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 spiritual teachings in _eat, pray, love: one woman’s search for everything across italy, india and indonesia_
Posted in Eat Pray Love, structure, voice, tagged addiction, cancer, crisis, deep, divorce, Eat, enlightenment, gemini, life, Love, obsession, Pray, recovery, shallow, spirituality, travel on March 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
places left unfinished
Posted in Places Left Unfinished, character, chronology, flashback, setting, voice, tagged ancestry, awesome, biculturality, border, complex, craft, dark, exile, family, flow, fluidity, history, intuition, John Phillip Santos, language, malachite, memoir, mysticism, novel, Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation, precision, process, santos, spanish, spirituality, the bomb, timing, translate, translation, wood on February 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
it’s obvious that Santos is a poet. his use of repetition (“have all the Santos died?”), his precision, & timing make all the stories within this memoir intriguing & engaging. what i loved most about this book is the seamlessness between Santos’ family history & the story of his life. his craft is novel (no pun intended…or maybe [...]
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