WILD (Cheryl Strayed) - September 4/14

I'm conflicted about this one. There were a lot of stretches here I really enjoyed, but there were probably more that I found tedious and padded-out. The book feels about twice as long as it probably should be, and I was never quite able to keep track of the various folks Cheryl met on the trail. But there are a few surprisingly engrossing sequences here, including Cheryl's encounter with two dangerous rednecks. But in the end, Wild is just too long for its own good. ** out of ****