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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Cheryl Strayed

Start date: January 1, 2017

Finish date: January 31, 2017

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Jun 21, 2012 Michelle Gragg rated it liked it

Before you read my review: Know that this is a book worth reading. This book deserves 3 and 3/4 stars but not 4, so I gave it 3. I really enjoyed reading it. Partly I loved it because it is the story of a woman doing something strong and independent while looking to grow and become whole. But, I felt it felt just short of the journey I had hoped and instead became a story of how she healed but grew only a little. What bothered me and keeps it from rating higher is her insane need for sex that po ...more

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Mar 03, 2015 Amanda rated it really liked it

Shelves: non-fiction, ap-language, 4-stars

This was an assignment for my Travel Group called Go Girls! It was amazing, and I seriously want to find a copy of the movie I didn't know exist until we met again. I felt it really easy to fall into the the mess of the memoir, about the loss of important people in your life and how sometimes you're always looking for something in the world and in yourself. I liked that there wasn't anything neat and prepared about it. I feel like I want to give this book more of a 3.5 than a 4 star, but I also ...more

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Mar 29, 2015 Heather rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: worms-book-club-pick

I adored this book.

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Jul 30, 2012 Katrina rated it really liked it

Shelves: gilmore-challenge

Thank you, Cheryl Strayed, for knowing where to start a memoir and where to finish it. All too often writers start long before the beginning and end long after the ending, making a spectacular middle of a book with early and late chapters I skip over, or drag my feet through. I appreciate that she didn't do this.

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