Pleasure Reading Part I

Elizabeth Gilbert

Eat. Pray. Love

Chapters 1-18

Elizabeth Gilbert was in Italy. She came here for pleasure. There she made the acquaintance of her language-exchange twins: Giovanni and Dario. Gilbert flashed back to three years ago to tell the events that had catapulted her out of her marriage and into this journey across the world.  She  had a divorce with her husband and fell into depression. Meanwhile, she fell in love with David.  But relationship with this man was just a silly addiction. The relationship with David became a vortex of insecure addiction and withdrawal.  The only good thing according their relationship was the fact that she started learning Italian. David also introduced Liz to an Indian Guru to help her to find her own spirit.

For the purposes of changing everything in her life Liz decided to travel to  Italy, India and Indonesia—four months in each place.  She was going to find pleasure in Italy, devotion in India, and Balance in Indonesia.

In Italy she visited a lot of restaurants and tasted different Italian dishes such as pasta, pizza and some others and learned Italian.