Learning to Read Books: But She Still Hasn't Found What She's Looking For

June 22, 2007 at 4:06 PM | by egw | Comments (0)

Let's face it, there are times when you just can't travel -- or don't want to. Vicarious web travel can be a great supplement to boots-on-the-ground journeys, and we should know, right? However, our wise elders keep talking about these things called "books", so we decided to check out these paper dinosaurs a bit, and guess what, they aren't all a waste of time. Some of them are quite good.

We decided that if our members, editors, or both deem a travel book worthy we will give it our own little seal of Oprahooval and tell you about it here.

Our recommended travel books series may only take you on a virtual roller-coaster ride, but it may point you in the direction of a worthy travel book, or two.

Have a travel book you want our editors to check out? Send it our way.

If you haven't been recommended this book soon, trust me, it's waiting for you. Allow us to be the first to tell you about Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love, the story of the kind of sabbatical we either dream of or dread taking. Gilbert gave up a year of her life to do exactly what the title says: In Italy, she ate a lot; in India, she joined an ashram, and in Bali, she tried to eat and pray at the same time. (Well, almost.) She can't avoid finding the humor in everything she sees, but at least she's not at home dwelling on her painful divorce.

OK, so maybe subtitling this book "Search for EVERYTHING" was a bit unsubtle of her (or her publishers), and there is a smidge of "the treasure lies within you" about the book. It remains that Eat, Pray, Love inspired us to start planning our own fantasy year-away (or maybe just a week away). If this Nora Ephronesque heroine can do it, maybe we can too.

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