Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

56 reviews

emmak2012's review against another edition

adventurous informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

I sometimes find memoirs overly self-indulgent, so I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this book. I felt almost disappointed at the end as I wanted the journey to keep going! I found it a little difficult to get through the descriptions of Cheryl’s mother’s illness, but that was due to personal experience and not a reflection on the quality of the writing, which flowed well throughout the book and conjured some wonderful images of the PCT. While I like my sofa too much to do anything like Cheryl did, her story has reminded me that there is a big world out there waiting to be explored and that grief should not be a barrier to living life to the fullest. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Cancer, and Animal death

idesofmarch's review

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Child death and Sexual harassment

loesm's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Cancer, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Animal death, Abandonment, and Abortion

laura_nel13's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Cancer, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Terminal illness, Infidelity, Drug abuse, Suicide, Sexual content, Drug use, Toxic relationship, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Vomit, Abortion, Pregnancy, Medical content, and Domestic abuse

orchidd's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective

4.0

the description of

the death of lady, the horse

was excellently, horribly paced—very memorable. i found myself uninterested in a lot of the descriptions of the trail but strayed’s ruminations on her mother (particularly the fox on the trail and the section where she describes feeling anger at her mother, especially her anger that she died when strayed was young, keeping her trapped a child) will stay with me 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Animal death, and Grief

Moderate: Infidelity, Sexism, Alcohol, Cursing, Death, Misogyny, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, and Addiction

Minor: Abortion

beccah42's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Death of parent, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Cancer and Abortion

simranpahwa's review against another edition

adventurous

3.0

Good book about grief and overcoming it. I definitely don’t agree with everything she did but I guess that was part of her process. Still, I don’t feel like she was great person just because she walked the PCT… she did plenty of things to hurt others with literally no regard for them. Just because you are hurting doesn’t give you the right to hurt others. But the fact that she was able to acknowledge that she caused pain was in a sense also comforting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer

Moderate: Sexual content and Drug use

ominousevent's review against another edition

I enjoyed Strayed's Dear Sugar columns, back in the day when she was Sugar, and this book had been vaguely on my radar for a long time. I'm not sure how much I enjoyed it, in the end; I appreciate the emotional journey she shares, and likewise her experiences of hiking and the environments she travelled through, but ultimately it all felt a bit empty and unsatisfying. Maybe partly due to the narration, maybe a failure on my part to connect with the-author-as-character. I can't really put my finger on it at all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death of parent, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Cancer, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Drug abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Infidelity, Abortion, and Drug use

kmgard's review

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Cancer, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Animal death

neliadiedenise's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Abortion, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Addiction, Animal death, Grief, Terminal illness, Cancer, Death of parent, and Infidelity