false 2385175 <![CDATA[Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255628845m/2385175.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255628845s/2385175.jpg Eat Pray Love, racked up a few bucks during its stay on the New York Times bestseller list. What Gilbert imparts in her story--basically, bracing self-knowledge acquired during a year of travel following a bitter divorce and a shattered rebound romance--is at once astounding yet totally obvious. As Gilbert would attest, albeit more eloquently, the most important stuff in life is pretty much under our noses, but we occasionally have to shake ourselves senseless in order to see it (enlisting a guru and a medicine man are highly recommended).

Take this simple but devastating observation posited while Gilbert was on the final leg of a global tour. "I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and then I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been the victim of my own optimism."

Ten million women are smiling wry smiles and nodding their heads in agreement (men too, probably, but the book has a definite female skew). Such emotional bulls-eyes are hit early and often in Eat Pray Love, each seemingly more poignant than the last. Alternately funny and heartbreaking and always deeply resonant, Eat Pray Love, takes the reader on two epic journeys - one through Italy, India and Indonesia and the other deep inside Gilbert's intense psyche. Charles Montgomery's towering The Last Heathen: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in Melanesia notwithstanding, travel memoirs just don't get any better than that. --Kim Hughes

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In the end the ov...more...]]> 5366828 321404 19501 0143038419 9780143038412 21177 <![CDATA[Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167249254m/19501.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167249254s/19501.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19501.Eat_Pray_Love_One_Woman_s_Search_for_Everything_Across_Italy_India_and_Indonesia 3.60 112228 Booklist calls "Anne Lamott’s hip, yoga- practicing, footloose younger sister") is poised to garner yet more adoring fans.]]> 2006 4 131 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 30 11:40:00 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 07:53:30 -0800 2009 The title and the flowery, pasta-y cover screams, "I'm a book that contains the relentless rants of a neurotic 34 year-old-woman."
So, I'm afraid that the strangers on the Metro will think I identify with her.
But in the comfort...more...]]> 14954479 805366 19501 0143038419 9780143038412 21177 <![CDATA[Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167249254m/19501.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167249254s/19501.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19501.Eat_Pray_Love_One_Woman_s_Search_for_Everything_Across_Italy_India_and_Indonesia 3.60 112228 Booklist calls "Anne Lamott’s hip, yoga- practicing, footloose younger sister") is poised to garner yet more adoring fans.]]> 2006 0 186 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Feb 08 19:41:04 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 08 19:43:30 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3347305 90202 19501 0143038419 9780143038412 21177 <![CDATA[Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167249254m/19501.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167249254s/19501.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19501.Eat_Pray_Love_One_Woman_s_Search_for_Everything_Across_Italy_India_and_Indonesia 3.60 112228 Booklist calls "Anne Lamott’s hip, yoga- practicing, footloose younger sister") is poised to garner yet more adoring fans.]]> 2006 2 59 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 21 08:30:36 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 01:26:38 -0800 2009 more...]]> 12235766 405638 19501 0143038419 9780143038412 21177 <![CDATA[Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167249254m/19501.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167249254s/19501.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19501.Eat_Pray_Love_One_Woman_s_Search_for_Everything_Across_Italy_India_and_Indonesia 3.60 112228 Booklist calls "Anne Lamott’s hip, yoga- practicing, footloose younger sister") is poised to garner yet more adoring fans.]]> 2006 1 70 false Fri Jan 11 07:07:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 23 03:29:42 -0800 2008
In the first one, I'd be generous and I'd say that Elizabeth Gilbert has written an engaging memoir about some interesting people and places and told us a lot of funny stories.

