Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert - Over the summer, I did not get the opportunity to read very much in between all the traveling and moving and such. However, one book I did read in anticipation of the release of the movie with Julia Roberts was Eat Pray Love.I had resisited reading this book as its huge popularity among the masses made me doubt how good it really might be. Consequently I missed out for much too long!
The scenario of the book seems simple enough: woman gets divorced, packs up all her belongings and moves first to Italy to learn Italian (and ingest enough carbs to last a lifetime), next to India to explore her spiritual nature, then to Bali just because an old shaman told her she would return one day. Along the way she learns that it's okay to be alone, that Balinese real estate transactions can be tricky, and a load of other things that can't be summarized.
Although many of the events in Gilbert's book are mundane, her writing style and voice bring her experiences to life and make the reader feel apart of the culture she is in a the time. I'd certainly recommend this book to those of you who enjoy memoirs and non-fiction in general. Honestly, at points it even FEELS like fiction, so I'd recommend it to those fiction fanatics too!
