Eat Pray Love

Yet another book that I like in some ways and don't like it in some other. This is a travelogue of the author. She is a divorcee and travels through Italy, India and Indonesia. She enjoys the food at Italy, the prayer and meditation in India and she finds love in Indonesia. While I enjoyed the Italy part and Indonesia part, I did not quite enjoy the India part. I could be biased since I am from India and though her description of everything seemed OK, sometimes it felt like a drag. There is some humor in her observation and I personally think that the book is such a hit because of her talented and very honest writing.

Some humor:
"Here in Rome, the pope's health is recorded daily in the newspaper, very much like weather, or the TV schedule. Today the pope is tired. Yesterday, the pope was less tired than he is today. Tomorrow we expect that the pope will not be quite so tired as he was today."

"In Bali, there are only four names that the majority of the population give to their children, regardless of whether the baby is a boy or a girl. The names are Wayan, Made, Nyoman and Ketut. Translated, these names mean simply First, Second, Third and Fourth, and they connotate birth order."