Here's another book that received a lot of acclaim when it came out, so I perversely avoided it for some time. Then I read it.
It's a nonfiction account of Strayed, who inexplicably became obsessed with hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. A 20-something, Strayed was living up to her name: promiscuous, no career, drug addiction. She decided to hike the trail for three months, with no knowledge of the wilderness beyond a book.
Strayed's writing style is very clean and concise but not boring -- anything but. I burned through this book, fascinated with the adventure and this very, very flawed heroine.
I highly recommend this book.
