Committed, E. Gilbert

COMMITTED by Elizabeth Gilbert  Read ca Jan. 2012  This is a sequel to Eat, Pray, Love, the huge bestseller, telling us about the strange difficulties Elizabeth and "Felipe", the man she met in the "love" part of the first book, had in getting married. These obstacles were partly because of the Immigration Department, and partly self-imposed because of the desires and preconceptions that both of them, but especially Elizabeth, had.
It's not quite as fabulous as Eat, Pray, Love, but is still very good. I just like the way she writes, even if it does go on and on about some not-so-interesting things.

IDEA OF PERFECTION, STONEHENGE

THE IDEA OF PERFECTION, Kate Grenville -- OK, but not THAT great. An engineer is sent to a tiny town in Australia to tear down an old "Bent" wooden bridge. Most of the characters in the book have some kind of strange "personality disorder" -- don't we all? One woman, who has an affair with the Chinese butcher, is obsessively into cleaning and cosmetics. Both the female love interest, a quilt-making museum curator, and the bridge engineer are very shy and have trouble with relationships. Etc.

STONEHENGE, Bernard Cornwell -- Historical novel (at least physically) about the making of Stonehenge. Lots of conjecture about the society that might've built it, and how. Obsession, brutal sacrifice, deception, survival.