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HBO Book Club: Oops! I Picked A Chick Book!

It didn't take me long to realize that I had selected a "chick" book as the HBO Book of the Month: Elizabeth Gilbert's "Eat Pray Love." In fact, it took me all of six words to start Ms. Gilbert's New York Times bestseller to figure it out: "I wish Giovanni would kiss me." Then, she goes about explaining why that would be a bad idea, beginning with the fact that Giovanni's 10 years younger and then there was the pledge she'd made to herself to be celibate for 12 months. A pledge that would come back to haunt her a few short chapters later. No wonder MamaJD mentioned at the ethicsfest that she chuckled every time she read through some heavy-duty chick thoughts in the book. She knew that ThomG and I would be gagging on them. However, the writing's good. As an Evangelical, I'm interested in Gilbert's year-long spiritual quest that has its roots in Christianity but obviously will veer toward Eastern religion later. I think I'll be OK, if I can get past Giovanni and his 25-year-old twin brother "with those giant brown liquid-center Italian eyes" that "just unstitch" Ms. Gilbert.



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.