In the second review, I'd say that she is a selfis...more...]]> 17315217 976498 19501 0143038419 9780143038412 21177 <![CDATA[Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167249254m/19501.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167249254s/19501.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19501.Eat_Pray_Love_One_Woman_s_Search_for_Everything_Across_Italy_India_and_Indonesia 3.60 112228 Booklist calls "Anne Lamott’s hip, yoga- practicing, footloose younger sister") is poised to garner yet more adoring fans.]]> 2006 1 79 false Wed Feb 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 08 10:41:49 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 08 11:11:41 -0800 2008

It took me nearly a year to finish it. I was so disgusted by the writer's apparent lack of awareness of her own privilege, her trite observations, and the unbelievably shallow way in which she represents a journey initiated by grief, that ...more...]]> 23175091 685175 19501 0143038419 9780143038412 21177 <![CDATA[Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167249254m/19501.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167249254s/19501.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19501.Eat_Pray_Love_One_Woman_s_Search_for_Everything_Across_Italy_India_and_Indonesia 3.60 112228 Booklist calls "Anne Lamott’s hip, yoga- practicing, footloose younger sister") is poised to garner yet more adoring fans.]]> 2006 1 40 true Sun Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed May 28 18:40:04 -0700 2008 Wed May 28 18:49:29 -0700 2008
I've recently given in. I normally don't go for the Oprah-style self-help mumbo-jumbo. However, the hype surrounding "Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert was just too frenzied to ignore. So I gave in and read the book. "...more...]]> 2008692 118119 19501 0143038419 9780143038412 21177 <![CDATA[Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167249254m/19501.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167249254s/19501.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19501.Eat_Pray_Love_One_Woman_s_Search_for_Everything_Across_Italy_India_and_Indonesia 3.60 112228 Booklist calls "Anne Lamott’s hip, yoga- practicing, footloose younger sister") is poised to garner yet more adoring fans.]]> 2006 4 30 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 15 14:06:37 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 21:40:35 -0800 2009 more...]]> 11797718 666804 19501 0143038419 9780143038412 21177 <![CDATA[Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167249254m/19501.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167249254s/19501.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19501.Eat_Pray_Love_One_Woman_s_Search_for_Everything_Across_Italy_India_and_Indonesia 3.60 112228 Booklist calls "Anne Lamott’s hip, yoga- practicing, footloose younger sister") is poised to garner yet more adoring fans.]]> 2006 1 30 false Sun Jan 06 12:35:34 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 06 12:48:38 -0800 2008 more...]]> 19705963 283540 19501 0143038419 9780143038412 21177 <![CDATA[Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167249254m/19501.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167249254s/19501.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19501.Eat_Pray_Love_One_Woman_s_Search_for_Everything_Across_Italy_India_and_Indonesia 3.60 112228 Booklist calls "Anne Lamott’s hip, yoga- practicing, footloose younger sister") is poised to garner yet more adoring fans.]]> 2006 1 35 false Tue Apr 08 04:02:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 25 23:37:44 -0700 2009
Eat Play Love is the monologue of a neurotic american princess ("Liz") in her mid thirties. The first few chapters background the rest of the book, a confessional that ...more...]]> 6623801 75423 19501 0143038419 9780143038412 21177 <![CDATA[Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167249254m/19501.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167249254s/19501.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19501.Eat_Pray_Love_One_Woman_s_Search_for_Everything_Across_Italy_India_and_Indonesia 3.60 112228 Booklist calls "Anne Lamott’s hip, yoga- practicing, footloose younger sister") is poised to garner yet more adoring fans.]]> 2006 1 28 false Sat Sep 22 18:05:41 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 22 18:29:55 -0700 2007
A cousin recommended EPL and I thought it would teach me something about the book market. My secret boyfriend at the public library was...more...]]> 41934874 337591 685456 0670034711 9780670034710 459 <![CDATA[Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177178611m/685456.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177178611s/685456.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/685456.Eat_Pray_Love_One_Woman_s_Search_for_Everything_Across_Italy_India_and_Indonesia 3.52 1123 Utterly consumed with dread.
I was trying to convince myself that my feelings were customary, despite all evidence to the contrary, such as the acquaintance I'd run into last week whoíd just discovered that she was pregnant for the first time, after spending two years and a king's ransom in fertility treatments. She was ecstatic. She had wanted to be a mother forever, she told me. She admitted she'd been secretly buying baby clothes for years and hiding them under the bed, where her husband wouldn't find them. I saw the joy in her face and I recognized it. This was the exact joy my own face had radiated last spring, the day I discovered that the magazine I worked for was going to send me on assignment to New Zealand, to write an article about the search for giant squid. And I thought, "Until I can feel as ecstatic about having a baby as I felt about going to New Zealand to search for a giant squid, I cannot have a baby."

