This last fall, Jane brought this book to me and said I had to read it. I'd avoided it because I thought it was going to be dry and too deep. I finally broke it open in the last week. KAREN! You have to read this book. I hear your voice in it. I've barely read 1/3 (I'm not through the "Eat" part yet) but I've enjoyed it so much. Basically, the author is extremely unhappy in her married life, goes through a messy divorce and pitches a book idea to her publisher--she wants to spend a year in Italy, India, and Indonesia (four months in each place). In the part I am reading, Elizabeth Gilbert goes to Italy to eat and learn to speak Italian.
"When I realized that the only question at hand was, "How do I define pleasure?" and that I was truly in a country where people would permit me to explore that question freely, everything changed. Everything became......delicious. All I had to do was ask myself every day, for the first time in my life, "What would you enjoy doing today, Liz?" What would bring you pleasure right now?" With nobody else's agenda to consider and no other obligations to worry about, this question finally became distilled and absolutely self specific."
The book is an easy read, funny, and thought-provoking.
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