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Prompt 25: A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't
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last updated Jan 17, 2023 03:51PM
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I'm not quite sure why this got all the acclaim it did (though I did love her other book Tiny Beautiful Things) but this was a sufficiently entertaining read and the portions about her mother and the pain she felt at losing her are well-written.
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I tried to read this book 2, 3 times? I finally received the book on CD and listened to it. I absolutely loved this book. The beginning was hard - listening to Cheryl describe her sad life with her heroin use, her marriage fell apart and her mother passed away. However, i kept listening and what a joy this book turned in to. I loved listning to Cheryl's adventure on the Pacific Coast Trail and the people she met. I loved the insight she gained - from being along for months on the trail and the c
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3.5 stars. At first I wasn't sure about this one...the first half seemed a little too much like Eat, Pray, Love in the woods. The difference here, however, is that while Elizabeth Gilbert did her world travels KNOWING she was going to write a book about it, Cheryl Strayed hiked the Pacific Crest Trail for herself. She didn't write this book until 15 years later when she had some time to reflect on what that experience meant to her in the big picture of her life. I liked how she structured her wr
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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
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This was a DNF for me
Dec 06, 2016
Tara Nichols
rated it
really liked it
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Jun 01, 2015
Christy Clements Hair
rated it
did not like it
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