Oh, the parallels..
Former writer and NYU teaching assistant (yes, Liz’s alma mater) turned sexual predator Peter Braunstein was profiled on the Daily Intel today after a particularly bizzare interview with the press. PB was arrested on Halloween 2005 after dressing as a firemen and sexually assaulting a woman for nearly thirteen hours. His named [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Eat Pray Love’
July 17, 2008
‘Hamlet’ on lockdown in new york, allusions made to Liz Gilbert
April 22, 2008
Love Food?
Can’t help but shouting out a friend and her marvelous, inventive cooking! Since we read about food in our Chick Lit novels, how about learning about some deliciousness in real life! Check this out!
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/living/fooddrink/s_562962.html
April 8, 2008
Time and Time again: Me vs. chicklit woman
First, let me apologize for my late post. As this is my first time with chicklit, it is also my first time with blogging. And, as I found out today, “Save” is not the same as “Publish.” So, my post was saved, and not published. Here it is, published:
This time, I [...]
April 5, 2008
Love to Eat (and pray?)
Finally, Fun Friday is back! Negative Nancy has been thrown to the wayside! Yippee! Though I must give credit where credit’s due: thank you Miss Elizabeth Gilbert for finally offering up something bigger than the plastic wrapped story of those strong young city chicks of the past few adventures.
What impressed me with Eat Pray Love was [...]
April 3, 2008
Sorry I’m Late!!
So I know I’m Wednesday Girl, but Thursday morning is almost the same thing…
I also agree that Liz Gilbert is very involved with men throughout the book even though this is supposed to be her personal journey, but I am not so sure if this is a bad thing. Maybe one of the essential ideas [...]
April 2, 2008
Exoticising in “Eat, Pray, Love”
For all of the shit that we have given Elizabeth Gilbert and her book Eat, Pray, Love, she did have the pluck to up and leave her life and rediscover herself, and I admire her for doing such a courageous thing with her life when she could have trudged on miserably. That takes guts. She [...]
March 31, 2008
Eat, Flirt, Self-Congratulate…
(the dude in the vid above hates Liz Gilbert more than I do!)I did a bit of preliminary research before opening up Eat, Pray, Love. Its author (Elizabeth Gilbert) is a hip thirty-something living in Manhattan. She grew up on a Christmas tree farm in Connecticut and attended NYU before establishing [...]
