![]() But towards the last few chapters, it felt like the same old story. I realize she covered her whole PCT journey, and so the book’s logical ending was, well, the end of the trail. get married, have two kids, and that’s it. But all I found was her going off to work in Oregon, a rushing of what she did later in life, i.e. This isn’t a bad thing, because most people aren’t going to find themselves in 100 days, but I did expect more self-empowerment or more confidence, more something at the end of the book. And she seemed to end it with some direction, but mostly, still seemed just as lost as when she started the trail. She started off the PCT lost and unsure of what to do with herself, her life, relationships. I’m sure that she felt she grew as a person, and that she found herself on those 1100 miles from the Mojave Desert to the Bridge of the Gods, but I didn’t find her new self alongside her. ![]() However, I didn’t find these explored much in the book. And it was these themes that I was excited about. It’s her form of coming-of-age and finding herself. Wild is Cheryl Strayed‘s memoir of hiking the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) on her own after a divorce and her mother’s death. ![]() But on the verge of taking a trip to the Pacific Northwest, I decided to finally read the book, to get into a wilderness mindset. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |