Eat, Pray, #FML

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I wanted to read a review that wasn’t going to treat her with divinity, as I had seen from everything after just coming across a short of her celebrating her cheating ex-husband led her to a best seller. 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. Not only do I think this reads like an extended, self-gratifying, self-promoting Facebook post, but Gabrielle’s consistent fat/food shaming made me want to scream and horrified me.

You can't rush your healing and you can't expect it to be linear or follow the path that worked for others. 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. Maybe I’ve just been exposed to unnaturally fascinating people in my life, but I cannot find anything remotely enjoyable in any single character in this book. In viewing her social media accounts any time anyone asks why the age matters, the author responds that it is just a fact.

Some people chose to hermit and close of from the world, some people chose to go out and party and drink. She takes us on a journey around Europe and the most description we get is about her social media posts and how F***ing inspiring she is. I am counting this toward my reading goal even though I didn't finish because the last few chapters before I gave up were a slog. But for real, the entire time reading this book, I literally just kept thinking, why is this a book? When Gabrielle is not showering herself with compliments, she’s writing about how much everybody is obsessed with and loves her and would do anything for her.

I Googled reviews for this book to see if anyone else realized how awful, boring and basic this book was.She made multiple comments throughout the book about how all these men thought she was beautiful, incredible, cute. I found out about your book just after I had 2 freaking roller coaster relationships and were stuck in the third. One woman's journey through love, marriage, divorce and how she decides to change her own life afterwards.

Many of us have dealt with heartbreak, deceit, anxiety, being led on, falling in love, and going a tad bit crazy… but all of that was lost in a sea of self obsession.We get it, you told the “short version” of your story (yeah right) and their eyes widened and their jaws dropped. But I had no way of visualizing or experiencing it for myself because there was no actual description. 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? But if you go to her instagram and look at that day, and the swimsuit she is in, she obviously is still a size 2 and multiple comments on how they want her abs. The entire book was about Javier which, is beyond insane since you “dated” a month, meanwhile you were married for 2 years and together for 5.

Then she talks about finally realizing she needs to learn to be alone and immediately hooks up with a 23 year old who she later tells him he’s helped her realize and get past Javier. 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.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.