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A review by jendilemma
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
4.0
I really enjoy hate-reading books sometimes (see also Twilight, the Fifty Shades series, etc) so I thought I knew what i was getting into with this book, but I was completely unprepared to LIKE it.
It has a lot of issues - so much privilege and weird piecemeal cultural appropriation, for starters, and i'm sure plenty of people have dissected it deeply. I definitely don't agree with her perspective on everything and I wouldn't personally do an "eat pray love trip" or whatever (not that i could even if i wanted to!). But i had no idea that a fair amount of her writing on depression, anxiety, and sitting with yourself would resonate with me and actually feel both realistic and hopeful.
It has a lot of issues - so much privilege and weird piecemeal cultural appropriation, for starters, and i'm sure plenty of people have dissected it deeply. I definitely don't agree with her perspective on everything and I wouldn't personally do an "eat pray love trip" or whatever (not that i could even if i wanted to!). But i had no idea that a fair amount of her writing on depression, anxiety, and sitting with yourself would resonate with me and actually feel both realistic and hopeful.