I have to admit that I am having a really hard time getting into Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir "Eat, Pray, Love." I bought this book several months ago. I can tell you exactly where I am in the book without giving away any spoilers. My bookmark is stuck after the author's divorce and shortly after her arrival in Italy. She is planning to take Italian lessons in Rome. After she leaves Rome, she will travel to India and Bali. I can't tell you what will happen after that.

My sister Elizabeth loves this book. In fact, when we went together to see fireworks on the Fourth of July, she found out that I brought my paperback copy of it so that I would have some way to kill the two-hour wait between claiming our spot in the grass and the start of the pyrotechnics. She picked it up and re-read some of her favorite sections. I tease her that she just likes "Eat, Pray, Love" because she and the author have the same first name.

Honestly, though, I understand why the topics discussed in this book would appeal to my sister. My Elizabeth visited a Buddhist meditation center in Vermont during her final semester in college last year, and apparently in "Eat, Pray, Love," the author does the same in Bali. I did enjoy reading about Ms. Gilbert's efforts at learning Italian and the beginning of her trip to Rome, so I will most likely pick up this tome again just so that I can finish reading about the Italian leg of the trip.

Regardless, Ms. Gilbert's ex-husband, the one whom she divorces at the very beginning of the story, is coming out his own memoir. Per "Publishers Weekly," Mr. Elizabeth Gilbert apparently embarked on his own trip to another country to get over the breakup. Must be nice. It should be interesting to see whether this new piece is a good read or an avengeful tell-all. Hopefully, readers will not be trapped between the two sides of somebody else's failed marriage.