I have started Wild by Cheryl Strayed. I was after something serious - something more down to earth - to read. I had heard good things about this book (and the movie) and it seemed to fit the bill. I have read the first chapter, which covers the author's mother's death, and found it very moving. I think that I am in for an emotional ride. Here's the blurb:
At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's rapid death from cancer, her family disbanded and her marriage crumbled. With nothing to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to walk eleven-hundred miles of the west coast of America and to do it alone. She had no experience of long-distance hiking and the journey was nothing more than a line on a map. But it held a promise - a promise of piecing together a life that lay shattered at her feet...
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