Reviews tagging 'Grief'

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

57 reviews

questingnotcoasting's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Nov 2016
I really enjoyed this. Her writing style means the description of hiking the trail never gets boring, which it quite easily could be. It's a pretty inspiring story. Not that I'm planning on going on an adventure like that but I do enjoy reading about other people's. 

Nov 2022
I re-read this via audiobook and it was as good as I remembered. It was quite interesting to listen to it as I walked to and from work because although I felt tired sometimes, it was so far removed from Strayed's experience it was almost comical. I really admire how open and honest she is about her flaws and bad decisions. She writes heartbreakingly about her mother and I think it's one of the best memoirs I've read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death of parent, Grief, Infidelity, and Death

Moderate: Blood, Sexual harassment, and Gore

Minor: Misogyny and Sexism

tabear's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Medical content, Terminal illness, Addiction, Infidelity, Blood, Cancer, Cursing, and Death of parent

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Sexism

jesstele's review against another edition

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Abortion, Addiction, Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Infidelity, and Vomit

turnip11's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Drug abuse, Addiction, Death of parent, Grief, Animal death, Medical content, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Abortion

feathers4bookmarks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

3.75

I loved this story, it was a bit entirely what I expected, and I thought multiple times over “what were you thinking?!”, but it was an interesting and different read. The author wasn’t super likable to me,  and she has some really dark thoughts that she doesn’t hold back. I could see someone not liking the book as well if they just don’t like Cheryl and wanted a more likable person to read about. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer and Death of parent

Minor: Abortion, Drug use, Addiction, Alcoholism, Terminal illness, Grief, and Drug abuse

adorkabledorcas's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Drug abuse, Addiction, Blood, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Abortion, Alcohol, Death of parent, Misogyny, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Drug use, Excrement, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Suicide, and Vomit

theblandfalafel's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Death of parent and Grief

serian's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: 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