Eat, Pray, Love

So on my list of books that I wanted to read was Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. This was such an amazing book. I haven't read a book in while that has spoken to me quite like this one. I do not know if it is because I felt a connection to the author because I myself am in a similar situation. The author has recently gone through a divorce and is doing some soul-searching and is looking for God. Well that pretty much wraps up my life right now. I could feel myself in the character and it felt good to know that someone else had gone through the same thing.

Basically she travels to Italy, India, and Indonesia and learns things about herself and life in each spot. It is an amazing book about self-acceptance and finding your spiritual side. The author is very lovable and easy to connect to. I learned alot from this book and it really made me think about my own life. There were so many lessons she learned and I loved to see her transformation. I would recommend this book to anyone who is looking at their own spirituality or would just like to read a good non-fiction book!!

The end of the book

Why is it that while I am reading, I can't wait to get to the end. I want to know what happens and how the characters lives change. But, as I near the end I get a sense of sadness. For the time that I was involved in the book, these characters were my friends and now our friendship is ending. Yeah, I will still think about them from time to time, but my daily interactions with them will no longer exist. I finish a book, set it down and sigh because a chapter of my life has ended and I know I will miss what I was just involved in. A beautifully spun tale of a person's life that someone worked so hard on because they wanted to share it with me. I know not really me, but you get my point. Well as I finished my book, my sadness lingers a little. But, I am sure that later tonight as I pick out my next book, that melancholy feeling will began to diminish and be replaced with the growing excitement of meeting new literary friends!