Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love, (2006) “In the end, maybe it’s wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.” Eat, Pray, Love is a unique balance between autobiography and other worldly story. Gilbert depicts her pursuitContinue reading “A Personal Search for Everything”
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Running with the Kenyans
Adharanand Finn, Running with the Kenyans (2012) A staple of any runners library, the story told in Running with the Kenyans is perhaps pretty obvious. However, as a process of discovery there are a number of twists and turns. As the extended title suggests the mission is ‘Discovering the secrets of the fastest people onContinue reading “Running with the Kenyans”
An American Abroad in a Post-American World
Suzy Hansen, Notes on a Foreign Country. An American Abroad in a Post-American World (2017) Hansen’s work is a mix of self-realization, historical education and anger at a personally misplaced sense of American exceptionalism. Told from her experiences of moving to Istanbul from New York under the cloud of scaremongering headlines about the “Muslim World”.Continue reading “An American Abroad in a Post-American World”
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