A great story of a woman's strength after she hits bottom and decides that walking the Pacific Crest Trail alone will help her to put her life back together.

I had trouble putting this one down. Characters were well developed and true to life.

The Polio Journals is an honest, first-hand account of a family's insistent denial of the impact polio had on all their lives. It also offers insight into societal attitudes of the time, well before the disabilities rights movement began. This book will open the eyes of many people about the struggles (both physical and psychological) of those with disabilities, and encourage people to acknowledge rather than minimize those struggles. In this fascinating memoir author Anne Gross has clearly shown the harm that can result when we do otherwise. The book follows the author's journey from anger and shame to eventual understanding and forgiveness.

The premise seems a little bizarre, but this is a very insightful book and a fun read. A man takes off on a walk to visit an old friend who is dying of cancer. Along the way he examines his life in terms of his relationships with his son, his wife, and his friend, eventually coming to terms with ghosts that had haunted him for years.

This is a very funny book at times, but ultimately seemed too frivolous to make it a worthwhile read. The scenarios were too bizarre and unrealistic for me. Also the literary devices used in writing the book resulted in it being very confusing to follow the story.

Although some parts were interesting, this book was very confusing in parts, I assume to give the reader a sense of the inner mind of someone with mental illness. In the end, it was just too depressing. The message seemed to be that, not only is a person with mental illness doomed to a miserable, hopeless life, but he drags his entire family into the abyss.