“ Still, despite all this, traveling is the great true love of my life. I have always felt, ever since I was sixteen years old and first went to Russia with my saved-up babysitting money, that to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. I am loyal and constant in my love for travel, as I have not always been loyal and constant in my other loves. I feel about travel the way a happy new mother feels about her impossible, colicky, restless newborn baby- I just don’t care what it puts me through. Because I adore it. Because it’s mine. Because it looks exactly like me. It can barf all over me if it wants to- I just don’t care.
— A surprisingly excellent book about a woman’s sabbatical across Italy, India, and Indonesia, in search for a balance between the pleasures of the world and “God”. A journey in search for self and spirituality. Quirky/witty/funny and honest writing by Elizabeth Gilbert; I love the voice; very down-to-earth; I find myself giggling while I read this on the metro. Definitely inspiring and soul-refreshing. Once deterred by this #1 New York Times Bestseller, I’m certainly glad to have started “Eat pray love” when I did.
