Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

22 reviews

magnolia13's review

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

Wow, this book. I honestly avoided it for a long time, because I knew the story would make me sad, but I was on a trip and it was one of the only things available. As someone who has always felt more connected in nature than anywhere else, following Cheryl on her journey as a woman hiking the trail was incredible. Her story is an inspiration to anyone struggling with grief or addiction, showing how you can overcome and persevere even when you feel you are at your lowest. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Alcohol, Animal death, Drug use, Grief, and Infidelity

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

maus652's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Sexual harassment, and Terminal illness

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

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

mercedesconcepcion8's review

adventurous emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

such an amazing read! it will make you laugh, will make you anxious, will give you relief, and all the feels in between!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Addiction

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

asurasantosha's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Drug abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual content

Moderate: Abandonment and Infidelity

Minor: Alcohol, Abortion, Addiction, Drug use, Medical content, and Sexual assault

parasolcrafter's review

adventurous challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

this is a memoir where all i can really say is that im so glad cheryl was so open with her life in this book, giving us readers such an intimate look into her story as she took us all along with her on the pacific crest trail. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Child abuse, Classism, Death, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Abandonment, Abortion, Alcohol, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Terminal illness, Sexual content, Animal death, Cursing, Blood, Chronic illness, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Drug use, Grief, Infidelity, and Sexism

readingrainbowroad's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

3.5

Book: 3.5 stars. This book is at its heart one about immense grief and how people process it differently. I've heard this book compared to Eat, Pray, Love (which I've never read but heard the criticisms of) and I think if you view this book as another travel memoir, it misses a lot of the main heart of the story and what Cheryl Strayed was going through at the time. I think having gone through a very similar thing (mom dying suddenly of cancer) made this book incredibly more relatable and understandable.

Audiobook narrator: 5 stars. Would listen to Bernadette Dunne read 100 more books in a heartbeat.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Medical content, Animal death, Grief, Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Sexual content, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, Abortion, and Alcohol