Audiobook: (fantastic narration)Cheryl's life is messed up, her mother died quickly form cancer, her marriage ended, and her drug abuse has reached a new, "never going to do level". She has issues blackening her soul, unresolved feelings, untouched goals and nowhere to go. One day she see's a book o...
When Cheryl Strayed was twenty-six years old, she decided to hike 1000 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail. She hoped that the trip would help her come to terms with her mother’s death and the disintegration of her family. I’m a little surprised by the reviews of this memoir on Goodreads. Some people...
I received this book from my boyfriend's mother who told me she couldn't get through it, but thought I should give it a try. By the time I had finished, I knew I had experienced something amazing. That seems to be a good summary of people's reactions to the book. You either love it or hate it.I for ...
Wild is author Cheryl Strayed's memoir about her three-month long hike up the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) in 1995. Only 26 years old at the time, she walked the trail alone. Though she had done a good bit of camping in her youth, she was not a backpacker. Her motivation was the classic seeker's quest ...
Cheryl Strayed tells of her time of hiking the Pacific Crest Trail solo. I enjoyed the story. I liked her inner strength that kept her going when others turned back. She grew up a lot on the trail and learned she had the strength to go on even when she did not have the skills. She learned what she n...
"Nothing did. Nothing would. Nothing could ever bring my mother back or make it okay that she was gone. Nothing would put me beside her the moment she died. It broke me up. It cut me off. It tumbled me end over end. It took me years to take my place among the ten thousand things again. To be the wo...
...who has a hard time reviewing memoirs? I mean, yeah, there are ways of reviewing non-fiction (essays, for example, are fairly straightforward as far as I'm concerned) but as far as memoirs go, I'm stumped. And yes, there is the bit where I'm trying to decide if the author is being self-aggrandi...
Wild by Cheryl Strayed is a literary memoir of her decision to hike the Pacific Crest Trail on her own as a way of dealing with her mother's sudden death. This book is a literary work and should be assessed as such. For me, the decisions Cheryl Strayed makes in her life are not open to discussion. H...
Strayed's essay "Heroin/e" had me crying like a baby, and the opening chapters to Wild, which rework that essay in many ways, had the same impact. It's probably not surprising then that the most interesting parts of this book, in my opinion, were the sections where she ruminated on her grief, her lo...
I read this as the upcoming movie looked quite interesting. I was disappointed at the lightness and self indulgence. I have read several "trekking" stories and this would be one of the weakest I have read
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