I don't want to be married anymore.
In daylight hours, I refused that thought, but at night it would consume me. What a catastrophe. How could I be such a criminal jerk as to proceed this deep into a marriage, only to leave it? We'd only just bought this house a year ago. Hadn't I wanted this nice house? Hadn't I loved it? So why was I haunting its halls every night now, howling like Medea? Wasn't I proud of all we'd accumulated - the prestigious home in the Hudson Valley, the apartment in Manhattan, the eight phone lines, the friends and the picnics and the parties, the weekends spent roaming the aisles of some box-shaped superstore of our choice, buying ever more appliances on credit? I had actively participated in every moment of the creation of this life - so why did I feel like none of it resembled me? Why did I feel so overwhelmed with duty, tired of being the primary breadwinner and the housekeeper and the social coordinator and the dog-walker and the wife and the soon-to- be mother, and - somewhere in my stolen moments - a writer ...?

I don't want to be married anymore.
My husband was sleeping in the other room, in our bed. I equal parts loved him and could not stand him. I couldn't wake him to share in my distress - what would be the point? He'd already been watching me fall apart for months now, watching me behave like a madwoman (we both agreed on that word), and I only exhausted him. We both knew there was something wrong with me, and he'd been losing patience with it. We'd been fighting and crying, and we were weary in that way that only a couple whose marriage is collapsing can be weary. We had the eyes of refugees.

The many reasons I didn't want to be this man's wife anymore are too personal and too sad to share here. Much of it had to do with my problems, but a good portion of our troubles were related to his issues, as well. That's only natural; there are always two figures in a marriage, after all - two votes, two opinions, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations. But I don't think it's appropriate for me to discuss his issues in my book. Nor would I ask anyone to believe that I am capable of reporting an unbiased version of our story, and therefore the chronicle of our marriage's failure will remain untold here. I also will not discuss here all the reasons why I did still want to be his wife, or all his wonderfulness, or why I loved him and why I had married him and why I was unable to imagine life without him. I won't open any of that. Let it be sufficient to say that, on this night, he was still my lighthouse and my albatross in equal measure. The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn't want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland.

This part of my story is not a happy one, I know. But I share it here because something was about to occur on that bathroom floor that would change forever the progression of my life - almost like one of those crazy astronomical super-events when a planet flips over in outer space for no reason whatsoever, and its molten core shifts, relocating its poles and altering its shape radically, such that the whole mass of the planet suddenly becomes oblong instead of spherical. Something like that.

What happened was that I started to pray.
You know - like, to God. Now, this was a first for me. And since this is the first time I have introduced that loaded word - GOD - into my book, and since this is a word which will appear many times again throughout these pages, it seems only fair that I pause here for a moment to explain exactly what I mean when I say that word, just so people can decide right away how offended they need to get.

Saving for later the argument about whether God exists at all (no - here's a better idea: let's skip that argument completely), let me first explain why I use the word God, when I could just as easily use the words Jehovah, Allah, Shiva, Brahma, Vishnu or Zeus. Alternatively, I could call God 'That', which is how the ancient Sanskrit scriptures say it, and which I think comes close to the all-inclusive and unspeakable entity I have sometimes experienced. But that 'That' feels impersonal to me - a thing, not a being - and I myself cannot pray to a That. I need a proper name, in order to fully sense a personal attendance. For this same reason, when I pray, I do not address my prayers to The Universe, The Great Void, The Force, The Supreme Self, The Whole, The Creator, The Light, The Higher Power, or even the most poetic manifestation of God's name, taken, I believe, from the Gnostic gospels: 'The Shadow of the Turning.'

