When I picked up this book as the April selection for my local library book club, I was puzzled. “Why are we reading a book about white dudes walking the Appalachian Trail, written in the 90s?” I still don’t have an answer to that question. I mostly find it entertaining because, as has been common in my experience, my local library book club is entirely populated with women, and white women at that, so we are an interesting audience for Bryson’s exercising in navel gazing […]
Who would have thought?
I went to school with Ben Montgomery. We weren’t friends as he was popular and I was a punk rock snob. Through the power of social media, we’ve become friendly almost 20 years later. He’s also become quite the writer, and I would have never have guessed he had it in him. Just like I imagine people would have never guessed a 67-year-old woman could hike 2000+ miles with barely more than the clothes on her back.