Reviews tagging Infidelity

Wild, by Cheryl Strayed

16 reviews

questingnotcoasting's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death of parent, Death, Grief, and Infidelity

Moderate: Blood, Gore, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Misogyny and Sexism

tabear's review

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Medical content, Terminal illness, Addiction, Infidelity, Blood, Cancer, Cursing, and Death of parent

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Sexism

jesstele's review

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/injury detail, Abandonment, Abortion, Addiction, Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Infidelity, and Vomit

kb33's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity and Animal death

Moderate: Drug abuse, Abortion, and Death of parent

lesliesorensen's review

adventurous emotional inspiring fast-paced

5.0

Thoroughly enjoyed. Her writing was a breeze to read, but the narrative style was complex and wonderful. I almost feel as if I've made this monumental journey with her, which is saying a lot considering how sedentary I am.

After adding the content warnings, I would like to say that ...

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the part at the beginning about her mother's death from cancer was VERY emotional, like I wept -- but it was doable, and important to the rest of the narrative... But I truly wish I had never read the part about her mother's horse. If you are at all upset by animal death, absolutely skip that section -- as soon as she starts talking about going home in the winter and seeing how old & frail her mother's horse was. Skip it.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Infidelity and Drug use

Minor: Abortion, Alcohol, and Injury/injury detail

shannonigans322's review

adventurous emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

This one has been on my list for a while (thanks, Mom!) and it turned out to be quite an enjoyable memoir. I am always a fan of an adventure story (ironic, I know, given my self-proclaimed "indoor cat" status). I also appreciated how willing Strayed was to declare her own foolishness and inexperience. I'm looking forward to checking out the movie adaptation.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use and Infidelity

horizonous's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful reflective

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Cancer, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, and Grief

Moderate: Child abuse and Infidelity

Minor: Abortion, Blood, Child death, and Pregnancy

◦ Body horror = Toenail injuries
◦ Drug abuse = Heroin

mandaraffe's review

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/injury detail, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Violence, Medical content, Terminal illness, Death, Death of parent, Animal death, Blood, and Cancer

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Addiction, Drug use, Infidelity, and Drug abuse

Minor: Abortion, Body shaming, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

ainereads's review

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Abortion, Animal death, Cancer, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Sexual harassment, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Injury/injury detail

molly_hn's review

emotional inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

5.0

A perfectly imperfect metaphor for therapy; for therapeutic process and for human striving. The metaphors present will simultaneously haunt and inspire. I found this book in a YMCA charity shop and there is something serendipitous about that given the origins of the PCT. I've kept the book on my shelf for many years and have only just picked it up to read. Everything fell in to place... but a sort of slow falling. At first, the pace felt a little off with flashback that seemed to hold little relevance to the present happenings BUT the magic is in how these sequences actually resemble something true to human experiencing and human defence against experience: we do process in this way and it comes into place with greater and wider meaning in time. Meaning reveals itself slowly and is an ever shifting beast. I am not a hiker. I like nature in that all too millennial way-I know it exists beyond my walls; I know it benefits me; I bring it inside the walls in the form of houseplants... but I rarely have to time to be in and with it. That was not a barrier to appreciating the power and depths of this book. I wouldn't say the book is life-changing but it speaks to a process I feel is little represented in such a-true-to-individuation way. Favourite quote, which lacks meaning without context but perhaps you can insert your own

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: 'I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out when actually what I had wanted to find was a way in. I was there now. Or close.' (p.290)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Grief, Infidelity, and Sexual content

Fairly graphic descriptions of the wounds from hiking (squeamish). Takes an unflinching look at trauma, specifically processing post-trauma.

Spoiler

Graphic depiction of death of an animal which does become material that is processed by the protagonist but is, regardless, a difficult scene to read