Eat, Pray, #FML

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My thoughts are that he is either struggling with being happy because his brother wasn’t or he no longer cares for the author like he thought and is trying to not ruin a month long trip by having her tag along. Especially if you are dealing with heartbreak, are in or was in a toxic relationship, or just want to have a great laugh at the expense of somebody else's life. If you’ve known him all of six weeks, he doesn’t want to travel with you, he’s not texting you, and not trying to meet up with you, then you probably need to stop saying you’re madly in love with this STRANGER and move tf on. Maybe if this book was shorter, I could have overlooked some of her vapid opinions and self absorption, but it was way too long to enjoy the story for what it was.Gabrielle goes through a pretty typical cheating–turned–divorce situation and then, the next day after serving her husband divorce papers, meets a new man and falls immediately into a new relationship. It was a fairy-tale romance for a month and a half, and he convinced me to join him on a romantic month-long vacation in Italy. I got tired of reading how pretty everyone thought she was, how “fat” she was getting (she gained a whole 5 pounds. Her trip to Europe was not very interesting and seemed like she spent most of that time drinking and partying with random people she met, combined in wallowing in self pity and being self absorbed.

But for real, the entire time reading this book, I literally just kept thinking, why is this a book?I Googled reviews for this book to see if anyone else realized how awful, boring and basic this book was. I’m listening on audible and don’t know if I can bring myself to finish but wish I know the outcome. I came across this book on my library’s Libby app, as I am trying to read as many travel books and memoirs as possible. Starts off strong but then dissolves into a boring washout of whirlwind travel fueled by lack of sleep, heavy partying and constant social time with strangers punctuated by long self involved ramblings interspersed with a tiny few grounded and wise "aha" moments.

I honestly don’t know how this became a book and had to check if it was self-published because I honestly cannot imagine any publisher or any publishing house reading this and thinking, “we can make money from this.Immediately I did my book review on good reads and in my notepad as I always do, and started looking for my next book. Not every single bit of it, especially when it comes to the book, but it's one of the few contemporary books that I have rated 5 stars. One could also drink every time the word 'insane' or 'incredible' is used to describe a meal, sunset, or bar. You booked a trip with him that is equivalent to the length of your relationship immediately after you filed for divorce, at what point did this seem like a good idea? She really could have turned this into something big, but with each page I turned, the more I realized that the author just wants to talk about herself.

Rather than stay at home heartbroken, she grabs a backpack and travels solo through Europe to heal her heart from the men who shattered her world and discovers that self-love is far more life-changing than anything she could’ve imagined. Second: I don’t know how many times in those 200 pages she guffaws at people and says “it’s a long story! It will lift you up and make you realise every decision you make in life leads you to where you are supposed to be.Who doesn’t love a women who filed for divorce before her husband gets home and watches him be served with them?