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4.02 AVERAGE
4.02 AVERAGE
adventurous
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death
adventurous
challenging
emotional
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
adventurous
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
I’d never heard of the author before checking out the audiobook so I had no preconceptions about her story. She’s a good speaker and I enjoyed the story pacing and descriptive narrative (though, truly, I’ve never heard the word “juniper” so many times in my life!). The section about Dagwood’s injury made me tear up and I appreciated her honesty in presenting the facts and the emotions involved there. What took away from my enjoyment was the social media influencer aspect, which came after a good chunk of the story had already been told. I do find the concept of social media influencers pretty strange owing to the parasocial relationships their followers develop with someone whose highly curated existence reveals only a fraction of who the influencer is as a person. The influencer does not know or care who any given follower is; the nature of the connection is that of content producer and content consumer, not a friendship of equals. The author acknowledged Dagwood’s Gofundme page raised more than that received by many humans. Ethically, I have a problem with that but I’m not interested in seeking out further details about her or whatever scandal evolved in the wake of her coming clean about what really happened. She’s just a person with the same amount of positive and negative attributes as anyone else. I did like that the story was framed as being still in progress, rather than winding up with a neat “and they lived happily ever after”-type ending—even though that last section had a good dozen further mentions of the bloody juniper trees.
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
slow-paced
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
sad
fast-paced
Very inspiring and well written!
This book is captivating, Bri brings you along her life journey in such an enveloping way; sharing her joys, tragedies, lessons and true experiences through it all. She reminds you that adventuring is for everyone, and that through hard times, there truly is good that comes out of it all. Even if you only see it in hindsight.
This book will make you laugh, cry and reflect on all that has led you to where you are today. Encouraging you to create the life YOU want and need for your soul to thrive.
This is my go-to book when I feel doubts about myself, or when I begin to feel the sadness of depression seep into my bones. Gently reminding you that anything is possible; to just dance and enjoy the music....don't anticipate for the song to end so soon.
Society gives you a set of rules to go by.....Bri throws those rules out the window (metaphorically...LNT y'all), pushes her cow-print boots to the petal of a big ass orange van, and heads down a long road to nowhere.
This book will make you laugh, cry and reflect on all that has led you to where you are today. Encouraging you to create the life YOU want and need for your soul to thrive.
This is my go-to book when I feel doubts about myself, or when I begin to feel the sadness of depression seep into my bones. Gently reminding you that anything is possible; to just dance and enjoy the music....don't anticipate for the song to end so soon.
Society gives you a set of rules to go by.....Bri throws those rules out the window (metaphorically...LNT y'all), pushes her cow-print boots to the petal of a big ass orange van, and heads down a long road to nowhere.
When I started following Brianna Madia on Instagram, she had two dogs and had just moved into a fantastic orange van. She seemed brave and interesting and turned into one of the only Instagram accounts I would readily seek out specifically to read the captions and to see what Bucket and Dagwood were up to.
Her journey inspired me to be brave and not follow the expected timeline society has dictated. It was because of her that I ended up packing my things in two large suitcases and moving to Europe.
When she announced she was writing a book, I was so excited to read it. I wanted more of her writing, as much as I could get, and when I finally got it in my hands - it was everything I wanted it to be and more. The words that came from the page gave me anxiety when she was anxious, sparked sadness when she was upset, and gave a new life to people and dogs that I had read about on Instagram. It made me understand her better and brought back memories from days when I remember reading her stories on Instagram.
I’ve already sent my mom a few quotes from the book and I plan to tell every adventurer I know, and everyone who knows me, to read this book. It will make you feel okay to be scared and brave, ready to try new adventures even if there are some setbacks along the way.
Her journey inspired me to be brave and not follow the expected timeline society has dictated. It was because of her that I ended up packing my things in two large suitcases and moving to Europe.
When she announced she was writing a book, I was so excited to read it. I wanted more of her writing, as much as I could get, and when I finally got it in my hands - it was everything I wanted it to be and more. The words that came from the page gave me anxiety when she was anxious, sparked sadness when she was upset, and gave a new life to people and dogs that I had read about on Instagram. It made me understand her better and brought back memories from days when I remember reading her stories on Instagram.
I’ve already sent my mom a few quotes from the book and I plan to tell every adventurer I know, and everyone who knows me, to read this book. It will make you feel okay to be scared and brave, ready to try new adventures even if there are some setbacks along the way.
adventurous
reflective
Was neat to finally read the book by a person I’ve followed on Instagram for some time now. Felt good to see a snapshot into someone’s else’s life. A life that isn’t perfect. It felt relatable, not knowing exactly what you want to do at any given moment, and not having your life straight. Also really want to live out of my truck now.
adventurous
emotional
inspiring
medium-paced