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4.02 AVERAGE
4.02 AVERAGE
Absolutely devoured it. Fantastic writing that was more relatable than I anticipated.
"But most of the things we had amassed in our shared life couldn't be split in half. Who would get the desert? Who would get the canyons or the campsites? Who would get the rivers and the sunburns and the songs that used to echo off sandstone walls? How could we divide those?...There were places in the desert I could no longer go, not because I was afraid he would be there, but because I knew he would not."
"But most of the things we had amassed in our shared life couldn't be split in half. Who would get the desert? Who would get the canyons or the campsites? Who would get the rivers and the sunburns and the songs that used to echo off sandstone walls? How could we divide those?...There were places in the desert I could no longer go, not because I was afraid he would be there, but because I knew he would not."
Listening to this story was healing. I lived in my car with a long term partner for a year and have since parted ways. We were drawn to open spaces similarly. The family pain and therapy epiphanies really spoke to me clearly in a way a book never has. Grateful for this one.
I mean…. It was subpar. In a way I was like “wow that’s a great adventure” and I def teared up at a certain part with the dogs. At the same time this memoir is one of my least favorites I’ve read. While I love the imagery of Utah and the desert I just couldn’t connect with the author. Felt vain and privileged and just… eh. It just left me with a bad taste.
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Say what you will about Brianna but damn she can write!! Absolutely beautiful storytelling.
I wanted to love and identify with this book, as someone who moved west and loves it and spiritually connects with it in what I thought would be a similar way to the author, but unfortunately I found myself in the group of people who ended up with a bad taste in my mouth at the end.
Basic white girl from Connecticut goes west, has a spiritual awakening on stolen land that she doesn’t once acknowledge, becomes an “influencer”, goes into slot canyons utterly unprepared (how has SAR not had to rescue her yet?), minimizes a growing substance use problem, runs over her dog with her truck while driving drunk in the desert, covers up that they were the ones that hit the dog, raises hundreds of thousands of dollars for said dog before coming clean about what happened, her marriage falls apart. The end.
I’m glad I listened to this through the library instead of directly supporting this con artist. If she had just an ounce of self-awareness, this could have been great.
Basic white girl from Connecticut goes west, has a spiritual awakening on stolen land that she doesn’t once acknowledge, becomes an “influencer”, goes into slot canyons utterly unprepared (how has SAR not had to rescue her yet?), minimizes a growing substance use problem, runs over her dog with her truck while driving drunk in the desert, covers up that they were the ones that hit the dog, raises hundreds of thousands of dollars for said dog before coming clean about what happened, her marriage falls apart. The end.
I’m glad I listened to this through the library instead of directly supporting this con artist. If she had just an ounce of self-awareness, this could have been great.
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adventurous
emotional
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adventurous
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Well written, strong imagery, very relatable as I hike the PCT solo and document the experience online. Deeply identified with the descriptions of the desert as I’ve hiked through it these last 600 miles.