One that I have been planning to read all summer is Eat Pray Love. My personal goal was to get this book read before the movie came out on August 13th. Epic FAIL. It is the 10th, and I haven't even cracked it yet. I guess it is still possible, but not looking good. The premise was so appealing to me even though I didn't know all the details. A woman, looking to find out more about herself, embarks on a world wide journey to experience life among other cultures. I didn't realize that she is happily married and trying to get pregnant, when she decides her life needs to go in a different direction. Then she survives a painful divorce, before leaving on this sabbatical. I've got to read it. I know the movie will skip over fabulous details that the book embellishes. Okay, right after I finish this post....
Then while I was surfing the nets, I found this hilarious looking book on Amazon. You can tell the martha-ness by its title, Life's Too Short to Fold Fitted Sheets, by Lisa Quinn. She said that for a decade she wanted to be just like Martha Stewart. So she fashioned a career as an HGTV program host, author and columnist. Housekeeping, gardening, decorating, crafting and entertaining - she had it covered. But she was living a lie. She had no time to weave 3500 cranberries into a beautiful wreath. She never did alphabetize her pantry. She didn't keep up her scrapbooks. And she certainly didn't fold her napkins into creative origami shapes like she did on tv. Nope. She was an overworked and overwhelmed mother of two who could barely get dinner on the table three nights a week.
Yep. This book has my name written all over it. No better way to feel better about yourself than to find out that others struggle with the same challenges. Now - I just need to decide which one to read first. Sometimes I read two books at once, but that usually doesn't work out too well for me. I need to simplify. That's my mantra, in case you didn't know. Simplify. Simplify. Simplify.
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