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eamcmahon3's review against another edition
5.0
This book was PERFECTION! It feels like Brett R wrote this book (shoutout to you, Brett). This book was beautifully written, insightful, historical, and poignant. I would highly recommend it.
Just a few of my favorite quotes include:
"I knew well that I was drawing on a privilege both of attitude and appearance and how seamlessly the one buttresses the other. Pushing open certain doors is infinitely easier when you inhabit one body and not another. Being white and male undoubtedly smooths the path and reduces the risks along the way."
"Being an Anywhere Person also makes you more at home anywhere."
"I think the long-distance walker taps some primordial urge within us to respond to the pilgrim, to urge him on, to hope a little of whatever it is that he or she might be seeking will rub off on us."
"... because belonging, as a skill you nurture, is incubated best in solitude. The reality you encounter as you move from place to place is not a given upon arrival. It is not a fixed thing. It contains elastic qualities that you do a lot to shape as you go. You form a space as you enter it. Just as you do a conversation."
"You bring meaning with you when you go looking for meaning. And the more of it you bring, the more you get in return. What you find is often fragmentary and slippery. Our histories personal, tribal, national, are mosaics of broken pieces and shards of tile and stone. They contain within them, perhaps in equal measure, order and disorder, reason and randomness."
Just a few of my favorite quotes include:
"I knew well that I was drawing on a privilege both of attitude and appearance and how seamlessly the one buttresses the other. Pushing open certain doors is infinitely easier when you inhabit one body and not another. Being white and male undoubtedly smooths the path and reduces the risks along the way."
"Being an Anywhere Person also makes you more at home anywhere."
"I think the long-distance walker taps some primordial urge within us to respond to the pilgrim, to urge him on, to hope a little of whatever it is that he or she might be seeking will rub off on us."
"... because belonging, as a skill you nurture, is incubated best in solitude. The reality you encounter as you move from place to place is not a given upon arrival. It is not a fixed thing. It contains elastic qualities that you do a lot to shape as you go. You form a space as you enter it. Just as you do a conversation."
"You bring meaning with you when you go looking for meaning. And the more of it you bring, the more you get in return. What you find is often fragmentary and slippery. Our histories personal, tribal, national, are mosaics of broken pieces and shards of tile and stone. They contain within them, perhaps in equal measure, order and disorder, reason and randomness."
rosietomyn's review against another edition
adventurous
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
5.0
birdybirdbrain's review against another edition
2.0
I don’t know if I was the target audience for this. I appreciate the sentiments of Chaucer and Thoreau but this was a lot of pretty, relatable words saying life is more rewarding when you have free time and aren’t working.
cubadianmom3's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
mary_elizabeth's review against another edition
adventurous
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
ashhulksmash's review against another edition
5.0
I've been trying to write a review on this for a few days, but goodreads just wouldn't let it go through so instead of a "ramble," here's my short thought on it:
I enjoyed this book, and would love nothing more than to have Neil's confidence that things will just work out. "Cross country walk with little to no training? I'm sure it will be fine." Some of the anecdotes moved me, others just made me want to physically move.
I enjoyed this book, and would love nothing more than to have Neil's confidence that things will just work out. "Cross country walk with little to no training? I'm sure it will be fine." Some of the anecdotes moved me, others just made me want to physically move.
ev2015's review
The beginnings was extremely interesting and entertaining but the book began to drag on and on around the 40% mark