Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

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	Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia Elizabeth Gilbert Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 1707 reviews view larger image
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How to Pull Yourself Up By Feeding Your Appetite

We've all had that moment when we're so low the baseboards look like levees. If you haven't been there, then you need to be prepared. I read this book after years of healing from an awful breakup. The thread of emotion that has remained from that seven year relationship is now just a small part of the fabric of my life that I lead now. This book helped me to see that and I am very grateful to the friend that suggested I read it.

Don't let the 'Pray' part keep you away from this book!

I hated to finish this book.

I think the reason this book is so intensely popular is because even though most of Elizabeth Gilbert's readers can't identify with the logistics of her journey (she took a year off and traveled the globe because she was depressed!), but because they enjoyed her attitude about being open to change. She's serious, yet hilarious, open, yet emotionally crippled -- all at the same time.

At times, the book felt like a travel journal. It was very interesting to me to learn so much about way different cultures live. Whether the national focus is on good food (Italians and their pasta and wine), a good relationship with their 'God' (Indians and their meditation) or, well, the people she interacted with in Indonesia are just too odd to categorize. The author was able to melt into each culture and share her experiences through good, old-fashioned American girl talk. All while searching for some kind of comfort within her own skin. She simply wanted to be happier and put herself through some pretty far out methods in order to come out on the other side of her unhappiness.

As for the religious connotations (particularly while in India), I hope readers who aren't particularly 'believers' can plow through those references and enjoy her process. What she experiences is quite funny and, at times, pretty insightful. She started the book with a general belief in 'our' God, so was willing to see how other cultures find greater comfort through their spiritual relationships with 'theirs'. However, for me, this wasn't religious reading (again, particularly the section about India because that's where her entire visit was about finding a spirituality that works for her). It was so far out from any kind of bible thumping that most of us normally avoid that it was a good read - if that makes sense? When she moves on to Indonesia, the beliefs that the people had were downright hilarious.

If you find your head reeling because you just can't 'buy' the meditation stuff, fast forward through a paragraph or two, but don't give up. You might miss a few nuggets where she comes up with some pretty wonderful insights about life, but still, it'll keep you moving through the book instead of saying "this isn't for me", ya know?

I found myself wanting to highlight a sentence here and there. An "aha!" that made me want to be able to read it again when I feel lost the next time, etc. Or something funny that I just appreciated as a writer. In any case, I've found a new author to read, she feels like a woman I could have drinks with and laugh, cry or just get a kick out of. If this book ever was turned into a movie, it would be beautiful and hilarious and raw all at once. I'm thinking...Sandra Bullock or anyone who can pull off vulnerable and funny at the same time.

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Very enjoyable book

I heard about this book being discussed on the Gail King XM radio show several months ago and was intrigued by the interview. Having been through a divorce and walking through an airport on my weekly business travels, I purchased the book on a lark. I found the book amazingly easy to read and quite enjoyable. Liz Gilbert's ability to take you through her divorce and subsequent worldwide travel to only find her true inner-self was truly uplifting and entertaining.

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