This One Wild and Precious Life

Not for me. Fat shaming. Too bad, I really like her first book.

This is a hard one to review because I really loved some things about this book, but I felt it was bogged down with Wilson's life experiences. I didn't want a memoir, I wanted a how-to about how to change things in this crazy world. I needed fewer descriptions of hikes and more actual reporting from protests and activism campaigns.
That said, this book is chock-full of references to other works. It's like when you read a fluff piece that actually sends you down a rabbit hole of info that leads to the info you were looking for. A gateway drug of a book, if you will.
Wilson has some strong opinions that I agree with (single-use anything is evil) and some that made me say “WTF?” (ie. Who even shops at thrift stores?) Uhm, me, and almost everyone I know. I DO love her idea that we should follow and bankroll the “prophets” who are already doing the work. And I do love walking/hikes (getting out and walking has kept me sane in 2020). Mostly I found a bunch of people and other articles to read and that makes me happy. And she gives shoutouts to longform journalism (insert heart emoji here), Brain Pickings, and On Being (love that podcast).
Sadly, this probably means she's preaching to the choir, reader-wise (with me, at least).
Maybe her pseudo-celebrity will draw a reader who really doesn't know all of these things in and their lives will be changed? One can hope.
She's famous, right? Not for anything I care about, but okay.