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Cargando... Almost Anywhere: Road Trip Ruminations on Love, Nature, National Parks, and Nonsensepor Krista Schlyer
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. After the early death of her partner, Krista and her friend Bill set off on a year long road trip visiting many national parks. This book is equal parts travelogue and personal memoir. The interactions between Krista, Bill, and her dog Maggie are often funny and relatable, and the pages are peppered with funny footnotes. It also contains plenty of insight on life and loss, without ever trying too hard to seem meaningful. ( ) This is the best memoir I have ever read. Most memoirs/autobiographies, understandably, have a "this is all about me!" feel to them, but I never felt that about this book. Schlyer is simply a guide to her experiences on the road, switching beautifully from funny to profound to informative. Grief is difficult to write about, but Schlyer rocks it. I feel like I took this journey with her, from the crushing weight of losing someone you love to realizing that, yes, grief is huge, but life is bigger. This isn't so much a book about adventures as a portrayal of life, and finding a way to live it. And Schlyer does it in an intelligent but humble way. And of course you can't have great literature without great characters. It's impossible not to love Krista, Daniel, Bill, and Maggie. The book does get a bit environmentalist at the end, but that's just a small complaint about a book I really, really loved. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
What do you do when your world ends? At twenty-eight years old, Krista Schlyer sold almost everything she owned and packed the rest of it in a station wagon bound for the American wild. Her two best friends joined her--one a grumpy, grieving introvert, the other a feisty dog--and together they sought out every national park, historic site, forest, and wilderness they could get to before their money ran out or their minds gave in. The journey began as a desperate escape from urban isolation, heartbreak, and despair, but became an adventure beyond imagining. Chronicling their colorful escapade, Almost Anywhere explores the courage, cowardice, and heroics that live in all of us, as well as the life of nature and the nature of life. This eloquent and accessible memoir is at once an immersion in the pain of losing someone particularly close and especially young and a healing journey of a broken life given over to the whimsy and humor of living on the road. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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