City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

Since I heard about this book coming out, I have wanted to read it.  "The Signature of All Things" is one my favorite books of the last decade so I was ready for more Elizabeth Gilbert.  What a different book this is!

I can't say I didn't enjoy it (double negative!) but I do acknowledge that is it NOT "Signature" which was interesting, different and bold.  This book is somewhat trite, I felt, but underneath there is a message - and it's one not too far from the one in "Signature."  There are similar themes in these books.

Here, from the NYTimes Book Review:

Paradoxically, this open-endedness, this refusal of received literary templates, is what makes “City of Girls” worth reading. It’s not a simple-minded polemic about sexual freedom and not an operatic downer; rather, it’s the story of a conflicted, solitary woman who’s made an independent life as best she can. If the usual narrative shapes don’t fit her experience — and they don’t fit most lives — neither she nor her creator seems to be worrying about it.

I do recommend it, if you are a Gilbert fan.  Interesting..... I have NOT read her most "famous" one, "Eat Pray Love."
I guess I should give it a go.