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"This book will make you laugh and cry and laugh again. I didn't want it to end."--Emma Woolf, author of An Apple a Day The Best Gifts in Life are the Gifts We Give Ourselves... Eat Pray Love meets My Big Fat Greek Wedding with a sprinkling of Mamma Mia in this unforgettable journey from heartbreak to happiness. One winter, when her love life falls apart, Jennifer Barclay decides on Three Gifts to Self. One and Two are reducing her workload and staying away from relationships. The Third is a month alone on a tiny, wild Greek island. It's a chance to find another kind of contentment, one that comes from holding an octopus in your hands. She decides to stay longer, but just when everything is falling into place again, the strangest thing happens... "Barclay's beautiful memoir recalls both Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love (2006) and the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding, providing glimpses into the lives of people in a small Greek village and the process of healing from a broken heart."--Booklist
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So glad I picked this book up from the library. Last year, I visited Greece for the first time. Although I went to the popular island of Mykonos, my favorite times were spent on the island of Milos. The story made me feel I was there again and I look forward to going back again in the future. Although I really liked this story, at times the writing seemed choppy. Some parts didnt seem to be complete. Sometimes the author gave very specific details and in the next paragraph was very vague. I also didn't really understand the ending. There was a link to the author's blog. I wasn't sure if that meant there was more of the story. Well I didn't find a continuation of the book there, but I did find more information about the author