Reviews tagging 'Abortion'

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed

57 reviews

summerskid's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

Some of us like to grieve by uprooting our lives in favor of solitude and wonder. If you relate, this is absolutely your book. One of my all time favorites. Such an honest author on a sad  adventure 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Abortion, and Death of parent

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

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

Minor: Abortion

iriwindel's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Drug use and Infidelity

Minor: Abortion

beccah42's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Cancer and 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, Terminal illness, and Death of parent

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

Minor: Drug use, Infidelity, and Abortion

neliadiedenise's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

pixelited's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Just an absolutely astounding book that I wholly enjoyed cover to cover. Strayed’s writing is incredibly beautiful, eloquent, and entranced me with visions of her journey and life. Despite the descriptions of how hard the PCT is, her experience has only made me want to hike it more.

Truly a fantastic book, I would recommend this to anyone!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Terminal illness, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Addiction, Sexism, and Alcohol

Minor: Abortion

asurasantosha's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Infidelity and Abandonment

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

kleedc73's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Drug use, and Abortion

parasolcrafter's review against another edition

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