. I decided to join the thousands (millions??) of other people who are reading this selection.There are several resources that are offered to interact with other readers and discussion groups.
You can sign-up for Oprah's Book Club 2.0 on Oprah's web site. You can access Oprah's personal notes, the author's scrapbook, photos and discussion groups from this page.
You can use the hashtag #oprahsbookclub to connect with other readers on Twitter.
You can also join the Oprah's Book Club 2.0 Community on Facebook.
You can watch a video that features Cheryl Strayed talking about her book at Wild Webisodes: Week 1.
What Is This Book About?
"At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State and to do it alone. She had no experience as a long-distance hiker, and the trail was little more than an idea, vague and outlandish and full of promise. But it was a promise of piecing back together a life that had come undone."Getting Started
I purchased the digital copy of this book last night. The digital copy is expensive ($12.99) but the book club edition includes Oprah’s personal notes highlighted within the text and a reading group guide.
I read the first chapter this morning and I am hooked. In the first chapter of the book, Cheryl tells about her childhood and the death of her mother. She expresses the deep grief that she felt when her mother died of lung cancer at a young age.
Will You Join Me?
Please share your thoughts in the Comments Section below. I will be blogging about this book over the next several weeks.
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