So I passed the 100 post mark with my post yesterday. Since the post wasn’t necessary the most celebratory kind (but it was monumental in it’s own regard), today I bring you this: Post #101! Woohoo!
Friday night I finished reading Elizabeth Gilbert’s, “Eat, Pray, Love“. The book tells the author’s story of self discovery following a difficult divorce at the age of 35.
The book is equally divided into three segments – each describes a leg of a international journey. She travels to three countries – Italy, India & Indonesia. In Italy she endulges in food, wine, friends and all the beauty around her. Hours upon hours of meditation at an ashram in India teaches Liz how to live on very little and how to quiet her mind. In Indonesia she befriends an old medicine man, a young medicine woman, and a Brazillian gentleman who all show her how to balance the extremes she experienced in Italy & India.
It’s easy to identify with Liz’s tale, regardless of whether you’ve been through a tough divorce or break-up. Everyone has had an identity crisis at some point in their lives, right? The book doesn’t dwell on the reasons why Liz takes the trip, but how she takes the trip & what she aims to learn from each. Her writing style is comfortable and easy – it’s very easy to feel as though her thoughts are your own.
Overall a good read, and I would recommend it to friends. I felt that the message was comparable to Paulo Coehlo’s “The Alchemist” . My only complaint was with the India section. Italy and Indonesia were characteristic of her experience – full of life, joy and energy. But in India, when much of her time was spent in quiet solitude, it was difficult to keep reading.
According to the internet (and the NY Times), a movie based on the book is due to be released in 2011.
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