mollywithcurls 's review for:

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

5.0

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There are very few things that I have in common with Cheryl Strayed. Just a few years younger than she was during the journey she takes in "Wild" our lives have taken extremely different paths. And yet, as I read this book I almost felt as if I could have been reading my own words, my own journal. She writes in a manner that draws a reader in almost imperceptibly until you can anticipate her thoughts and feelings as if you are feeling them with her. Never once does Strayed write with an air of superiority or elitism and yet she isn't self-deprecating either. She just is. Which is all a part of what she discovers while on the Pacific Crest Trail. Journey to self-discovery aside, a love of backpacking and nature is reason alone to pick up this book as anyone who has ever backpacked will find solace and humor in Strayed experiences on the trail.