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Salt Path: A Memoir | Raynor Winn

I enjoyed both, but now l'm not sure what to think...
#walking
#falling
@eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Tamra Unsettling, for sure. 3d

Seabreeze_Reader Is that Jason Isaacs on the front cover? If so, I totally didn't recognize him. 2d

Eggs Love the leaf plate 🍽️ 🌿 2d

Teresereading @Seabreeze_Reader I think that‘s him 2d

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Eggs

Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail | Ben Montgomery

“I would never have started this trip if I had known how tough it was, but I couldn't and wouldn't quit.”
GG

Emma Gatewood was the first woman to hike the entire Appalachian Trail alone, as well as the first person to walk it twice and she did it all after the age of 65.

#WalkingHiking

#Falling

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Wow! 🤩 6d

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mariaku21

Happiness for Beginners | Katherine Center

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I am so saddened that I finished this because it was so much fun.

I loved Helen right from the opening chapter. There's so much realness to her. She's smart, opinionated, fierce, passionate and full of try. She's just trying her best. She's a year divorced & is trying to pull herself together & is ready to start with a wilderness survival course that ends up being nothing like she expected but an opening to somethings that she needed.
#25in2025

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DHill

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail | Cheryl Strayed

This book resonated with me in a way I wasn‘t prepared for. What a journey.

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JenReadsAlot

Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail | Ben Montgomery

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I enjoyed this overall.

5feet.of.fury A very interesting story 2w

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A Walk in the Woods | Bill Bryson

I read six books in August. Three physical books and three audiobooks. August was a month of unique reads but I enjoyed most of them. I‘ll consider that a success.

Full wrap up: https://wildwoodreads.com/2025/09/02/august-2025-wrap-up/

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Lost in the Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Adventure and Survival | Yossi Ghinsberg

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Israeli Yossi, American Kevin, and Swiss Marcus are mochileros (backpackers) in Bolivia who decide they want to see a real jungle and Indian village. They hire a man, Karl, to guide them through the forest. As the title makes obvious, everything goes terribly wrong. These mochileros have no idea that their enthusiasm isn‘t enough to get them out alive. It is gruesome and harrowing. Yossi lives to write the book—so there‘s that. Yossi spends ⬇️

Texreader what feels like an eternity getting to the hike, especially the relationship between them. But he continues that level of detail throughout, and it seems he wants to do right by the men who started the journey with him to acknowledge what each man went through. Whatever you do, don‘t listen to the audiobook. The narrator doesn‘t sound human (I confirmed it‘s not AI). He over-enunciates (annoying!) and provides almost no emotions. I quit ⬇️ 1mo

Texreader the audiobook and checked out the ebook. So glad I did. I recommend it but beware, this is sheer survival mode. If ever one could have almost every bad thing happen, it happened to Yossi. I hope to see the movie Jungle with Daniel Radcliffe now, but I hope it is not so gruesome. #Bolivia #foodandlit @Catsandbooks 1mo

LiseWorks I saw the movie, it was good. 1mo

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lil1inblue

The Salt Path | Raynor Winn

I've read a fair number of articles about this controversy, but this is the first one that addresses the ableism of it all. It's worth the read.

https://lithub.com/nature-is-not-going-to-cure-you-on-raynor-winns-fabricated-me...

shortsarahrose Thanks for sharing this article! I have not read The Salt Path or heard about the controversy, but I am always down to read a solid critique of ableist discourse. I might have to read some of Polly Atkin‘s own work now. 1mo

IriDas Thanks. I will enjoy this thoroughly. I‘ve been trying to tell people this when I was in academia and they would just throw supposed research that proves their point, while never questioning what sorts of people were included and excluded in the research. Now we‘ve got some sh*t head (RFK,jr) saying we need to send our autistic children to “camps” and “farms” to cure them. 1mo

lil1inblue @shortsarahrose You're most welcome! I added 2 of Polly Atkin's books to my TBR after reading the article. I really appreciated this perspective. 1mo

