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Eat, Pray, Love – One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert

eat pray love bookI’m beginning to wonder if I’m the only person who didn’t love Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia. I’d heard about it here and there and then, last fall, a man at one of the book booths at the Texas Book Festival said if I was only going to buy one book, it should be this one.

Of course, I didn’t buy the physical Eat Pray Love book because hello, that would mean my precious money was no longer mine. But I did come home and put it on reserve at the library (hello, fourteen requests ahead of me). Fortunately, I was spared from waiting a year or two by my lovely co-worker who lent me her brand new copy that she’d received for Christmas.

And. . . I’m finally finished, six weeks later. Yuck.

Eat, Pray, Love

The plot itself sounded pretty fascinating: Liz finds herself in a horrible mid-life crisis, divorces her husband, and sinks into a deep depression. After a second failed relationship, she decides to take a year off. She’ll spend it in three chunks – four months in Italy (eating), four months in India (praying), and four months in Indonesia (finding love – awwwww).

Except I found the whole Eat Pray Love book tragically dull. It’s longer than I wanted and more about her emotional experiences than what she really did. It’s hard to feel all that bad for someone who, after a divorce, gets a big book advance to travel the world.

I don’t know. It just didn’t do it for me. Once again proving that I have possibly the worst book taste in the world. But so be it. I simply did not love Eat Pray Love. And it certainly did not change my life.

Wow, am I glad I didn’t hand over any of my own sweet money for this book.

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