A good read
I’ve started reading books again. I recently emerged from a span of eight or nine years when I didn’t want, didn’t care to read for pleasure. I have been ashamed of that period; it made me feel stupid, shallow.
But I’m back at it, and it’s gems like the following (from Elizabeth Gilbert’s “Eat, Pray, Love”) that remind me why I must read:
It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated. The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve. Yesterday I might have been a glorious monument to somebody, true enough — but tomorrow I could be a fireworks depository. Even in the Eternal City, says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.”
Tags: augusteum, books, eat pray love, elizabeth gilbert, italy, memoirs, novels, reading, rome
June 17th, 2008 at 11:16 am
I love “Eat, Pray, Love.” Good read.
June 18th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
I loved this book. I have made so many marks in it where her thoughts, feelings, words, resonated with my own.
May 13th, 2009 at 8:00 am
I’d heard so much about Eat, Pray, Love and I was surprised to find it in the travel section of my local store.
I did much the same as Lexey, I found myself making notes in the margin and re-reading certain passages. I’d highly recommend it.