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Wild

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Okay people, stop what you're doing and read this book right now. RIGHT NOW. Remember how I've mentioned that if a book is being adapted to a movie I have this condition where I have to read the book? Well I heard that this movie called Wild is coming out in December starring Reese Witherspoon (omg love her) and it's based off a memoir. So naturally, I had to read it. I was kind of nervous to read this book. It's the first nonfiction that I've read in a long time. I spent the past four months rereading Harry Potter and before that I read The Giver and before that I read some Khaled Hosseini and before that... you get the idea. So as I was saying, I was nervous to pick up a nonfiction book again. I thought it might bore me or be too dry. Which, I know, is totally stupid.  But thankfully, I had nothing to worry about. This book is awesome. Cheryl retells her journey hiking the Pacific Crest Trail for three months. She encounters bears, learns ...