Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert

I've just finished reading Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert so decided I would write a little review of it here. I really enjoyed this book, although it took me quite a few chapters to get into it and at the beginning I thought I was going to hate it. Eat, Pray, Love is a book written by a woman at the end of her rope. It's an autobiographical story about Elizabeth Gilbert's journey to heal herself after a messy divorce and then the subsequent breakup of a very intense rebound relationship. After these events in her life, Gilbert is left with no money (her ex-husband took it all, apparently), completely heartbroken, on anti-depressants, and barely ...  Read the complete review

Elizabeth (Liz) Gilbert has it all: at the age of 31 she's already published three books, is an acknowledged journalist, popular with her friends, married for eight years to her long-term boyfriend, co-owner of a nice house in the suburbs of New York. The next item on the list is a baby. Yet, one night she finds herself crying and praying on the bathroom floor, she suddenly knows that she has to get out of the marriage and that a baby is out of the question. The divorce is a long, contentious affair and the passionate love-affair she begins during that time leads to a suicidal depression. She loves the sound of the Italian language and wants to learn it so ...  Read the complete review