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3.48 AVERAGE
3.48 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
The first and last section are enjoyable and she writes in an interesting way but at times I think too caught up in her own world. The use of metaphors related to spiritual and emotional awakenings is interesting, but slightly overdone but the end of the book.
The pretentious nature of the narrator does tend to slow the pacing down.
The pretentious nature of the narrator does tend to slow the pacing down.
adventurous
medium-paced
I don't think this book deserves the hype it had received when it was first published. I was really looking forward to reading it and it took me way longer than expected to go through it. It has some interesting facts and points of view but at the same time it doesn't have any enduring value. At least not for me.
Out of all three parts of the book I found the last part about Indonesia the most interesting. Balinese cultural peculiarities have definitely raised my curiosity and I would really like to read more about this part of the world.
All in all, nothing too special, probably it won't be the book I recommend to my friends.
Out of all three parts of the book I found the last part about Indonesia the most interesting. Balinese cultural peculiarities have definitely raised my curiosity and I would really like to read more about this part of the world.
All in all, nothing too special, probably it won't be the book I recommend to my friends.
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
sad
medium-paced
I need to start by saying I love Liz Gilbert.
Now to be clear, until Eay Pray Love, I had only ever read one of her books: Big Magic, which I have reread and still adore. Often lamenting that I should actually read her other work someday.
So I've started. Because all of her books are now on my shelf. Because in the years prior to, and the almost-20 years since this book was written, Liz Gilbert has become an icon, an accomplished writer, a teacher and guide in mindfulness and love, and someone I ardently admire.
Which is why I was so devastated when I wanted to DNF this book.
Truthfully, were it not for my established admiration, and her new introduction celebrating its 10th anniversary that was included in my edition, I would have.
Because the Liz of the beginning of this book was not someone whose life I would have had any interest in reading about. It wreaked of privilege and/or shrewdness. It read as woe-is-me instead of eliciting empathy for her suffering.
I hated it.
But I kept going. Because I am familiar with the Liz of now, and I truly wanted to know how she got from there to here.
So I kept reading.
And it got better.
So much better.
Charming and insightful, possessing a self-awareness that I would not have imagined from those first pages. I understood by the end how it had become such a phenomenon all those years ago.
And as a spiritual journeyist myself, her actual transformations and experiences really resonated with things I've gone through in my own life.
Turns out that bit in the beginning that I hated was intentional.
And the follow-through was worth the persistence.
I'm glad I stuck with it. And can't wait to dive into the next memoir in preparation for her upcoming release in September. (Plus all her fiction too lol).
4.25 stars
Now to be clear, until Eay Pray Love, I had only ever read one of her books: Big Magic, which I have reread and still adore. Often lamenting that I should actually read her other work someday.
So I've started. Because all of her books are now on my shelf. Because in the years prior to, and the almost-20 years since this book was written, Liz Gilbert has become an icon, an accomplished writer, a teacher and guide in mindfulness and love, and someone I ardently admire.
Which is why I was so devastated when I wanted to DNF this book.
Truthfully, were it not for my established admiration, and her new introduction celebrating its 10th anniversary that was included in my edition, I would have.
Because the Liz of the beginning of this book was not someone whose life I would have had any interest in reading about. It wreaked of privilege and/or shrewdness. It read as woe-is-me instead of eliciting empathy for her suffering.
I hated it.
But I kept going. Because I am familiar with the Liz of now, and I truly wanted to know how she got from there to here.
So I kept reading.
And it got better.
So much better.
Charming and insightful, possessing a self-awareness that I would not have imagined from those first pages. I understood by the end how it had become such a phenomenon all those years ago.
And as a spiritual journeyist myself, her actual transformations and experiences really resonated with things I've gone through in my own life.
Turns out that bit in the beginning that I hated was intentional.
And the follow-through was worth the persistence.
I'm glad I stuck with it. And can't wait to dive into the next memoir in preparation for her upcoming release in September. (Plus all her fiction too lol).
4.25 stars
informative
I really enjoyed the first third of this book and felt like the author’s friend. The second part was quite heavy and needed a bit more understanding of meditation to get to grips with it, and the third got a bit more back on track. However, I was ready for it to end.
Tried twice but just couldn't get into it. Moved to "abandoned" shelf.
I liked hearing the stories of the people she met traveling. Anything about her own self discovery had me rolling my eyes. Whiny and BS - hard to believe any of the self help she offers when you know what happens to her life after the story.