Well Seasoned Reader Challenge
Book one of three.
Well Seasoned Reader Challenge
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Published by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2006
334 pages
Non-Fiction
This is the author's very personal story of her "search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia". Each country that she visits has something special waiting for her, and it becomes a rewarding year of self-discovery and healing. Elizabeth Gilbert has an informal style of writing (conversational) that I enjoy very much. There is plenty of humour sprinkled throughout the book as well as wonderful insights into the major questions of life. She is direct and honest about her experiences, and it is a book I wouldn't mind having on my bookshelf. I borrowed this particular copy from the library.
Books Read 2012
1. Half-Blood Blues/Esi Edugyan(18/01/12) A gripping and heart wrenching story.
2. The Yellow Wallpaper/Charlotte Perkins Gilman(04/12)
3. Seasons of Poetry/compiled by Caroline Foley(04/05/12) art and poems
4. The Secret Garden/Frances Hodgson Burnett(08/05/12) beautiful descriptions of the garden and a lesson in positive thinking.
5. Where the Sidewalk Ends (30th Anniversary Special Edition)/Shel Silverstein(23/05/12) poems and drawings
6. Last of the Curlews/Fred Bodsworth(29/05/12)
Books Read 2011
1. A Study in Scarlet /Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (04/01/11) - a Sherlock Holmes detective mystery set in London & Utah, 19th century.
2. Light Lifting/Alexander MacLeod (06/01/11) - seven wonderful stories.
3. Nature Girl/Carl Hiaasen (25/01/11) - a humorous tale set mainly in Florida.
4. Ines of My Soul/Isabel Allende (04/02/11) - 16th century South America.
5. The Sentimentalists/Johanna Skibsrud (08/02/11)
6. The Gardens of Kyoto/Kate Walbert (22/02/11)
7. The Razor's Edge/W. Somerset Maugham (13/04/11) - first person narrative.
8. Friends, Lovers, Chocolate/Alexander McCall Smith (18/04/11) - mystery featuring Isabel Dalhousie, 2nd book in a series.
9. What I Didn't See:Stories/Karen Joy Fowler (29/04/11) - I enjoyed these unusual stories.
10. The Uncommon Reader/Alan Bennett(07/05/11) - very entertaining.
11. The End of the Affair/Graham Greene(16/05/11)
12. The Hours/Michael Cunningham(30/05/11)
13. A Midsummer Night's Dream/William Shakespeare (08/06/11) - The New Folger Library edition, annotated. Great comedy.
14. Angel Wing Splash Pattern/Richard Van Camp (02/07/11) - 5th Annual Canadian Book Challenge
15. You Went Away/Timothy Findley (03/07/11) - 5th Annual Canadian Book Challenge
16. Fierce/Hannah Holborn (15/07/11) - 5th Annual Canadian Book Challenge
17. a Song for Nettie Johnson/Gloria Sawai (29/07/11) - 5th Annual Canadian Book Challenge
18. Taft/Ann Patchett (15/12/11)
19. A Wrinkle in Time/Madeleine L'Engle (31/12/11)
20. Rebecca/Daphne du Maurier(12/11)
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert