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Thank you, sweet friends! Goodnight!

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SOAT in Maine!

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I am at the beach in Maine because I can only read when my 8 year old is fully occupied (in the distance searching for minnows).

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SOAT in New Hampshire!

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All the way from Danville NH! I finally get my favorite authors new book. Read the first couple chapters in the book store. I'm hooked. Love it. You're amazing!!!! Thank you for your talent as a screenwriter I always appreciate other people's gift and you certainly have a great one.

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SOAT in Sedona!

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On my way to Sedona so I decided to stop by the bookstore and pick up TSOAT to read on my flight. I wanted to tell you how full of gratitude I am for the serendipity that happened today! You signed it and I can't wait to read it! It's the little things sometimes!
Packing can wait, but a good book cannot…
Thank you Liz (and Ann)! Sending love, joy and wonder to you both!

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HELLO NASHVILLE!!!!

Here I am with my dear friend the novelist Ann Patchett, at her incredible independent bookstore, !

Same shoes, each other's clothing, interchangeable heads — that's me and Ann! And we freaky-Fridayed out this year because I just wrote a novel and her new book is a memoir (the extraordinary "This is the Story of a Happy Marriage" — out next week!). So basically, we are the same person, just switching brains temporarily.

Come see me in Nashville tonight! Event details are here (and don't get confused by the website….still plenty of tickets!)

http://www.elizabethgilbert.com/events/

SEE YOU IN A FEW HOURS!
LG

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SOAT in Jamaica!

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Looking forward to seeing you in Berlin in December. Meanwhile I'm reading SOAT in the Caribbean — at St. Ann, Jamaica.

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SOAT in Argentina, by way of Spain!

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Hola Liz! I'm reading SOAT from Argentina. I found it on a library on Madrid. I was happy with my discover! Eat Pray Love, was my favourite novel… my life in a book. Thanks thanks and more thanks!

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SOAT and Sidda in New Orleans!

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Hello from New Orleans! My beautiful cat Sidda was almost as excited about SOAT as I was. She sat in my lap the entire time I read it. We both loved it!

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SOAT in Nashville…which is exactly where I am, too!

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Elizabeth Gilbert day has arrived! Starting my day with your beautiful words and looking forward to meeting you this evening in Nashville! It's a special experience to meet someone who is an inspiration…oh, what to wear?!

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A photo of the young Beatrix Potter holding her pet mouse, or: WHERE DID ALMA COME FROM?

Sweet friends —

As I've been touring for "The Signature of All Things", I am often asked where I got inspiration for the character of Alma. Was she based on anyone in particular, or did I invent her out of whole cloth?

Alma, like most fictional creations, is an amalgam of many things, ideas and people. She is partially based on women in my family. She is partially based on me (probably more than I originally realized, but novels tend to reveal more about their novelists than we might intend!) She is partially based on bits and pieces of the lives of the many 19th century female botanists I studied while writing this book. And she is a very tiny bit based on the young Beatrix Potter (shown here in an adolescent photo taken LONG before Peter Rabbit was ever imagined.)

Many of you may not know this, but our beloved Beatrix Potter (whose name I borrowed for Alma's mother) was a quite brilliant young amateur naturalist, with a particular fascination for fungi and lichens. She very much wanted to be a scientist, but the field was not exactly welcoming to women, and so her life took another course. But she wrote funny, passionate diaries as a young girl about her forays into nature, and I drew inspiration from her enthusiasms and frustrations when I was creating the young Alma Whittaker.

Also, I love this photo with all my heart. Such a strange, beautiful, curious-looking and odd child! There is much of yoùng Alma in that face!

Thought you all might enjoy!

LG

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