I tried and I just could never get invested into the story. I kind of felt she thought others were responsible for her happiness. So I bailed and glad I did. At least I can mark this one of my TBR mountain.
@cbee #ReadYourKindle #ReadYourEbook
I tried and I just could never get invested into the story. I kind of felt she thought others were responsible for her happiness. So I bailed and glad I did. At least I can mark this one of my TBR mountain.
@cbee #ReadYourKindle #ReadYourEbook
So this was the first book in Book Interrupted‘s Book‘s with Movies Season. I loved this book in 2008 and recommended it to others but reading it this time around there were some really cringy parts in it. I still loved the spiritual and self discovery stuff. We had a good discussion on the podcast about how people 15+ years ago didn‘t really talk openly about mental health or women escaping social expectations to know themselves. So-so in 2024.
This book has been on my TBR list on my work book shelves forever. Just decided to read and loved it!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
In this scene, Julia Roberts simply can't enjoy the food, because she has gained 10 pounds over her petite frame...A cute but funny scene that is both poignant and relatable! Eat, Pray, Love is a movie with modern aims. A modern woman steps away from her perfectly ordered life, to find Fulfilment. She eats her way through Italy, prays in India, falls in love with a handsome man in Indonesia (Javier Bardem)
If you are brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting and set out on a truth-seeking journey (either externally or internally), and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue, and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher, and if you are prepared - most of all - to face some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you.“
Such a great read! I really enjoyed reading this book! It was amazing, yet light hearted! Loved the cover too!
“To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.”
“You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That‘s the only thing you should be trying to control.”
Enjoyed the Italy section but then the other sections got a bit preachy and it kinda lost me not a bad book just not a me book.
“I wondered, ‘Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time.”
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#VolumesandVocals
#FeelinGood
1) the tagged 🍲 🙏🏻❤️
2) Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance 💫🌟
3) Abbi Waxman 💛
#WondrousWednesday
Have you played @mom_of_4 @iread2much @RaeLovesToRead
“I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time 👇🏻
1) only finished it to write a legit 1-star-review😄 Privileged, self-absorbed woman takes time off, everything is described as if she is the first human ever to: gain weight, learn a foreign language (it's Italian, she is not exactly tackling Mandarin🙄), pray, get a bladder infection, travel, etc.
2) Anything by Jojo Moyes, Nicolas Sparks or Cecilia Ahearn. Can hardly stand a movie based on their novels😅
#ihavequestions @RaeLovesToRead
I only made it through Italy and skimmed the rest. There was a whole white savior side plot in Indonesia, many many rude & disparaging mental heath comments, random racism, absolutely no analysis of her privilege & the moral of what could have been a cool adventure story was her meeting a man (& getting off antidepressants, FU)Shallow and weak writing all the way around, embarrassing that Penguin paid for her travels.
Book 2/5 for #jumpstart2023
This came up on my #roll100 &I don‘t want to read it at all, which of course begs the question 🙋🏻♀️ “why did you take it from the library book sale?”
I am 50 pages in. Obviously she‘s going on a culturally appropriative journey. Knew that.She‘s used the words “spazzy” & “Gypsy” like.. ok it was 06. The Stone Age. Then suddenly she says how hard it is to travel as a pale blonde person, it‘s easier for vaguely brown people. Which is just… wow.
“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
#AlphabetGame
#LetterE
I loved this book and her journey ❤️
What is your favorite book beginning with the letter e? Tag me, tag friends 📚
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Not quite my cup of tea, as I found it dragging, but overall it was a decent read. I‘m also still curious about the movie.
Although the book is beautifully written, I found the story a bit boring but oddly admirable.
Check out Book Interrupted member Kim‘s review of Eat Pray Love on our weekly blog segment Manuscript Mondays. https://www.bookinterrupted.com/post/manuscript-monday-eat-pray-love
It took a lot for me to actually finish the whole thing. It was like eating an extremely sweet bland candy. It was okay for a few bites, then rots your teeth.
It was like I was trapped in a conversation with a random lady in a dinner party who was so full of herself, but is a very good storyteller.
I did enjoy some of the whimsical adventures, but the narration was very self-absorbed.
Let's figure out which one we are.... Eat, Pray, or Love! Find out here:
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Wow! This was so fun to open while being quarantined. I can't wait till I have full taste back to enjoy the coffee and chocolate.
Than you.
I can't wait to read Eat Pray Love.
I absolutely loved this book and the way it was written. I love how it‘s divided into 3 books-Eat (Italy), Pray (India), and Love (Indonesia). I love how it‘s separated into 108 short stories incorporating the traditional japa mala which consists of 108 beads, rather than separating them into lengthy chapters. Italy is by far my fave book, but I enjoyed her meditation journey in India and her love story with Felipe in Bali. #eatpraylove
This is probably an #unpopularopinion but I didn't like her. I liked the people she met, but I was not charmed by her humor. I appreciated her brutal honesty of her pain, but I found her spiritual journey boring. She even admits she was bored with the endless chanting. I did like, however, how she twines all the major world religions together for her truth. That was inspiring. #ReadingAsia2021 #Indonesia #India @BarbaraBB @Librarybelle
1) I wish I could go on a journey like she did!
2) Daenerys 🐉 🔥
3) through time!! ⌛️
#SundayFunday
I‘ll tag @Littlewolf1 @Roary47 @tracey38
Day 17 #MayCharacters
Prompt: Mindful
Liz spends part of her year of travel in India, learning meditation and mindfulness.
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My 2nd #audiobook this year: #EatPrayLove by #ElizabethGilbert, read by the author herself and it was fantastic! I first read this book on paperback in Bali, in Ubud, circa 2017, and I enjoyed it so much. Rereading this after 4 years, it resonates well from where I was to where I am now. Not that I sufferred what Liz experienced, but that journey of trying to become a person of maturity, evenhandedness, curiosity and 👇
Despite the obvious first world problems and the fact Gilbert comes off as a whiney rich girl with problems of her own making - I LOVED this book, and I loved Gilbert‘s voice and I will read the next one. I guess even rich ridiculous white girls have problems too and that makes me feel slightly better :). So on to the next one. I feel like she could be a girl bud - as long as she doesn‘t mind me telling her to stop whining. Lol