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Etymologies are fun & Italian can be tricky, even when you think you have enough context, as in la spiaggia era isolata vs. la spiaggia era assolata. Case in point: isolato is not the same as assolato. Isolato means, as one would think, “isolated” (and derives from the word isola “island”), whereas assolato means simply “sunny”, and is a synonym of soleggiato (in fact both words derive from sole, i.e. “sun”). 

“Isn’t it odd how much fatter a book gets when you’ve read it several times? As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells…and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower…both strange and familiar.” - Cornelia Funke, The Inkheart