Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

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

93 reviews

ashleyw2021's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.5

Found it quite slow but interesting, well written, emotional and inspiring. Took a few go’s to finish but I did enjoy it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Cancer, Domestic abuse, Drug use, and Sexual harassment

lesliesorensen's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring fast-paced

5.0

Thoroughly enjoyed. Her writing was a breeze to read, but the narrative style was complex and wonderful. I almost feel as if I've made this monumental journey with her, which is saying a lot considering how sedentary I am.

After adding the content warnings, I would like to say that ...

the part at the beginning about her mother's death from cancer was VERY emotional, like I wept -- but it was doable, and important to the rest of the narrative... But I truly wish I had never read the part about her mother's horse. If you are at all upset by animal death, absolutely skip that section -- as soon as she starts talking about going home in the winter and seeing how old & frail her mother's horse was. Skip it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Animal death, Blood, Cancer, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Infidelity and Drug use

Minor: Abortion, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

afion's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Grief, Sexual harassment, and Terminal illness

my_forest_library's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Death of parent

Minor: Blood

nataliebootlah's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

First book of the year and it was a great one!

After losing her mother to cancer, her close-knit family falling apart, a divorce, and a stint with heroin, Cheryl is desperate for solace. Impulsively, she decides to hike the Pacific Crest Trail, which runs thousands of miles from the Mexico border through California, Oregon, and Washington all the way to Canada. With only her will as her motivation, Cheryl sets out alone with no training and almost no money. It’s on the trail, somewhere between the Mojave Desert and the Washington Bridge of the Gods, that she faces her demons, both past and present.

Wild is a memoir chock-full of raw emotion, adventure, and a different type of coming-of-age. This is neither a how-to book for the PCT or a self-help book, it’s merely a story of how one young woman found her own way to heal.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death of parent, and Cancer

Minor: Drug use, Drug abuse, Abortion, and Sexual content

ophlie's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cancer, Death of parent, and Drug use

ejaw's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Grief

horizonous's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful reflective

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Cancer, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, and Grief

Moderate: Child abuse and Infidelity

Minor: Abortion, Blood, Child death, and Pregnancy

◦ Body horror = Toenail injuries
◦ Drug abuse = Heroin

mandaraffe's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Violence, Medical content, Terminal illness, Death, Death of parent, Animal death, Blood, and Cancer

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Addiction, Drug use, Infidelity, and Drug abuse

Minor: Abortion, Body shaming, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

asmale's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cancer, and Drug use