Committed: A Love Story
The #1 New York Times bestselling follow-up to Eat, Pray, Love--an intimate and erudite celebration of love--from the author of Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear.
At the end of her memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian living in Indonesia. The couple swore eternal love, but also swore (as skittish divorce survivors) never to marry. However, providence intervened in the form of a U.S. government ultimatum: get married, or Felipe could never enter America again. Told with Gilbert's trademark humor and intelligence, this fascinating meditation on compatibility and fidelity chronicles Gilbert's complex and sometimes frightening journey into second marriage, and will enthrall the millions of readers who made Eat, Pray, Love a number one bestseller.BUY THE BOOK
Community Reviews
If you are interested in the history of marriage and how different cultures view marriage, this book is for you.
I admire her for putting herself out there to try to define what marriage might look like for her and Felipe.
I admire her for putting herself out there to try to define what marriage might look like for her and Felipe.
This book is very wordy, repetitive, and not an easy read. It's a very good book IF you read the first and last chapters only!
Listened to the audiobook. Interesting perspective on marriage, divorce, motherhood & the history behind it all.
Marriage observed from multiple perspectives, and filtered to us through Gilbert's retelling. Interesting.
After this book sat on my shelf for 9 years I finally got around to reading it. It has some interesting nuggets on marriage - philosophically, politically, religiously and historically that resonated with me as I prepare to walk down the aisle.
I like her writing: her vulnerability, candidness and conversational tone. This book is very much a series of reflections rather than a narrative or memoir as such. It was an easy enough read but I recognise that it isn’t necessarily groundbreaking or a page turner.
Basically a unique, frustrating border security situation and personal tale that she’s been able to spin into a public meditation. But I think unless your interested in your own meditation on marriage then I would not read this.
I like her writing: her vulnerability, candidness and conversational tone. This book is very much a series of reflections rather than a narrative or memoir as such. It was an easy enough read but I recognise that it isn’t necessarily groundbreaking or a page turner.
Basically a unique, frustrating border security situation and personal tale that she’s been able to spin into a public meditation. But I think unless your interested in your own meditation on marriage then I would not read this.
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