Lea Vecchiarelli’s Reviews > Eat, Pray, Love > Status Update

“This is the worst nightmare of every American parent whose child has ever run away to India to find herself”

I love this book

“I quickly ran through the list trying to see how marriageable I would appear in Indian society….I’m not a very appealing prospect.”

God I feel like I’m reading my journal

“the kind of English you can find only in India- which included such colonial words as ‘splendid’ and ‘nonsense’…”

god this is so true. I laugh so hard when people here say things like this, but my favorite is when they say “doubtful”

“the kind of English you can find only in India- which included such colonial words as ‘splendid’ and ‘nonsense’…”

god this is so true. I laugh so hard when people here say things like this, but my favorite is when they say “doubtful”

“Americans don’t really know how to do nothing” — me, alone in India, playing with a tennis ball in my apartment pacing around the room.

So far funny, feel like I wrote it.