Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert Review

08-June-2010

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It's 3am and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her 30s; she has a house, a husband, and they're trying for a baby... but she doesn't want any of it.

A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it's time to pursue her own journey in search of 3 things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion and balance.

So she travels to Rome, where she learns Italian from handsome, brown-eyed identical twins and gains 11 kilos; an ashram in India, where she finds that enlightenment entails getting up in the middle of the night to scrub the temple floor; and Bali, where a toothless medicine man of indeterminate age offers her a new path to peace (to simply sit still and smile). And slowly happiness begins to creep up on her...

Review

(Review by June Pauna.)

Eat, Pray, Love is a book that allows you to experience another's journey of enlightenment and along the way, even find a little of who you really are.

I could see and smell Italy when she was there. Her descriptive language brought all the people in her book to life for me. Many parts of the book inspired me to take time and to enjoy the journey.

I would rate it 5 out of 5. It was easy to read - kept my attention. I didn't want to put it down!