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Prompt 25: A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't
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By Ann · 67 posts · 992 views
last updated Jan 17, 2023 03:51PM
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Disclaimer on four-star rating: I couldn't get past the first fifty pages of Eat, Pray, Love and figured this would be a repeat performance, so my expectations were low. It was really more like 3.5 for me, as the unpreparedness of the author for her journey was annoying at times, but a well written memoir nevertheless.
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For most people, this is a book you’ll either love or hate. I’m most definitely on Team Love.
Four years after the death of her mother, Cheryl Strayed was lost. Her attempts to fill the void only took her farther from herself.
On a whim, she decides to hike a portion of the Pacific Coast Trail, despite having no previous hiking experience. Though she prepares as well as she can, she arrives on the trail will too-small boots, a too-large pack, and way less cash than she needs. Plus, a whole lot o ...more
Four years after the death of her mother, Cheryl Strayed was lost. Her attempts to fill the void only took her farther from herself.
On a whim, she decides to hike a portion of the Pacific Coast Trail, despite having no previous hiking experience. Though she prepares as well as she can, she arrives on the trail will too-small boots, a too-large pack, and way less cash than she needs. Plus, a whole lot o ...more
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 enjoyed reading about her journey and how it helped her to find herself. I am in awe at her will to finish what she set out to do! Much admiration!
This book is fantastic. I love the narrative. The idea of "staying found" is a strong theme throughout and one that is easy to understand. One of those books where I'm sad when it's over.
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