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Y’all…. This one’s gonna be a bit different

There is No Good Card for This; When Life Hits the Fan; TIny Beautiful Things; 180 more Extraordinary Poems for Every Day; the sun and her flowers; The Art of Comforting; Rising Strong; How to Be a Heroine; Raising Human Beings by Kelsey Crowe & Emily McDowell; Janet Fouts; Cheryl Strayed; Billy Collins; Rupi Kaur; Val Walker; Brene Brown, Samantha Ellis; Ross Greene

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  Lemme tell you a not-so-secret-secret about ‘adulthood’: Nobody knows what the f they are doing. So much of being an adult is dealing with sucky situations – all the sudden a lot of your friend’s parents are dying, or your sister-in-law gets cancer (again), or this one has an affair that devastates that one, or your cousin suffers another miscarriage while her sister is expecting twins.  Literally, life just becomes chock full of situations that you are not prepared to face, and suddenly you have no other choice but to face them.  At least, that’s what adulthood has been […]

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11/10/2018 | Post by

The book club-iest of book club books

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

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A while back, my friends and I started a book club. We meet roughly every other month and have for the last say year and a half. Normally it’s just two hours for us to sit down, drink wine, and hang out, and that’s awesome. In the meetings we’ve held so far, only once have we all actually read the book and that was Big Little Lies (side note, that made for a super fun meeting. We talked about the book for a full three hours and my poor boyfriend sat across the room playing video games while we all piled on […]

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6/22/2018 | Post by

What a woman!!!

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

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I am not a huge fan of non fiction, I will read a biography if I am interested in the person, but a biography/memoir is not something I would generally grab from the shelf. However when my book club picked this book, I dutifully went and read it. This is a difficult book for me to rate and review. On one hand, Cheryl is a fascinating and amazing human being. The events she has experienced and her journey on the hike are incredibly interesting. Her ability to discover who she is and who she wants to become as well as […]

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5/21/2018 | Post by

Where you lead, I will follow

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

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I don’t know how I missed reading Wild when it came out five years ago. I certainly remember it coming out, and was aware of its popularity, particularly once it became a Reese Witherspoon vehicle. I saw the movie and enjoyed it, but it wasn’t until moving to the PNW that I felt the inclination to pick it up. This is my first Cannonball review of the year and, it being October now, I’ve given up on the possibility of reaching a full Cannonball. But I have a good reason, I promise! At the end of last year, I happened […]

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10/16/2017 | Post by

We do not have the right to feel helpless.

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed

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This is going to be the hardest and, at the same time, the easiest review I’ve ever written. To put it bluntly, Tiny Beautiful Things must be required reading for anyone who is a human. Full disclosure: when my husband left me, I didn’t talk about it for a long while except with him (it was a mostly one-sided conversation) and a handful of very close confidantes. When I opened up my circle of trust, I found what I should have realized sooner was a very good support system in a handful of friends who had experienced similar ends to […]

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8/23/2017 | Post by

Wild

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

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I had thought about picking up this book after the movie came out. I’m always one who wants to read the book before seeing the movie, and I had heard good things about the movie. However, I never really got around to it, until now. Wild is based in the authors travels on the Pacific Crest Trail. This is a trail that goes from Mexico to Canada. Cheryl hikes a good portion of it, starting in the Mojave desert. What caused Cheryl to want to hike the Pacific Crest Trail? She came upon a guide book about the trail at […]

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1/21/2017 | Post by

Girl Gone Mildly Wild

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

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I’ve been able to avoid Wild for quite some time now, but after the Gilmore Girls revival, one of my book club friends decided that we should read it.    My own personal experiences and Cheryl’s cloud my judgement on whether or not it was a good book.  Strayed lost her mother to cancer in her mid twenties, I lost my dad to a motorcycle accident when I was 23.  Both of us lost our center and while I had a support system (who was also grieving), Strayed didn’t.  Both of us turned to self-destructive behaviors (although, I never went […]

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1/3/2017 | Post by

Go read this book right now.

Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed

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Do you have problems? Any problems? Do you need advice? About anything? Have you ever wished, probably around 2am, that you could sit at a table with a mom (maybe your mom, maybe the imaginary mom you wish you had) who would make you a cup of tea or coffee and sit across from you and call you honeybun and be so nice and believe in you so much but also tell you exactly what you needed to do to get your shit straight? Surely it’s not just me that’s had that thought in the midst of adulting crises. If […]

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