| Article: | THE READING ROOM: Little fulfillment in 'Eat, Pray, Love' For months now, Elizabeth Gilbert's "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia" has been prominently displayed in bookstores throughout the country. The book jacket describes it as "a meditation on love in its many forms." Writer Ann Lamott calls it "brilliant and personal, rich in spiritual insight." It's a bestseller that has garnered recommendations from the lips of unexpected readers and respected friends. And yet whenever I contemplated picking it up, I felt a tight knot of resistance. More than once I added the book to my Amazon cart, only to delete it at the last moment. |
