Four Snouts Up for Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

(:)(:)(:)(:) for Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, still on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list. I absolutely loved this book and would recommend it to anyone who'd like a good read--especially if you're even vaguely into travel, food or a spiritual journey. Eat, Pray, Love chronicles journalist Gilbert's yearlong journey. She spent four months in Italy eating, four months in India in an ashram praying, and four months in Indonesia finding love.

Gilbert is wry, self-deprecating and hilarious in describing the disastrous divorce that lead to her decision to take this journey. As a working and serious travel journalist, she was able to get a publisher to give her an advance to take this year and write about it (dream come true for me). There's something for everyone here. If you love a good spiritual journey, you really enjoy watching her evolve over the year--I found her adventures at the ashram trying to get out of a key hour long morning prayer because it "wasn't for her" hysterically funny.

If you kind of hate spiritual anything you can enjoy her mocking herself and also her friends mocking her for this year. It reads like a wonderful novel and is suitable for moms--read this book.

(:)(:)(:)(:)(:) for The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor

Five Snouts up for The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor. This "children's" book is the imaginative, mesmerizing "true story" of Alice in Wonderland where we learn that Alyss is a visitor in our world, rather than Alice being a tourist from our world to Wonderland.

I can't say more than that without spoiling it, but suffice it to say that any person over the age of 10 (lots of fight gruesome fight scenes) should love this book. I couldn't put it down.