Elizabeth Gilbert for many reasons leaves her marriage, a messy and angry divorce soon follows, her bitter ex-husband makes life difficult and wont sign the papers, he wants more than his fair share and Elizabeth gives it to him desperate for the whole thing to be over. She is a busy, motivated and stong career woman who feels she's lost everything. She find herself crying on the bathroom floor, soul searching and depressed. After an on again, off again romance with a man she describes as her soul mate (whom she met while seperated from her husband), decides to take herself on a voyage of self-discovery for a year. She intends to travel to Italy, India and Indonesia (Bali). This is a story about her journey through beautiful places(and food), the people she meets and the lessons learned as she finds herself, rediscovers god/spirituality and maybe...learns to love again?What I loved about this book: The way the book is divided into three books within the one novel. Each book is the story of her travels in Italy, India and Bali. I like how she tries to describe her experiences and the people she meets, I could really picture her eating the best pizza in Italy. Her praying in a meditation cave in India and her wrinkly old medicine man sitting on his porch in Bali. I love how easy it was to read, picking up the book in the evenings and reading a few chapters and doing the same again the next night as I am a busy mummy. I like how she describes her god. I also like the little random bits of info about the places she visits.
The downside: It wasn't gripping, and I kind of got a bit bored in places wanting to get to the good bits. Some parts are a bit slow.
Overall I give this book a 3.5/5
Its also been made into a movie which I have yet to see, hope it's as good as the book.
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