eat pray love
Finally finished “eat pray love,” by Elizabeth Gilbert. It was a really great book.
Basically, this woman (Elizabeth Gilbert herself; this book is a memoir) goes through this really terrible divorce and decides that what she needs is to take a year off, travel and get her life back in order. So she spends a year traveling to the three Is: Italy, India and Indonesia.
It reminded me a lot of “Under the Tuscan Sun.” This terribly hurt woman has become someone she doesn’t like, and she wants to find herself again. And find herself she does: She eats like a horse in Italy (who wouldn’t?), lives in an Ashram in India and studies with a medicine man in Bali during the course of her journey.
This book is really popular right now, so I’m sure no one needs a recommendation from me, but this is one of those books that’s going to stick in my head for awhile. Especially my favorite scene, where Elizabeth and her Swedish friend trek from Rome to Naples just to eat some pizza - and once they’re eating this famous, fabulous pizza, she looks across the table at her friend who is almost in tears, she’s so happy. They each eat two pizzas. Hysteria over pizza. My kind of scene.
Check it out, it’s a good read and a good journey to follow along on.
On a related note, if any publishers out there would like to pay me to travel for a year and write a book, please let me know immediately.