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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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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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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
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