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

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CaptainClegg

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PostSubject: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed   Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed Icon_minitimeFri Apr 13, 2012 10:26 am

I'll start things off:

A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again.

At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State—and to do it alone. She had no experience as a long-distance hiker, and the trail was little more than “an idea, vague and outlandish and full of promise.” But it was a promise of piecing back together a life that had come undone.

Strayed faces down rattlesnakes and black bears, intense heat and record snowfalls, and both the beauty and loneliness of the trail. Told with great suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild vividly captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.
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jendickulous




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PostSubject: Re: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed   Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed Icon_minitimeSat Apr 14, 2012 6:23 pm

I think this one sounds pretty interesting.
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KayGeeBee




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Location : Flat Rock, MI

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PostSubject: Interesting   Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed Icon_minitimeMon Apr 16, 2012 11:41 am

I agree with Jen this does sound interesting.

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LaPetiteSirene5

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PostSubject: RE: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed   Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed Icon_minitimeMon Apr 16, 2012 6:14 pm

I'm Down. I don't have fancy reading devices, so let me know if I need to order up a hard copy.
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CaptainClegg

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PostSubject: Re: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed   Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed Icon_minitimeSun Apr 22, 2012 10:13 am

So it looks like this is the book.....The reading period will be for one month. So lets say 5/20. However if you finish early go ahead and start discussing!!. The week following 5/20 we will vote for our next book!
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