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Attention Armchair Travelers!

May 24th, 2006 Carissa - Alicia Ashman

If you love to live vicariously through the books you read, and you’ve always wanted to travel to exotic locations, read Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert.  This is the travel journal of a woman who has just pulled herself through a painful divorce and decides to find healing by living abroad for a year.  When I listened to the author reading her book on CD, I stayed in the car for a few minutes after I’d reached my destination just to hear a little more.  Before the end of the book, it felt like she was a close (and beautifully articulate and honest) friend of mine, confiding to me all the details of her fantastic trip around the world.  Along the way she includes descriptions of the luscious Italian food and language, her journey deep into her soul in an Indian Ashram, and her efforts to find the balance between indulgence and austerity in Indonesia.  Beware!  You may have a strong urge to visit Bali when you finish the book.  Or at least take a few lessons in Italian.

Entry Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Nonfiction