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lil1inblue @IriDas 🙌 🙌 🙌 1mo

ChaoticMissAdventures Thank you! I was reading an article about their lies that started with why they actually lost their house and I realized "Moth" was still making appearances and how unbelievable that would be. I had not realized until then how long ago they started pulling this scam. 1mo

squirrelbrain When the news first broke in the UK there were stories of people with the same condition that Moth supposedly had, who had been given hope by reading his story - so sad. 😞 1mo

Suet624 Great article. Thank you for sharing it with us. 1mo

Kitta @IriDas I work as a scientist and we spend years learning how to properly read and understand research papers - the content but also who is writing, who was studied, the conflicts of interest! It‘s so important and not something others are trained to do. I‘m not saying they shouldn‘t read the papers but they need to understand research in context. It frustrates me when I see people citing that awful Wakefield paper about vaccines & autism. 😡 1mo

Kitta The more I read about this book the more angry I get. 1mo

Deblovestoread Thanks for this. I was interested in the book until seeing the controversy. Now interested in supporting Polly Atkin instead. 💙 1mo

IriDas @Kitta university was where I realized that far too many of my profs, including a physicist with a PhD, didn‘t take that lesson seriously enough. 1mo

Kitta @IriDas 😢 that sucks. It‘s so necessary. 1mo

BookNAround I‘ve been trying to ignore this news because I have this book on my tbr shelves (I bought it when it first came out) and I hate to not read something I spent money on. Argh!!! 1mo

lil1inblue @squirrelbrain Ugh. That's so sad. 1mo

lil1inblue @Deblovestoread Same! 💓 1mo

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ChaoticMissAdventures

The Salt Path | Raynor Winn

An article I just found from last month.
I think this brings up an interesting topic.
Honestly in Nonfiction
How much do you expect to be truthful in a personal book

What could (should?) happen when it is revealed an author is being disingenuous?

I found this article led me to be disappointed in Winn. Talking to my partner last night, landed on I will read a book by a scammer, as long as I don't feel like they are scamming the reader (me).

ChaoticMissAdventures Article is free with an email address: https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/the-real-salt-path-how-the-couple-b... 1mo

Cuilin Yeah, this is so disappointing. My husband and I both read the book and we wanted to see the movie. Not sure we will now. 1mo

ChaoticMissAdventures @Cuilin disappointed, yes! The author of this article says "fact and fable are often jumbled up to some degree". I don't know about all that. I think I am in the camp of Winns deception is more evidence of her bad character and I don't like that. I like that the article related this to James Fry, he popped into my mind as soon as I heard she wasn't telling the "whole truth" 1mo

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squirrelbrain There are several more articles after this one, also in The Guardian / Observer, with other people alleging deceit or elaborations of the truth. 1mo

Kitta I remember someone else posting an article about this a little while ago! It reminded me in a way of the drama surrounding

A Million Little Pieces

1mo

ChaoticMissAdventures @squirrelbrain I definitely know I am late to this party. It brings up so many questions for me about expectations around nonfiction and what do I expect from them and myself. 1mo

ChaoticMissAdventures @Kitta yes! I was telling my partner about how it reminded me of Fry. And I don't like it. 1mo

Kitta @ChaoticMissAdventures yeah, I did enjoy reading Fry‘s memoir but was really disappointed that it wasn‘t entirely true. I haven‘t read the Salt Path and probably won‘t now. If they had said it was loosely based on the truth it would have been fine! But I‘m not happy they weren‘t honest about it. 1mo

squirrelbrain Oh, I wasn‘t meaning that Shawna, that you were late to the party. I was a little unsure after the first article (mainly why had they taken so long to come forward) but the further articles only added to it. 1mo

ChaoticMissAdventures @squirrelbrain definitely do not want to go off one article! I feel like I can never keep up with book news. And this is the sort of stuff that would affect my reading. Why now is a great question. I am annoyed they waited so long to come out with their story (not victim blaming, just they could have done this so much earlier) 1mo

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