Outside Reading - Week 6, Post B

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

This book is divided into 3 sections, one for each country Liz lives in over the course of a year. First she spends 4 months in Italy eating, then she spends 4 months in India praying, then she spends 4 months in Indonesia loving. Over the past week I finished reading the Italy section of the memoir, and started the India section. The Italy section was fantastic, absolutely amazing. Liz talked about her experiences, and her travels, and all of the great food she ate! If any other person went on this journey and had the same experiences and wrote a memoir on it, it wouldn't be nearly as enjoyable or inspiring as the way Liz tells it. She uses such great adjectives and emotions and figurative language when she writes, which makes it so much fun to read. I feel like I'm listening to her just sitting at the table, telling of her Italian friends that she has made and how every week she goes to another place in Italy, and asks the locals, where is the best place to eat? And once she gets there she asks the waitress for the best thing on the menu. It all sounds delightful, the way that Liz portrays it, and it is all in Italian, Liz's newly learned language. My mom was recently in Venice, so I heard about the nature of the Italians and their food and customs, and the beauty of their cities. Reading about it in this book made it all the more wonderful, and now I have been inspired to go to Italy and see all of the sites and experience what a beautiful and yummy country it is, all down to simply the Italian language.