LADIES, it took me ten years to pick up this book.  But once I did, I was instantly inspired.

Elizabeth Gilbert’s non-fiction book Eat, Pray, Love is the story about an average woman who seeks a new life somewhere beyond her comfort zone.  Overall, this book is the perfect summer read for someone who is desiring an intimate, personal, adventurous, romantic story.

If you’re reading this book because you’re interested in a woman traveling to Italy, India, and Indonesia, then you might get a little bored with Gilbert’s bio.  But since this is non-fiction, her background is pretty necessary to give context to the entire story.  Stick though the slow description of her time in America––it gets better…

While fiction stories focus mostly upon the plot,  this non-fiction story concentrates on the growth of a woman who began feeling unloved and unworthy, and later blossomed into someone whose love for herself was enough.

In Eat, Pray, Love, a woman takes the most terrifying step of her life.  And it was amazing to read it about––getting to experience 300 pages of a life rebuilt.  The takeaway from this book, for me at least, was that Gilbert was not some brave, wonderful woman.  No.  She was a scared, weak person who should have been wearing the Scarlet Letter on her chest the whole time.  But somewhere between India and Indonesia, she found herself and chose the life she wanted to live.

In the end, I give Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love 8 stars out of 10!