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Dec 22, 2017 Maryam rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook, memoir-biography-autobiography, read-harder-challanege-2017

With this book I finished 2017 Read Harder Challenge, but what I think of this book? Honestly something between 2.5 to 3.5.

First few chapters of book didn't interest me at all and more than one time I thought of dropping it but eventually it got better.

Elizabeth Gilberts writes her spiritual journey to happiness and self confidence. This journey happens in three country : Italy,India and Indonesia. What I liked about her was the honesty of the narrative and at the same time I didn't like the dep ...more

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Aug 06, 2009 Jen Peters rated it it was amazing

Shelves: book-club, non-fiction

I enjoy memoirs like this because I like to see how different people are, and how their minds work. What is important to them and what they want the reader to know about their life. Everyone is so different and I am fascinated by this. I love that the author really put herself out there. Her hang-ups, issues, and flaws are all strung out for the world to see. Of course she is biased, you can't help but be, but she didn't paint herself perfect, she let us know she is like everyone else and maybe ...more

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Jul 17, 2009 Hannah added it

Shelves: memoir-biography

I really did not want to read this book. I thought it would be dumb and american and "spiritual" in that stupid way that Americans like to say things like, "Gosh, Buddhism is so cool. I feel so zen." Anyway, I was pleasantly surprised, because even when this woman got a bit too sappy for my taste, she was such a good memoir-writer that I really didn't mind. The stories in this book are really great. ...more

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