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Cheryl Strayed's excellent memoir of her time hiking the Pacific Crest trail is a journey not just on aching feet and with a heavy pack on her back, but through the trail of grief left behind by her mother's passing and the subsequent dissolution of the family unit she'd always called home.
Newly divorced, floating from job to job, idly doing drugs and sleeping with men, working service jobs here and there, Cheryl is lost. So lost, in fact, that when signing her divorce papers she chooses her own ...more
Newly divorced, floating from job to job, idly doing drugs and sleeping with men, working service jobs here and there, Cheryl is lost. So lost, in fact, that when signing her divorce papers she chooses her own ...more
I loved this book! Strayed's writing is sweeping and rich, effortlessly taking the reader on her journey. The memoir of a woman who is emotionally lost and searching for SOMETHING that she hopes to find to rectify her feelings of loss while setting off on a nearly impossible journey across the Pacific Crest Trail as a novice backpacker. I couldn't put this book down and I was genuinely sad when it ended.
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I came in biased, and had a hard time overcoming it. Something about the way this book was marketed really rubbed me the wrong way. Can't explain it...just wasn't for me.
That said, I enjoyed the book and appreciated what Strayed was trying to do. I think it takes a lot of guts to a:) try to change your life, b:)attempt a major physical challenge and c:) write about it and share the good/bad/ugly of your experience. Just doing a and b would be tough. Attempting c, and getting beyond your own emot ...more
That said, I enjoyed the book and appreciated what Strayed was trying to do. I think it takes a lot of guts to a:) try to change your life, b:)attempt a major physical challenge and c:) write about it and share the good/bad/ugly of your experience. Just doing a and b would be tough. Attempting c, and getting beyond your own emot ...more
What a great way to spend a day sick in bed. Loved the detail and the sheet bravery of Cheryl. The relationship with her and her mom gives everyone perspective on their own relationship with their mother. I loved it.
I really enjoyed this one. It took me awhile to get into it, but after she actually started hiking the trail, I was hooked. I connected to this because I love hiking and find the kind of peace in nature that Strayed also finds. Some of her revelations felt a little sudden at times, and part of me wants to hear about any interactions she had later on with people she met while hiking the PCT. Overall though, a great read.
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Enjoyed Strayed's progress on the Pacific Crest Trail, but way too much whining about her personal problems. Seriously, losing one's mother is difficult, but infidelity? heroin? Counseling suggested...
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I loved this! I love Cheryl’s style and use of vivid imagery. Wow!
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