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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert Read more about this book...

I was sitting there reading Eat, Pray Love when I hit upon: That's me in the corner, in other words That me in the spotlight. Choosing my religion on page 208. I was flabbergasted. I mean how many books quote my most favorite quote song and my most favorite line?

Some people will disagree with me, but there really are more than one road to God. As Elizabeth Gilbert, illustrates in her book, Eat,Pray.Love. It starts with a difficult divorcee and she proceeds to travel to Rome, India, and Indonesia in the course of a year. She takes the road less traveled in her journey of finding God.

The book is funny, inspirationally and uplifting. It draws on several religious traditions without demeaning or proclaiming one is better than the other.

The way she describes things and events makes one feel as if they are chatting with an old friend. Her sense of humor comes through and the way she dances fluidly around topics that would cause others to trip and fall only adds to an already well written book.

The way I picked is put them all in excel then programmed excel to pick a random name.

Aberrations-c-alexis

Surviving Ben’s Suicide-Stephanie

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Running away to the circus is an old topic but Sara Gruen does a brilliant job of making it work. This book, when first looking at it ,brings to mind the old adage never judge a book by its cover. I felt when looking at the book that it was an old topic and the circus really wasn’t my thing..or so I thought

When I actually read the book I was blown away. The character development was wonderful and this historical part of it flowed beautifully. There are some books that have no trouble believing that they are a made up story but some are so well written that you just have to remind yourself that it is a work of fiction and this is what category water for elephants falls in.

Gruen has two previous novels that had only enjoyed moderate success but after reading this book, I am going to hunt down the other two.