Status Updates From Call You When I Land

Her copy of Eat, Pray, Love has been read so many times the cover has fallen off.

That’s it—that’s what’s been bothering me. Instead of reading EPL and seeing Elizabeth Gilbert as a self-unaware narcissist ruining the lives of people around her, the author of this book read EPL and said “I wanna do this too.” So she leaves her fiance to travel the world in the same vein. I should DNF this.

With her writing so openly about cheating on her fiancé with multiple men—a fiancé she admits is a great guy who treats her well and loves her—one has to wonder what his friends told him when this memoir came out. “Hey bro don’t read your ex’s book” just doesn’t seem to cover it.

Why is it a common trope of travel memoirs that one must leave the decent, loving boyfriend behind in order to travel the world? Why are so many travel memoirs inverse romance novels? I want to support your travel bug but not at the expense of cheating on a decent guy who loves the narrator.

Why is every travel memoir an inverse romance novel. I don’t care about the man you left behind or how sad you were to break his heart. I’ll read his memoir later.