I would put it this way: I read A Year of provence, fell in love with it, and set about translating it. This demonstrates that in my attitude toward life, I was extremely close to the author, Peter Mayle.
應該這麼說：我看到《山居歲月》便愛上，動手翻譯，說明我在生活態度上相當貼近作者彼德．梅爾。