Incontinent on the Continent: My Mother, Her Walker, and Our Grand Tour of Italy Audiobook (Unabridged)

" Light, frothy and a very quick read. The book has its moments, some quite funny, but overall Jane Christmas comes across as mean spirited, impatient and whiny. I kept getting flashes of her stalking around Italy like an outraged adolescent, rolling her eyes and snapping out sarcastic comments. Maybe that was the point. Was she trying to say that our mothers can reduce us to our worst selves? I also found her description of her mother's various ailments intrusive and mean. "

" The author takes her mother on a six-week tour of Italy. Things don't always go as planned, and tempers flare, but throughout the voyage they both come to a better understanding of one another. At times humorous, at times undeniably bittersweet, anyone who is a daughter or a mother of a daughter will identify with the relationship and love/hate interaction of these two travelers. I particularly enjoyed the book because it took me back to some of the places I have been to in Italy, and it was a great armchair travel book. "

" I wouldn't recommend this book. I though I would enjoy it after my trip to Italy. But I found the author did too much complaining about how horrible it was to take care of and travel with her Mom. I was hoping there would at least be some kind of catharsis in the end but there was very little to justify a whole book of complaining. "

" it was okay - but not one of my favorites. Some friends liked it alot. so go figure. "

" All I could think when I read this was, "Why? Why would you want to do that?" Not so much a travel memoir as a dealing-with-aging-parents memoir. Maybe someone with aging parents would appreciate it more? "

" in the style of Bill Bryson, a hilarious travelogue ... makes me want to plan another trip to Italy (with carefully selected travel companions) "

" The book was entertaining and I loved reading about adventured in Italy; however, I didn't like the seemingly consistent quips or complaints about traveling with an elderly mother. The book was well-written and great for the pool. "

" I loved this book...read it in 3 days. However, I don't think I'll be going to Italy anytime soon...;) "

" I found this to be an interesting book about the delights and disappointments of taking a dream trip to Italy while hoping to mend a contentious mother-daughter relationship along the way. "

" Highly entertaining, especially for any woman who has a volatile relationship with their mother. "

" Why would anyone take their mobility impared mother on a 30 day tour of Italy? "

" I picked this up at the library in the Italy section. I thought it would make better plane reading than Frommer's Italy. You don't really learn anything about the country, just that the food is bad, they overcharge you and aren't equipped for disabled people. "

" pretty good,though she is within a breath of slapping her mother.i would be too.but why she just can`t leave her mother to sleep (what SHE wants to do),and explore on her own,i can`t understand "

" -not a flattering look at travel in Italy (it poured with rain, the food was horrible) but a good, true-to-life portrayal of a relationship of a middle aged daughter and her elderly mother. The troubled past history was not resolved but in the end new memories were made. "

" At times humorous, at times sad, this is an account of a six-week trip to Italy undertaken by the author with her mother. "

" This book is making me laugh outloud and is a funny travel book about Italy. "