Great camini thru hike tale - needs trigger warnin

I loved this story of a fellow pilgrim's trek. Was left feeling jarred and sick with unexpected historical rape story out of nowhere in the middle. An undoubtedly important part of Lockharts personal story but was it was triggering when it unexpectedly derailed my tranquil story time, my time for being in my 'happy space' and getting in right mindset for work / sleep etc. perhaps a mention of this in book description.

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wonderful

have listened to this several times ,love the honesty and the journey .and the voice is perfect .
still deciding on which route to take for my first Camino .

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This was not really a story about the Camino

This was not a story about the Camino

As with many books about the Camino Way, its about the person walking and what they feel rather than the walk, and the facts about the walk. C W Lockhart managed to take this to another level, this was not about self discovery, this was about self pity, mixed with a chance to tell her life story. The woman comes across as a hypochondriac, the illness she suffers from and all the different traits of feeling ill. The pain of the walk, the pain of the cycle ride the pain of this.
What really hit me through this, is just about every person she became friends with runs away from her. And yet at no point does she examine this or really cover it. there is a part when a friend moves on, I had to revisit that chapter to try discover what happened, and there was nothing. This happened twice more.

She comes across to me as someone you really do not want to meet on the Camino. Shes often describes herself as a Camino Mama. i will leave you to read what her won sons might think of that.

There is a plus side, i could not stop reading, I really do not know why

I liked the way she took to Spanish food, to the Spanish people, and the fact she was prepared to mix with the culture.

However she starts the walk as a true peregrina and by the end you are sick of that word, then she gets to the point where in my opinion she loses the purpose of the walk. (I will not spoil the story)

This is the only book on the subject where there has been an issue with bed bugs, lucky our heroine is prepared, as she is for most things except the fact that she is going to walk.

There is one part of the book, where she describes an American mother and daughter, it is just like the scene from a book of an american daughter and mother in another book on the Camino Way, at this point I started to doubt half of this book s true.
The characters and the story, start to sound like a story. Not a book about one woman walk along the way.

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