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Title: Entertaining but not sustaining...
Review: It was a perfect commute read. Went down easy but didn't sustain. Once I closed the cover, poof, it vanished, the literary equivalent of junk food. I was also perplexed that the author determined in Italy her only (apparently) source of pleasure would be food and that she did not take advantage of all the art, history, culture, architecture and music that are also there to be enjoyed. Often, I found her descriptions of eating and food kind of gluttonous. As a practitioner of yoga myself, I was surprised that she seemed to lean so heavily on her guru for insight and guidance. She mentioned nothing of learning to follow the "inner teacher" which is what yoga is supposed to help you do. If you come to the book with low or no expectations, you'll probably like it. If you come thinking you (or she) are going to have some earthshaking epiphanies, you'll be disappointed.
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