Book Review: Eat, Pray, Love

Book Review: Eat, Pray, Love
By: Elizabeth Gilbert

This is the memoir of writer Elizabeth Gilbert as she spends a year trying to get her life back on track. Having broken up her marriage and burdened by a mountain’s weight of guilt and depression, she takes off on a journey around the world to heal herself.

She divides her year between Italy (where she learns pleasure through pasta and stellar pizza (eat) as well as rolling her tongue over the rich sounds of Italian), India (where she learns to ground herself, slow her thoughts and be kind of herself through months of mediation in an Ashram(pray)), and Indonesia (where she learns balance (love)–smile in your liver).

This is a an interesting memoir in that you can feel Liz transform through her writing. In the beginning of the memoir, there are times where the passages skip around and jump like her twitchy mind. You can feel her issues–the ones she seeks to heal through her journeys. One passage will have you peeing your pants laughing and the next one will have you thinking, ‘Wow, this is dark and deep. Where did this come from?’ It is a wild ride. And while there were some sections that made me want to put the story down and wander off, I am glad I kept with it as it was satisfying watching and feeling her transform herself as I turned each page. Plus, there is a lesson in her work for everyone, you just need to open your eyes, your heart and watch for it.

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