Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Short review: This is a sort of follow up book to Eat, Pray, Love. I did not read Eat, Pray, Love so I am saying this based on what I have heard, this is a very different type of book. Committed is an exploration of marriage. Gilbert is perfectly happy in a long term, committed, but not married relationship. When her ‘boyfriend' is prevented from entering the US after a number of months of them living together in and out of the US, they realize that their only option to be together is for them to get married. The majority of the book is about her research into marriage, in large part to talk herself into marriage.

It is less memoir than a non-fiction book on marriage (with lots of sociology, psychology, ethnographic research, etc.) that is framed using her own story. I really enjoyed it, but did not have much interest in Eat, Pray, Love. I did watch the movie after I read Committed, and liked the movie more than I thought I would. I may read it later.

Full review on my blog at http://bookwi.se/committed-gilbert/