Her sadness was ceaseless, but she kept it quarantined in a governable little quarter of her heart. In EPL the ‘characters’ are real people… and I’m glad I don’t have to hang out with them. The characters are magnificently rendered in Signature – small details bring them to life.
“Because time does not object to passing – not even in the strangest and most unfamiliar situations – time passed for Alma in Matavai Bay.”
In contrast, EPL is a short book about a short period in Gilbert’s life but feels like saga – so bogged down in boring detail I would’ve rather put sharp sticks in my eyes than keep reading. Signature is a saga, but has pace – it spans decades and continents but Gilbert moves the story along at a decent clip and it kept me reading well into the night. It’s been reviewed a gazillion times on Goodreads – there’s nothing that I can add, short of saying why it was a very different reading experience from that of Eat, Pray, Love. It’s on the very short list of books I could not finish – abandoned midway through the ‘Pray’ section because I couldn’t bear to read another whiny, sniveling word.Īnd then I read The Signature of All Things. And that Elizabeth Gilbert must be incredibly self-absorbed to have penned it. Excuse me while I cut myself a very, very large slice of humble pie.īecause I have never been backward in saying how much I loathed Eat, Pray, Love.
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