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Eat, Pray, Love - Book Club

So, it’s raining – again (*Donna) and I am fairly certain that Noah is somewhere building an ark. I am, today, ready to go. Seriously. It’s just been one of those days. At any rate, let us begin the process of change, transformation, renewal…one page at a time.

I give you Eat, Pray, Love:

So we’ve read the first six (6) sections…what reflections of your self have you noticed, if any?

Has the bathroom scene ever happened for you?

What did you think about her feelings regarding her impending divorce and her guilt?

Are you a “desperately” loving person?

Does this help or hinder a relationship in your mind.

Has reading the first 6 sections done anything for you thus far?

If so, share…

I have always wanted to travel (Egypt, Greece, Italy, Paris…) did reading her love of pasta and pizza give you the travel bug?

If these questions do not cover your own comments feel free to post them! The more the merrier ;-)

Please comment below.

TRUEBLOOD, HERE WE GO! (SPOILERS IN THE COMMENTS)

So, Sookie and Bill got hitched! Well, Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer, as it were! Good for them. That would, actually, explain the chemistry of "Night on the Sun"...true to the nature of the series, that make-up sex was explosive, albeit shocking! Seriously. I had to turn away (well Angel and Sequoia were sitting right there and I just couldn't watch that with a straight face while they were sitting there like, "Is she really watching this with a straight face?!").

I mean they were broken up because she continues to nearly die every episode because of his nature, really and then somehow he is redeemed by saving the very life of hers that were it not for him would not be in danger...

Phew!

Did ya get all of that?

At any rate, there are other character so let me just touch on them really quick before the episode starts:

Tara (depending on what part of the country you are from, you will pronounce this either tArra or Taaarah...I choose the latter, but I didn't exactly create the character and in the written series, Tara is white not black, that too has a bearing, I believe on the pronunciation).

TARA found her cajones, yes? When Mr. WTFranklin cornered her she was NOT going to back down...I wonder what is up next for her. Stand up to an insane vampire (whom I happen to miss *tearing up on the inside...) what could possibly stop her? Um, her crazy mother comes to mind. That woman always seems to unhinge her.

Isn't that sort of true with most of us though?

ERIC has been eluding to some very interesting feelings toward Sookie. It's not just, Oh-a-new-toy-can-I-play sort of thing. It's something more...if you've seen the previews you know exactly what I'm talking about. I can't wait to see if they are actually going to go there. And don't you think that might be a little bit strange with Anna and Stephen being married? I know. I know. We are ALL professionals but I'm not sure if you recall Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Brad was a professional, Angelina was a professional, Jennifer Aniston was a professional and ahhhh...anyway, this is about True Blood.

PAM. Pam my lover! LOL. I love her dry humor and Eric said that it was time that she made another. Now that was clearly under duress and we are so not out of the woods. We are, in fact, standing knee deep in deer crap, with hungry wolves hunting.

Speaking of wolves: ALCIDE HERVEAUX. That is all.

RUSSELL EDGINGTON has thoroughly and completely flown the cuckoo's nest. He has gone totally crazy and once you go there, you DO NOT come back. You have simply reached a place of no return. We will eat you, after we have eaten your children...(lalala sis boom baaaaa) now back to you Tiffany!

What the effing eff?! (I've decided not to curse anymore, pray for me!)

LAFAYETTE has a friend-friend in Jesus. I do feel some kind of way about that one (I really cant deal with the love scenes. Call me a prude but Good Grief how are we supposed to handle that? It was one thing when relations were implied, now it's just right all up in your face! Geepers. Oh but I love his sense of self (i.e. his gear!) and when his mother (Loving Alfre Woodard) said, Your mask ain't on, I can see my son...my heart just nearly broke into a thousand little pieces.

JESSICA is the saddest one for me. I love her so...just 16, forever remaining virginal over and over and over again (even after NOT being virginal) and heart broken. I would just NOT go there.

JASON is a total fool. LOL. I'm a cop! Well I'm almost a cop! HA! He and CHRYSTAL (sp?) what is really good?

OK, it's starting...

Logistically speaking...

Bonus! Now that I know how this text to blog thing works...I can use it to our advantage ;-)~. For now, just know that we will read the first 6 sections of Eat, Pray, Love - by Elizabeth Gilbert, and chat about it through-out Wednesday, August 25. We can talk, post, chat, write, re-write or whatever else during the day for 80% of us because of workload / work day. The other 20% of us will read all of the comments and post something after hours due to workload / work day and a general lack of time to BREATHE let alone blog ;-)~.

Capisci?

I, will of course, be peppered here all day ;-)~, just 'cause, well...I love ya! (Say this like Chunk from the movie The Goonies...that's my favorite movie! That and The Joy Luck Club - which serves to prove that I am, in fact, an adult. *TeeHeeHee)

For all intents and purposes, fortunate or -un, this is my LIFE ;-)~.

Aisis

Hello world! Just checking to see where this message will end up! I'm sending it from my telefonino (another inside joke).

Where My Girls At?

