eat pray love

eat pray love
By Elizabeth Gilbert
1415926700 12 hrs, 40 mins (book on CD)

I really tried to like her. I grasped at every good thing- especially the house for her friend- and yet I couldn't like her. All I could see was self-centerdness. Which is usually fine in these books, since it is a memoir after all! But she seems to think she's found the secret to everyone's world. Even buying the house- it was for her friend. And her celibacy vow lasted about as long as it took for someone to want to sleep with her. No, wait, it lasted 24 more hours after he told her he wanted her. Wow, such self-restraint. And, as an aside, every time she said "Richard from Texas", I wanted to yell "He's the only Richard in the book, stop qualifying it!" Actually, it's possible I did yell that once or twice. I thought I'd get descriptions of the countries, too, unfortunately I got to learn about her inner mind more than anything- not a place I'm that interested in. And we leave her at the end of her year of learning and growth pretty much where she started: ignoring almost everything else in her life to follow a man around, fitting her life around his and her viewpoints around his. What was this year supposed to teach her?
6/10