Elizabeth+Gilbert+Eat+Pray+Love

**I am reading EatPrayLove by the author Elizabeth Gilbert**. The book has got many great comments, like: "Eat, Pray, Love has been passed from woman to woman like a secret of life", and "A word-of-mouth bestseller. As funny as it is wise."

The book started with an introduction of the book that tells the reader how the book works. The author started to tell about if you were travelling in India you see at lot of people wearing beads around their necks. These beads are called japa malas, and are used during prayerful meditations. The traditional japa mala is strung with 108 beads. The author has decided to structure this book like a japa mala, because it is so structured. She has chosen to divide the story into 108 tales, or beads. Further on they are divided into three sections about Italy, India and Indonesia, with 36 tales in each story. This leads to a personal level for the author because she is writing this book during her thirty-sixth year.

Chapter 1: The chapter begins with the sentence:” I wish Giovannie would kiss me”. This sentence says a lot about the chapter. The main character, Elizabeth Gilbert, tells the reader about Giovannie that is an Italian boy who is ten years younger than her. She is in love with him, but she knows this is not the right time to go into a new relationship, because she recently went through a divorce. This is the reason why she has decided to spend the entire year in celibacy. The main character met Giovannya few weeks after she arrived Italy, in a big Internet cafe. Giovannie was posting a flier that said: "An italian speaker is seeking an english speaker for conversational language practice." Elizabeth sent him an e-mail, and then they met and started to talk and eat. For weeks they have had lovely evenings of new idioms and fresh mozzarella, but they have never kissed... yet