You're right here reading this blog ;-)~

Ok, we all know how much I simply abhor illiteracy but the above interrogative seemed…fitting, yes? And make no mistake, this quest is for MY Girls and has less to do with acquaintances and more to do with my circle, my cipher, the ones that I love and that love me right back. Which means, to me anyway, that I can let loose a bit (and you still understand where I am, where I have been, where I am coming from, and where I will go). Even though, let’s be honest, I am not the best at being a best-friend or a sister-friend. I am awesome though at being an SSF (Soul Sistah Forever)*. My lifeline to you gets disconnected at times, self-inflictedly. I am who I am and you all accept me for that and that means the world to me.

Enough about all that let us get on to the business of the blog entry for today.

So, here’s my thinking: as SSFs we need to be part of the solution to the world around us and not the problem. One woman out of whack is every woman out of whack (In my humble opinion). Having said that let me say this: When I come across something that is worthwhile I learn from it and I like to share it. I am working on me and I know that there are lots of kinks I am having the darnedest time hammering out, or finding the root cause of, at any rate. I also know that some of my kinks, are also your kinks, and vice versa. But wait…there’s more!

The kinks CAN be hammered, melted-down, and deciphered into it's many many parts. And knowing, as they say, is half the battle. So...here's the news that I so desperately (inside joke) need to share with you.

I am in love!

Again!

I have fallen madly, deeply, devotedly in love with a novel! Ok, you have all heard me say that before…BUT THIS TIME IT’S REAL! “I love him, I love him, I love him!” – fade to black, or commercial as it were…Thelma, Good Times (Circa 1970something). Remember that one? When her hair was corn-rowed all flyy and she wanted to marry that guy and Flo was all up in arms?! HA! Ok, back to the book…

Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert.

I love this book. LOVE not like. Like I love chocolate and shopping and the way babies smell and really really nice shoes and my Elizabeth Grady all day spa day (that only happened like ONCE but so what I loved it!) and good movies and…okay, you get the picture.

So here is what I propose. And yes, this is a somewhat selfish proposal, but here goes nothing: I propose an online book club, starting with this book. I do believe it will change the way some of us think, feel, understand the things we all do for love (the good, the bad, and sadly the ugly…this is not my phrase, it is the title of a Clint Eastwood movie, but it fits). I propose this online club selfishly because as women, we are BUSY but we do deserve and need TIME to ourselves to enjoy friendship and community with other like-minded women folk. Most of you know my hectic, red-tape of a life and I know yours so, the last thing we need is another PLACE to go on a day that could be used for doing other things (Studying for the LSAT, reading in my PJs that I’ve had on since Friday night and it is clearly Sunday afternoon…sitting at the beach, hanging around the wonderful man in your life.)

Wait.

Stop laughing, this is positive projection here!

HA! Anyways, this is my proposal. This is what I am going to do and I would like you, and whomever you would like to invite, to join me. Please invite people that you feel will join in the conversation with something positive or if they choose not to post anything, that is fine as well. I say this because I am all for open expression, but I am not all for male or female bashing (i.e. men are no good, women are catty, etc.). I don't see how this book could cast that sort of shadow, but seriously, stranger things have happened.

What we will do is read a given amount of chapters (in this book there are 3 “books” so to speak and 36 sections/chapters in each section but the chapters are really really exceptionally short. Some are a page long, some are 3 or 4 pages long…) and then give your synopsis/opinion/feeling each week.

Does this sound like a plan? It is a plan…Brilliant! You so totally ROCK! (a Finding Nemo reference from the turtle dad to the turtle son…this is why I need my SSFs: I’ve been hanging out with Boo-Bear far too much. Even he is like, “Ma…seriously?” Heeheehee

Oh yes, the movie based on this book, is in theaters, but if you want to chat about the book, in the BOOK club, reading the actual text would be optimal. Plus, we all know that the movie will lose some of its umph and trust me, you do not want to miss any of the umph it quite literally smacks you in face. You will say, "Did I write this book and just somehow forget?"

We will start discussing say Wednesday, August 25, 2010

I will update this information once I see how many folks would like to join :-)~

*Sidebar: There is some confusion surrounding the use of “a” and “an” (to be fair some people could care less…I, as you know, am not one of the care-lessers (lessors? Uuuggghhhh). Most of you on this list have cursed at me, or at least had your feathers ruffled (peacock, not chicken) when I have corrected something you have said (DONNA) or written (INGRID)…). Anyway, just so you know it is the SOUND of the word after ‘a’ or ‘an’ that notates which one to use. If the word sounds like a vowel use “an” (an SSF sounds like esss-esss-eff) if it is a consonant sound use “a” (a Unicorn…aren’t they pretty?). OK, go back and finish reading the blog…please and thank you.

(IF YOU SCROLL DOWN, YOU WILL SEE ME AND SOME OF MY SOUL SISTAHS! SOME PICTURES LOOK REALLY SMALL, I HAVE NO IDEA WHY.)

For all intents and purposes, fortunate or un-, this is my LIFE

Aisis