addictive and easy like popcorn, deep like nutritional yeast glazed popcorn

Why did I like Eat, Pray, Love? What techniques did the author use that drew me into the story and kept me going?
I wasn’t prepared to keep turning the pages. My girlfriend, who had to read it for a book project she’s working on, described it as “like watching an episode of Oprah in [...]

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Truth-telling and making choices

Eat, Pray, Love highlighted for me, more than any other memoir we’ve read thus far, the complex relationship between making choices about what to include and how that relates to telling the truth in a work of nonfiction.
Elizabeth Gilbert begins her memoir with this quote from Sheryl Louise Moller (who we later find out is a friend of [...]

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Eat Pray Love: Food for Thought

Eat Pray Love: Food for Thought
Eat Pray Love reminded me of a self-help book, but not in a prescriptive, “you should do this, or know this” kinda way. The first time I picked up the book early last year, I couldn’t get into it. Now, that the hype has subsided and I have cracked [...]

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God In The Universalized Experience or My First God

Sometimes I feel as if I live in a cultural bubble, smack dab in the middle of San Francisco Bay. I got used to it as a kid, living in a Russian immigrant household with older parents, and generally I just nodded along with friends. Then in college I tried to catch up [...]

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New Bible?

I heard about this book, Eat, Pray, Love months ago. I saw both shows on Oprah where Elizabeth Gilbert was the star. I stared in amazement at the women on Oprah who one by one stood up and called this book, “their new bible.” They prattled on how the book changed their [...]

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Spirituality in Friendly, Digestible Pieces

I came into Eat Pray Love with some healthy cynicism. My mom had been recommending the book to me for months. And a few weeks before beginning it for this class, I was in my weekly astrology class, participating in a chart reading for a woman who had recently ended a 20-year marriage and [...]

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There is no time like emotional time

For me reading this book all I could think of was the author doing her big interview on Oprah and oh how they laughed and enjoyed the novelty of having a best selling novel about traveling, learning, taking a spiritual and lifetime journey, about being exhausted and keeping up with the Jones about real paths [...]

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the spiritual teachings in _eat, pray, love: one woman’s search for everything across italy, india and indonesia_

i didn’t want to read this book. not really. i know it’s a bestseller, & usually that’s enough of a reason to hate a book. i prefer the NY Times Notables, personally. why is this book so loved? i wanted to know.
well. when gilbert’s character finds herself in a pool of her own snot & [...]

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The story of two brothers.

I enjoyed Brother, I’m Dying’s family stories peppered throughout the book. The particular details Danicat chooses to reveal drew me in as a reader. Two examples that come to mind are about Uncle’s suit that looked like silk, but a combination of cotton and lycra, and also the eating of rice—as their daily fare, also [...]

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Within the frame

I read Brother, I’m Dying very slowly. Not out of fear of missing something important, but because I wanted to relish and enjoy every word by Danticat. I savored each chapter the way I used to eat the chocolate covered cherries (the only gourmet candy I asked for) that my mom gave me [...]

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