Elizabeth, here I come!

FINALLY! I get to see and hear and be in the same room as Elizabeth Gilbert, author of the acclaimed Eat Pray Love! She is going to be at the Charles W. Eisemann Center in Richardson, and I am going to see her next week! For those of you who read my post "Attraversiamo", you already know how I feel about this book. It is beautiful. And if I didn't already think the world of Ms. Gilbert, I found a short story online that she had written for the Paris Review back in 1996. It was perfection. I don't know that I have ever related to someone's writing style as much as I do hers. That being said, while I would really like to read a couple of other books she has written, I don't know that they would capture my interest in quite the same way. One is called Pilgrims, a collection of short stories that - come to think of it - I definitely want to read now especially after reading that Paris Review short story. And the other is called Stern Men. It's about a woman who was raised around a bunch of lobsterman - at least that's what I gathered from the few lines I read on Amazon. Anyway, now that I actually read those summaries, I do think I want to read them both. Wonder if I could have them both read before I go see her on Tuesday? Yeah right. I'm not that fast of a reader. But I must ask everyone to cross their fingers for me that we will have the opportunity to get our book signed. I would faint right then and there!