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Prompt 25: A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't
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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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Jun 08, 2015
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This was a quick and fairly enjoyable read. A story of growth.
It's great to read a frank and honest story about life, its struggles, our choices and the search to find ourselves (as cliche as that sounds). I've often experienced how a physical struggle (marathons, ultra runs/hikes, etc, in my case) can tear me down and rip me open, only to leave me with a stronger sense of ME. This book read very easily; it wasn't dreaded reading as I had anticipated, thinking that it was going to be a boring day-to-day diary of her daily hikes. I actually finished it in j
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I don't know what exactly it was that I expected from this book... but I know I expected more. I just found the story to be really underwhelming. I know it was supposed to be some sort of redemption story, a "lost to found" thing but I just didn't feel it. It did make me interested in learning more about the PCT. And I did enjoy the author's naivete/arrogance in tackling the PCT on her own with so little preparation (because it reminded me of my own [much smaller] venture into doing a sprint tri
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I loved the description another reviewer said it "was Eat, Love, Pray without the whining" and that is true. I will say I struggled with her reaction to grief and her inability to plan for a HUGE hike bit I did love the journey and where the journey took her. ...more
This was a DNF for me
Dec 06, 2016
Tara Nichols
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