I have nothing against any of these terms. I feel they are all equal because they are all equally adequate and inadequate descriptions of the indescribable. But we each do need a functional name for this indescribability, and 'God' is the name that feels the most warm to me, so that's what I use. I should also confess that I generally refer to God as 'Him', which doesn't bother me because, to my mind, it's just a convenient personalizing pronoun, not a precise anatomical description or a cause for revolution. Of course, I don't mind if people call God 'Her', and I understand the urge to do so. Again - to me, these are both equal terms, equally adequate and inadequate. Though I do think the capitalization of either pronoun is a nice touch, a small politeness in the presence of the divine.

Culturally, though not theologically, I'm a Christian. I was born a Protestant of the white Anglo- Saxon persuasion. And while I do love that great teacher of peace who was called Jesus, and while I do reserve the right to ask myself in certain trying situations what indeed He would do, I can't swallow that one fixed rule of Christianity insisting that Christ is the only path to God. Strictly speaking, then, I cannot call myself a Christian. Most of the Christians I know accept my feelings on this with grace and open-mindedness. Then again, most of the Christians I know don't speak very strictly. To those who do speak (and think) strictly, all I can do here is offer my regrets for any hurt feelings and now excuse myself from their business.

Traditionally, I have responded to the transcendent mystics of all religions. I have always responded with breathless excitement to anyone who has ever said that God does not live in a dogmatic scripture or in a distant throne in the sky, but instead abides very close to us indeed - much closer than we can imagine, breathing right through our own hearts. I respond with gratitude to anyone who has ever voyaged to the center of that heart, and who has then returned to the world with a report for the rest of us that God is an experience of supreme love. In every religious tradition on earth, there have always been mystical saints and transcendents who report exactly this experience. Unfortunately many of them have ended up arrested and killed. Still, I think very highly of them.

In the end, what I have come to believe about God is simple. It's like this - I used to have this really great dog. She came from the pound. She was a mixture of about ten different breeds, but seemed to have inherited the finest features of them all. She was brown. When people asked me, "What kind of dog is that?" I would always give the same answer: "She's a brown dog." Similarly, when the question is raised, "What kind of God do you believe in?" my answer is easy: "I believe in a magnificent God."

