Eat Pray Love

Bit of a change in pace from the other book I'm reading atm (another children's historical, but this one so bad I'll leave it nameless when I talk about it) - I'd heard about this roundaboutly, after being blown away by Catherine Gilbert Murdock's Dairy Queen last year; Elizabeth Gilbert is Catherine's sister.  I was a bit unsure about Eat Pray Love though, and probably would have forgotten about it completely, except for people commenting on Robin Brande's blog, saying how much they loved it and how glad they were Robin had pushed it.  I still wasn't a hundred percent sure how much I was going to like it, but within a few pages I was already planning on pushing it on several people.

I was also marking passages for quoting, and soon realised it would get out of hand if I wasn't careful.  So, a tiny bit about the book, and then a few quotes from the first section.  It's a memoir of a year the author spent - well, in search of everything, according to the subtitle - in search of it through 4 months spent in Italy exploring the art of pleasure, 4 months in India, exploring the art of devotion, and 4 months in Indonesia, exploring the art of balancing the two.  Three countries, three sections.

( Just a little bit more this time - honest )

Added bonus for the YA book readers among us is getting a vivid little picture of Catherine - in flash-backs to childhood and Liz's divorce hell, and in the present, when she breezes into Rome for a visit.