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Thank you, Linda, for giving me this book. The idea that reading the adventures of a woman traveling on her own for a year made you think of me makes me happy. I wanted to like this book. I really did. I wish I hadn't felt so irritated by Gilbert's depression-leads-to-self-awareness travelogue. I admit it's possible that jealousy is at the root of my frustration with her travels being funded by an advance on the book she promised to write at the end of the year. I wish someone would give me an advance so that I could substitute pasta for anti-depressants in Italy, or live on an ashram in India, or hang out for four months in Bali. It's too bad that the inevitability of a book coming out of her experiences makes it harder for me to see those experiences as entirely sincere. But, she did make me laugh a couple times. And I was happy that she seemed happy in the end. And I think everyone who wants to should live in Italy long enough to learn some Italian and eat as much as they please, just for the sake of eating. And it takes a lot of bravery to travel, and maybe more to write about it as honestly as she does.

2022-11-14 13:58