DesiPundit (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
The precursor : A lot of people find Dan Brown and Elizabeth Gilbert's writing to be shoddy. I am guilty of committing the same crime. However, if a contradictory and sometimes obscure thought is 'out there', such overwhelming success is welcome. Salm...
Dostoy's Contemplations (Free subscription) | 05/02/2010
You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight. --Elizabeth Gilbert, from Eat, Pray, Love , p.115
DOWN and OUT (Free subscription) | 06/02/2010
Elizabeth Gilbert’s Committed is holding its place this week at #2 on the NY Times bestseller list in the nonfiction category. Committed skyrocketed to the #1 position just after it was released by Viking in the first week of January. I’m a big fan of Gilbert’s The Last American Man (2002), even more [...]
Chaos Theory (Free subscription) | 05/02/2010
"It wasn't just the men — women scolded Gilbert as well, suggesting she should just accept her lot, stay at home, and have the babies we should all be having. They had to, so why should she get away with...
Fluttering Butterflies (Free subscription) | 03/02/2010
I think I might be the last person alive to read Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. I somehow managed to miss all the hype surrounding this book with it being on Oprah and the best sellers lists and all. And I'm glad for that. I don't like reading hyped-up books when they're at the height of their popularity, but mostly just because I'm contrary. But then, I was looking at a list of...
MoviesOnline! (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
... grossed more than $2.5 billion worldwide. She next stars in "Eat, Pray, Love," based on Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir and directed by Ryan Murphy, which is due out in Summer 2010. Julia talked to us about what it was like re-teaming with her “Pretty Woman” director Garry Marshall and co-star Hector Elizondo for “Valentine’s Day,” her V-Day plans...
Literary Culture (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hardcover Fiction 1. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett 2. THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown 3. KISSER, by Stuart Woods 4. BLOOD TIES, by Kay Hooper 5. THE FIRST RULE, by Robert Crais Hardcover Nonfiction 1. GAME CHANGE, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin 2. I AM OZZY, by Ozzy Osbourne with Chris Ayres 3. THE POLITICIAN, by Andrew Young 4. COMMITTED, by Elizabeth Gilbert 5. HAVE A LITTLE FAITH,...
Red Lotus Mama (Free subscription) | yesterday
A couple of months after I walked away from my marriage my parents took me to Maui for some much needed sun, sand, and sleep. I reached out to the interwebs to recommend a good book for me to read. The overwhelming suggestion was Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert. And, they were right. It was the perfect book to...
Nancy's Blog (Free subscription) | 07/02/2010
My reading goes in spurts: a geyser of fiction followed by science non-fiction followed by something else. Lately I have been reading memoirs. There is no particular reason for this, but in the last few weeks I have read Elizabeth Gilbert's EAT, LOVE, PRAY (which is going to be a "major motion picture" next year), and Ayelet Waldman's BAD MOTHER. Next up: Carrie Fisher's WISHFUL...
Olsen Twins NEWS (Free subscription) | 07/02/2010
Dickinson diver helps Gators capture relay title Daily News - Galveston County The Tors 400 freestyle relay of Ashley Olsen , Hannah Ortiz, Ashley Kershner and Elizabeth Gilbert got sixth, as well as the boys 400 of Mason Healy, ... and more »
Spectator - The Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/02/2010
Books about marriage, like the battered old institution itself, come in and out of fashion with writers, readers and politicians, but never quite die away. These two, from the latest crop, are by women in early middle age, both experienced journalists with several books behind them; but Elizabeth Gilbert, a chirpy American describing herself as ‘a cross between a golden retriever...
Character Sketch (Free subscription) | 07/02/2010
... to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism. — Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia) *** "A master first shows himself in self-limitation" -- Goethe. *** I am going to watch Inglorious Bastards with Tom now. Yes, a movie! Another one! Me!
CAROLYN CASTIGLIA (Free subscription) | 05/02/2010
It was Shakespeare in Twelfth Night who penned the line, "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." Others just consistently brush up against greatness by accident. Like me. First Elizabeth Gilbert and then... John Malkovich. Two weeks ago today, he and I shared a moment. I'm sorry. Did I just say I shared a moment with John Malkovich?...
Gruntled Center (Free subscription) | 03/02/2010
Elizabeth Gilbert wrote a successful book justifying her divorce, Eat, Pray, Love . Having written about how terrible marriage is for women, she had to write a new book, Committed , to justify her second marriage. Family scholars have been worked up about this book because Gilbert claims that sociologists take as a fact “the ‘Marriage Benefit Imbalance’—a...
Celebrity Baby Scoop (Free subscription) | 03/02/2010
... month. In August, Julia will grace the big screen again in Eat, Pray, Love , the adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert’s bestselling memoir about a woman who travels the globe after her divorce.
