Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat, Pray, Love

This was another case of me watching a film and then wanting to read the book because I was intrigued; Eat Pray Love with Julia Roberts as Elizabeth is one of my favourite films because it makes me laugh and cry.  As I said, the film intrigued me so I decided to buy the book to see what it was like because I knew it was a non-fiction novel, specifically an autobiographical novel, and these can be hard to adapt as they are based on someone's life so inaccuracies can be found to be even more upsetting for certain people, including the subject of the original text.

Eat, Pray, Love or the full title, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia is a memoir from Elizabeth Gilbert, an American author, which chronicles her journey around the world following her messy divorce.  Eat, Pray, Love is her fourth book but was the first one of hers I picked up; it was a very personal book and was an interesting read.

Rating: 8

Recommended To: Anyone going through a rough time; anyone

Favourite Part: Giulio and Maria have a beautiful apartment, the most impressive feature of which is, to my mind, the wall that Maria once covered with angry curses against Giulio (scrawled in thick black magic marker) because they were having an argument and "he yells louder than me" and she wanted to get a word in edgewise. - Page 60 

Good Points: Loved the Italy/Eat section; a lot emotion written; great premise

Bad Points: Found Pray tedious; some unnecessary anecdotes; couldn't always connect with the book