]

By: Colleen (Books in the City)

Colleen (Books in the City) — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:05:29 +0000

Rome is one place I really want to travel to – thanks for your review! This books sounds great!

By: Gerri

Gerri — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:01:01 +0000

This sounds like a book I definitely need to read. I have 2 family members that battle depression. It’s something I’m not sure people can fully comprehend unless they themselves or someone very close to them suffers from this debilitating condition.

What is it about Italy? Could it be the food, the beautiful landscape of places like Tuscany, the architecture? I have read at least half a dozen novels set in Italy, and they have the same affect on me. Books like Under The Tuscan Sun, Eat, Pray, Love and The Last Promise are just a few that make me want to drop everything and hop a plane to Italy. My 16 year old son even wants to go.

By: Paula Butturini

Paula Butturini — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:28:58 +0000

Lisa, I just found your review of my memoir, Keeping the Feast, and wanted to thank you not only for reading it so closely and deciding to write about it, but especially for noticing that it is — despite everything we went through — a ‘chronicle of recovery,’ as you say. Though it may be about clinical depression, it’s not meant to be depressing, but instead about hope. One of the main reasons I wrote the book was to try to make our our children understand everything that happened to their father, and in the process give them a road map through and out of depression, should it ever strike them. All of us hope it might help other families going through very bad times. I bet you’d like asparagus if you made them with the wet lettuce leaves, as I describe in the first chapter. They’re done five-six minutes after you put the lid on…

By: Jennifer, Snapshot

Jennifer, Snapshot — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:39:29 +0000

Oh this sounds SO wonderful. I’ve seen it around and was interested, but I saw some lukewarm reviews (along with some good ones).

I LOVE this kind of food/travel/self-exploration type of memoir.