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'Pilgrims' is about special, good people doing unimportant, but pleasant and sensible things. Anyone who has read the book, would themselves like to be. Prefer a Gilberts pilgrims
"Eat, pray, love" by Elizabeth Gilbert read and looking for a similar book? Please no books on yoga and spirituality in hand, but read "Pilgrims", Gilberts debut which already appeared in the United States in 1997, and this year in an excellent Dutch translation was released.
Like Gilbert's bestseller about her journey to happiness is a Pilgrims 'feel nails good' book. But what for! 'Pilgrims' is not about the delights of Italian food or the pleasures of a small cottage. 'Pilgrims' is about people of good will; ordinary people, who wants the best for their fellow men have, without having it by itself.
Take fifteen Denny Brown. His mother is one of the best nurses in the burn ward of the local hospital, and Denny's father was an excellent psychiatric nails nurse, if the hospital nails had. Psychiatric ward Instead, he has built as private nurse wants to thank and excellent reputation.
Denny has no idea what his parents do, and they are so good at their craft, he certainly did not know. Denny actually knows anything. He does not know why Kalesky Russell, one of the boys who bully him at school, suddenly is nice to him and why Russell's sister nails wants to be his girlfriend. But if the Kalesky's get chickenpox, Denny is the only one who knows what to do. With patience he puts Russell's sister in the bathtub and covered her stinging and itchy skin with an analgesic paste of oatmeal.
Or take Rose, nearly nails seventy years, as a teenager, the heads of dozens of men brought runaway and touched her seventeenth pregnant. After the death of her husband she runs daily children to and from school. On a good day there are steps no little children nails in her bus, but older men - her former lovers. There are so many, that the bus is almost too small. All are equally polite and personable, they make silly jokes, and Rose has the day of her life.
All people who hit you, these twelve pilgrims; all without evil intentions towards anything. Even an old Hungarian, in a tantrum two people killed and his heart has been pledged to a large, white rabbit, knows how to move.
How is it that you have characters like Denny Rose and the old Hungarian, close all people who apparently aimlessly through life, right in your heart, and there she never wants to go out? Why do you feel so good after reading about all their trivial adventures? nails
The solution of the riddle is in Gilberts way of disks. As in 'Eat, Pray and love, "she makes you, the reader, to co-conspirator. She always takes you aside to explain how the fork in the stem. As in the case of Denny and his mother: "Denny nails had no idea that his mother had her burned nails patients, even those who at death were written, very calm and reassuring spoke, and she never hinted about the horrible fate that some of their waited. "
But the best thing is that all the stories in this volume have an open end. Like her character is Gilbert proceed without a fixed purpose, without entrenched principles and without judgment. 'Pilgrims' is about special, good people who seemingly unimportant, nails but oh so nice and do sensible things, and it was written by someone who her readers carefully and lightly through the lives of these people lead. A lot more is there to say about this book. Except this: who has read it, would most like themselves are one of Gilberts pilgrims.
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