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 […]
Wild
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 […]
Girl Gone Mildly Wild
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 […]
Go read this book right now.
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 […]
Trust your gut. Forgive yourself. Be grateful.
“We all get stuck in place on occasion. We all move backward sometimes, Every day we must make the decision to move in the direction of our intentions. Forward is the direction of real life.” I read Wild by Cheryl Strayed back in 2012 and it remains an incredibly memorable and moving experience. I love Strayed’s writing. She is thoughtful, empathetic and adept at using poetic language to clearly describe her and other’s experiences. So when I heard that she had a new book of quotations […]
Do yourself a favor and read this book
This book, this book, this book. How do you even begin to talk about something so meaningful and perfect? I gave up religion years ago, but Tiny Beautiful Things is my replacement bible. This book is for everyone. It’s the kind of book you just buy extra copies of in advance so you can give it away when needed and not have to risk lending out your own copy. I’ve been flirting with Strayed’s memoir, Wild, for a while now, but I’m kind of glad […]