Rachel's review
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Rachel's review
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
Rachel's review
one of the very few books my mother has ever read and vowed to buy a new copy of because she needs to give hers to me. haven't been terribly interested whenever i've seen it in the bookstore, but I'm not one to turn down a free book...
...I have yet to finish it yet, which is surprising with the way that I am plowing through it. it is rare that I identify with a non-fiction/memoir/life story on such a deep level. I adore her (presumed) honesty. I am, indeed, in many ways, a cynic and a skeptic, yet I believe her words. flipping through pages, I can't help but think that if everything in the universe is made up of greater or lesser chips off of a finite number of old blocks (can't help the pun), elizabeth gilbert and I are made up of the same proportions from each block. I don't know if that seems like nonsense, but it makes perfect sense to me. I selfishly feel as if an older, stronger me wrote this book so that I could read it. more (hopefully discerning 'review') when I fini...more
...I have yet to finish it yet, which is surprising with the way that I am plowing through it. it is rare that I identify with a non-fiction/memoir/life story on such a deep level. I adore her (presumed) honesty. I am, indeed, in many ways, a cynic and a skeptic, yet I believe her words. flipping through pages, I can't help but think that if everything in the universe is made up of greater or lesser chips off of a finite number of old blocks (can't help the pun), elizabeth gilbert and I are made up of the same proportions from each block. I don't know if that seems like nonsense, but it makes perfect sense to me. I selfishly feel as if an older, stronger me wrote this book so that I could read it. more (hopefully discerning 'review') when I fini...more
