Reviews tagging 'Abortion'

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed

57 reviews

readingrainbowroad's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

3.5

Book: 3.5 stars. This book is at its heart one about immense grief and how people process it differently. I've heard this book compared to Eat, Pray, Love (which I've never read but heard the criticisms of) and I think if you view this book as another travel memoir, it misses a lot of the main heart of the story and what Cheryl Strayed was going through at the time. I think having gone through a very similar thing (mom dying suddenly of cancer) made this book incredibly more relatable and understandable.

Audiobook narrator: 5 stars. Would listen to Bernadette Dunne read 100 more books in a heartbeat.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cancer, Death, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Abortion, and Alcohol

kelleykamanda's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

3.5

A cautionary tale to what it means to be young and naive. Good writing, sad but moving story, a series of very dumb and dangerous choices.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Violence, Blood, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Suicide, Excrement, Vomit, and Abortion

gardens_and_dragons's review against another edition

challenging inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.5

I thought that this was a really interesting book about one women’s journey into the wilderness, to kind of save herself.

The hiking portion of the book was super inspiring! She was wicked badass even if some of the mistakes she made were anxiety inducing. Also great to see how mostly the hiking community treated her. 

 For the non-hiking parts of the book, I was always surprised at what she was thinking and doing. While I did not agree with the choices that she made, she was in pain and was looking to do what she needed to do at the time. Interesting to get to see how other people wildly different than you think. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Drug abuse, Infidelity, and Death of parent

Moderate: Abortion, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

edamamebean's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

This book is beloved for a reason. I definitely cried at the end, despite it being my second time reading it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug abuse, Terminal illness, Abortion, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexism, Stalking, and Sexual harassment

kristenreads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Drug abuse and Drug use

Minor: Domestic abuse, Infidelity, and Abortion

merylas's review against another edition

adventurous informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

While I’m not sure I would be friends with Cheryl in real life, I understand some of her mindset and (lack of) logical thinking. I have also been someone in their 20’s who lost a parent, no, their beacon, which set you in a path of bad choices endlessly reaching to be on the other side of lost. Unlike Cheryl, I did not decide to go (unprepared) on an a backpacking trip. Yes this is the story of said trip but it’s more the story of finding yourself where one might get lost. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Infidelity, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Abortion, and Sexual harassment

am4man's review against another edition

adventurous reflective slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Abortion and Sexual harassment

samtheowl96's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Cheryl's story is raw, moving, emotionally evocative. I feel further inspired to do the PCT one day, or at least, some form of backpacking. I also thoroughly enjoyed how connected to her I felt throughout the book. I waited in anticipation each time I had to set the book aside. The narrator captures it all very well and does a great job with the various voices and vocal fluctuations. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Rape and Abortion

caitlinkelly's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Drug abuse, Infidelity, and Medical content

Minor: Addiction, Blood, Abortion, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

annaofjesup's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Terminal illness, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gore, Infidelity, Misogyny, Medical content, Cannibalism, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Body horror, Sexism, Blood, Excrement, Abortion, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment