Reading: Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert

14 Apr 2010, Posted by Cape Town Girl in book club, 2 Comments

Have any of you read this? It was thrust unto my arms by my mother, who believes it should be read ‘by any young girl of marrying age‘. It’s written by the chick who wrote Eat, Pray, Love, and it’s totally different in that it is quite researchy about the history of marriage which is, quite frankly, depressing.

So far I have learnt that as soon as society started marrying for love, and not for economic sense, divorces started happening. Which makes sense because if you can want to marry someone, you can want to not be married to them anymore.

She also talks about how tragic divorce is, and how it nearly destroyed her.

Uplifting stuff huh? Haven’t made up my mind yet. Perhaps it will get better. Eat, Pray, Love was at least of happyish disposition. Plus it was about food and an inner journey. Just not convinced that marriage makes as a good a subject matter for a book as pasta and sex. To be continued.