Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

Elizabeth Gilbert

"I had found myself at a large moral quandary. I was walking away from a teaching position, and I did it at the beginning of a school year, which on a moral level was really, really difficult; and somebody recommended that I read this book because it dealt with a level of moral quandaries that we all face.

The book Eat Pray Love is, for me, represented some of the things that I felt that I needed to do to start to heal myself. Elizabeth Gilbert uses this process of going through a devastating emotional crisis in her life and how she was able to unwind out of that emotional crisis. The book describes eating as not just a pleasurable event but a purposeful event. The religious sense of prayer, it was prayer in the Buddhist sense of prayer and more about meditation and finding peace and finding calm. The love part of the book was very, very interesting in that it talks about the woman's journey and how she was able to love not just people but aspects of her life that she hadn't noticed before because she didn't have the time. This is a book about one's self-awareness journey.

I would give the book a three-star rating. The writing was fantastic, but the story was a little bit over the edge."

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