Very enjoyable book

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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 1740 reviews view larger image
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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.

A Blessing

I first heard about this book after seeing the author, Elizabeth Gilbert, on the Oprah Winfrey show. I brought the book shortly thereafter and started to read it right a way. It became too painful, however, for me to continue reading it when Elizabeth Gilbert was describing her relationship with David. I stopped reading it and placed it my headboard.

The reason why, at that time, it was too painful for me to read Eat, Pray and Love was because the relationship I was in, which had been an on-going relationship for more than six years, was heading south and I didn't know what, if anything, I could do to prevent it from ending. I wasn't in the proper frame of mind to read the book at that time nor was I in the proper frame of mind when the relationship *did* end, painfully so, and left me devastated and suicidal for several months.

About a month ago I picked up the book again and, this time, it was a blessing. As I read the book, I saw myself clearly mirrored in what Elizabeth Gilbert was describing and realized that was why I found it so hard to read the last time. Unlike Elizabeth Gilbert, I haven't found myself yet but continue to grow as I read and mediate.

There are two areas of the book which are my favorites. One is when she is in India and the other is when she is talking to the medicine man in Balise. I found so much profound wisdom in those two sections that most of the pages are yellow instead of white. :-)

As I started to get close to the end, I found I didn't want to read it anymore. Not because it was too painful to read; not because I wasn't getting anything out of it but just the opposite. I didn't want to finish reading it because I didn't want the book to end. Elizabeth Gilbert writes from the heart. She writes with a great deal of warmth, love and with a sense of humor; most of all at herself. You feel, as you read the book, that you have found a friend.

For those who wrote reviews and didn't like the book, maybe they weren't in the right frame of mind when they read it. My advice is to read it again; you just might be surprised by what you get out of it a second time around.

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