Of course, I've had a lot of time to formulate my opinions about divinity since that night on the bathroom floor when I spoke to God directly for the first time. In the middle of that dark November crisis, though, I was not interested in formulating my views on theology. I was interested only in saving my life. I had finally noticed that I seemed to have reached a state of hopeless and life-threatening despair, and it occurred to me that sometimes people in this state will approach God for help. I think I'd read that in a book somewhere. What I said to God through my gasping sobs was something like this: "Hello, God. How are you? I'm Liz. It's nice to meet you." That's right - I was speaking to the creator of the universe as though we'd just been introduced at a cocktail party. But we work with what we know in this life, and these are the words I always use at the beginning of a relationship. In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, "I've always been a big fan of your work ..."]]> 2006 5 17 false Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sun Oct 28 11:56:20 -0700 2007 Mon Jan 05 00:38:19 -0800 2009 more...]]> 14091484 142287 19501 0143038419 9780143038412 21177 <![CDATA[Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167249254m/19501.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167249254s/19501.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19501.Eat_Pray_Love_One_Woman_s_Search_for_Everything_Across_Italy_India_and_Indonesia 3.60 112228 Booklist calls "Anne Lamott’s hip, yoga- practicing, footloose younger sister") is poised to garner yet more adoring fans.]]> 2006 5 21 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jan 30 15:01:42 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 20 11:25:55 -0800 2009
The book has helped me come to terms with the fact that this whole divorce healing process is taking so long, longer than any of my friends expected I think, and that it's not over. But even...more...]]> 13355205 245923 2445157 0747589356 9780747589358 9 <![CDATA[Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2445157.Eat_Pray_Love_One_Woman_s_Search_for_Everything_Across_Italy_India_and_Indonesia 3.09 35
The New Yorker
At the age of thirty-one, Gilbert moved with her husband to the suburbs of New York and began trying to get pregnant, only to realize that she wanted neither a child nor a husband. Three years later, after a protracted divorce, she embarked on a yearlong trip of recovery, with three main stops: Rome, for pleasure (mostly gustatory, with a special emphasis on gelato); an ashram outside of Mumbai, for spiritual searching; and Bali, for “balancing.” These destinations are all on the beaten track, but Gilbert’s exuberance and her self-deprecating humor enliven the proceedings: recalling the first time she attempted to speak directly to God, she says, “It was all I could do to stop myself from saying, ‘I’ve always been a big fan of your work.’ ”]]> 2006 4 12 false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 23 21:07:30 -0800 2008 Mon Apr 07 20:25:39 -0700 2008 Eat, Pray, Love — a woman's journey after a series of personal hardships to find peace and happiness across three countries — I thought it was going to be a solemn retelling of the pilgrimage-like voyage in the likes of Paulo Coelho. Of course I was wrong.
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As recently as 50-100 years ago, men were writing about going to foreign countries and striking up affairs with exot...more...]]> 1211818 84942 19501 0143038419 9780143038412 21177 <![CDATA[Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167249254m/19501.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167249254s/19501.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19501.Eat_Pray_Love_One_Woman_s_Search_for_Everything_Across_Italy_India_and_Indonesia 3.60 112228 Booklist calls "Anne Lamott’s hip, yoga- practicing, footloose younger sister") is poised to garner yet more adoring fans.]]> 2006 5 9 false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon May 14 17:09:29 -0700 2007 Mon May 14 17:55:56 -0700 2007
Just read this and tell me you aren't hooked:

“But I wish me and David could---“ ...more...]]> 40100791 307041 19501 0143038419 9780143038412 21177 <![CDATA[Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167249254m/19501.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167249254s/19501.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19501.Eat_Pray_Love_One_Woman_s_Search_for_Everything_Across_Italy_India_and_Indonesia 3.60 112228 Booklist calls "Anne Lamott’s hip, yoga- practicing, footloose younger sister") is poised to garner yet more adoring fans.]]> 2006 1 14 false Fri Dec 19 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 16:30:19 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 11:50:57 -0800 2008 more...]]> 25879898 904948 19501 0143038419 9780143038412 21177 <![CDATA[Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167249254m/19501.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167249254s/19501.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19501.Eat_Pray_Love_One_Woman_s_Search_for_Everything_Across_Italy_India_and_Indonesia 3.60 112228 Booklist calls "Anne Lamott’s hip, yoga- practicing, footloose younger sister") is poised to garner yet more adoring fans.]]> 2006 0 12 false Sun Jun 29 21:11:40 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 29 21:11:40 -0700 2008 23153559 1115017 19501 0143038419 9780143038412 21177 <![CDATA[Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167249254m/19501.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167249254s/19501.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19501.Eat_Pray_Love_One_Woman_s_Search_for_Everything_Across_Italy_India_and_Indonesia 3.60 112228 Booklist calls "Anne Lamott’s hip, yoga- practicing, footloose younger sister") is poised to garner yet more adoring fans.]]> 2006 1 12 false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 28 14:13:17 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 00:07:27 -0700 2008 This book is not uplifting or spiritual in any way. Elizabeth Gilbert is going through life unaffected by anything except her own whims. She is so selfish and self congratulating, tr...more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2385175