Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat Pray Love reads like atravelogue of 34-year-old Elizabeth Gilbert’s trysts to three countries “ Italyfor pleasure, India for devotion and Indonesia to balance the two; it isGilbert’s journey to heal her spiritual and emotional crises. Gilbert’scharisma comes through throughout the text, as does her wit and humour, all ofwhich make her very likeable. Women would relate to much of what Gilbertnarrates, from the feelings of emptiness, to her need to fill the emptiness, toher definition of soul mate.
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden: The story of Sayuri, ageisha who grew up in the pre-World War II Japan. The book makes prominentJapan’s archaic gender relations and paints a sympathetic yet exotic picture ofa woman coming of age. It also brings to the fore the rigorous trainingapprentice geishas go through, how the virginity of a geisha is sold to thehighest bidder and how a wealthy patron is acquired by the most popular geisha.
The Devil Wears Prada, Lauren Weisberger: Think your boss isthe worst boss in the world? This book will make you think again. Andrea Sachs,fresh out of college lands a job as the assistant to Miranda Priestly, theeditor of the famed Runway magazine, who, with her acerbic manner can make thetremendously beautiful employees of Runway wet their pants. How much longerwill Sachs bear with the outrageous demands her bossmakes to get that much-viedfor recommendation from Priestly for a job at any magazine?
The White Masai, Corinne Hofmann: An incredible love storybetween a Swiss woman Corrine who was vacationing in Kenya and an Africanbushman, Lketinga. This true story transcends cultural and geographicalboundaries. Despite knowing that she would encounter seemingly impossiblehurdles such as small cowdung huts to live in, the beliefs and traditions ofthe Masai community and the language barriers, Corrine moves to live withLketinga in Africa but the differences begin to erode at the very core of whatshe believed in.
P.S. I love you, Cecelia Ahern: A love story is cut shortwhen Holly loses her husband Gerry to cancer. To help her deal with theemptiness he will leave behind, he has written letters to her, one for eachmonth of the year, guiding her to cope and to move on.
