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ValleishmanRye, NY

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Member since: December 2007
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My Birthday...: July 3
Hometown...: Rye, NY
You can find me...: At work in NYC or at a soccer match or basketball game for one of my 3 children
Surprising fact about me...: I am a triathlete
Favorite band growing up...: Grateful Dead
Last good book I read...: Amsterdam by Ian McKewan
My favorite drink...: water or mojito
Favorite website...: amazon.com

Valleishman's Reviews

Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India And Indonesia Books

A raw and explicit accounting of one woman's self-examination

character-lover, a homeowner, avid reader, a library-goer, seeking balance, a woman, seeker of fun and interesting places

DEC

2007

ELizabeth speaks equally well of the deeply personal turmoils in her life and the universal problems of trust, hurt, confusion we lal face as we move from accepting all that "happens to us" to realizing our own responsibility for our joys and our sorrows. Her diary of her travels and quests are both funny and heartbreaking; always real, tangible and believable. She has gone on a journey that has been internal and all over the worl,d and we get to see both of these landscapes through her descriptoive and emotion-evoking prose. I felt at the end that I had shared some small steps of the journey WITH... read full review »