Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

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

60 reviews

jenniesreadingjourney's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Grief, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Addiction, Cancer, Cursing, Gore, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Stalking, Abortion, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

nutmegsweb's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cancer, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Abortion

Minor: Gun violence and Suicide

elg1105's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Self harm, Sexual content, Abortion, and Alcohol

bookwormcat's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Cancer, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Blood, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Physical abuse, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

emmak2012's review

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: Animal death, Cancer, and Death of parent

idesofmarch's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

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

Moderate: Animal death, Abortion, and Abandonment

laura_nel13's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

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

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

orchidd's review

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

beccah42's review

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