BOOK #2

I didn't want to like this book. I very rarely read books that EVERYONE is talking about. Mostly because the hype is ALWAYS better than the book. Case in point Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. I hated this. I tried to like it. I tried to finish it. It was overhyped and it underdelivered.
But with Eat, Pray, Love, for me, the hype came through.

It was a nice change for me to read and really enjoy a book as it spoke to my spiritual side. Or what's left of my spiritual side, I should say. It's pretty much a wasteland these days. One friend told me she had heard the book was self-indulgent and it is. It really is. But it didn't bother me. I enjoyed all of Gilbert's temper tantrums and trials and tribulations as she figured out and learned her lessons in life. Her emotional trysts with herself will easily be self-recognizable by a lot of women. Who better to beat ourselves up but our own self? "Depression and loneliness stopped by last night."

I would LOVE the opportunity to blast out of my own life into a year or two of travelling to places in this world that speak to me. I would LOVE the chance of another do-over in my life. I'm just sorry Liz Gilbert wrote it all down first.

As a rule, I don't keep books I've read. Mostly because I rarely re-read any one particular book. However, I will keep this one. It's a great buffer for when the ever-hovering friends, Loneliness and Depression, come to visit.

P.S. Don't be in awe, folks. I really don't read this fast. I had started Eat Pray Love at beginning of my vacation and only read sporadically. But when I got time back to myself, I finished it and the previous one rather quickly. Doesn't happen often.