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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Elizabeth Gilbert
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Elizabeth Gilbert
"The concept of Eat Pray Love is that this woman, Elizabeth Gilbert, her marriage was ending, kind of fell apart, and she decided to -- she's a journalist -- and she decided to travel on her own and take a year and divide that year into quarters. So four months, four months, and four months; and four months would be to eat, four months would be to pray, and four months would be to love.
It took place in three different countries. The first four months was Italy, where she was going to eat and just kind of indulge herself in that. The next four months was India, I think -- it's been a while -- and she stayed in an ashram and learned to meditate and pray; and then the last four months was Thailand -- or Bali. Yeah, Bali. That's such a freeing thing, 'cause in our culture, we're always, "Oh, no, I have to do this, I can't do this, I can't eat that." I just enjoyed that thoroughly immersing herself into each particular feeling. By the end, she really learned that she could sustain herself on her own. I think we do goes through those phases if we're open to that kind of path and that kind of introspection.
Of course, she eventually meets the guy and falls in love, and at that point I was like, "Oh, fairy tale ending!" But the way she did it, it wasn't that she just kind of gave up everything else that she had learned to fall into this relationship. She had it in perspective.
I would give this book five stars. I have recommended it to several people, and I would keep doing that. In fact, I've seen the author. She was here for a book reading, and I went to see her."
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