Reviews tagging 'Grief'

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

64 reviews

turnip11's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Cancer, Drug abuse, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, 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: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Terminal illness, Grief, and Abortion

adorkabledorcas's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

theblandfalafel's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Grief and Death of parent

serian's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

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

Moderate: Drug use and Infidelity

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, Domestic abuse, Terminal illness, Grief, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

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

adventurous hopeful reflective

3.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Child abuse and Infidelity

Minor: Child death, Blood, Abortion, and Pregnancy

◦ Body horror = Toenail injuries
◦ Drug abuse = Heroin

nstew16's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief