As a reader, I was left eagerly anticipating the next installment, and I can't wait for the release of the second book. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Her memories, even the bad ones, are soaked in the love she had for him – the love they had for each other. I’m sure this will be explained in her book but Brianna clearly has a cult following of haters that literally have nothing better to do with their own lives besides try to sabotage hers. Brianna is a very controversial and polarizing figure and I hope that people decide to put that aside and read this from a place of understanding, curiosity and compassion.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Her dogs live the LIFE, her snakes are currently wrapped happily around her wrist, and mice have very short lifespans to begin with. She details people who helped her along the way as “crusty” and puts people’s experiences in a mental institution in an ugly light as if she herself didn’t end up there too. I got this book because I love adventure books, and story book, but o found myself very irritated several times during the book at the main character, she need to get help, and stop pulling people and animals into her broken mess, it was hard listening to how the choices she made all lead to hurting. Nowhere for Very Long is her deeply felt, immaculately told story of exploration-of the world outside and the spirit within.

Living on her land and exploring the desert around her is a beautiful life, and absolutely unconventional and interesting. Brianna comes across as deeply human, as a woman who has accepted herself for her faults, her mistakes, her regrets, and her charms. She made a name for herself on social media with her inspiring captions-cum-essays about bravery, identity, nature, and subverting expectations.

By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. In the end it seems like she bought an expensive piece of land and built a house on it by writing about being non conforming. Madia is completely detached in some of the sections, especially the section concerning Dagwood’s incident. It feels like years ago she found a formula for writing (cliches, really unnecessary alliteration ("the bleached bones beckoned me back to the barren breath of the desert herself" - paraphrased, of course, but honestly not too far off from actual passages), heavy reliance on repetition, starting every other sentence with "perhaps" / "and so" / "after all") and she is clinging on to it for dear life.as someone who has made my own trek from the east coast to Utah and experienced many of these wild places, worked in wilderness therapy, and adopted a desert mutt of my own -- this book put the most beautiful and perfect words to the authors experience that feels like my own. I could picture the tiny squares and fragments of the story that I’ve watched unfold over the years. Nowhere for Very Long is the chronicle of a woman learning and unlearning, from backroads to breakdowns, from married to solo, and finally, from lost to found to lost again…this time, on purpose.

All you pathetic fangirls going through and screeching at people leaving bad reviews do realize that people are ALLOWED not to like Brianna Madia and therefore to leave bad reviews, right? Parts 1 and 2 felt like the quick stories you get when you’re a guest at someone’s house and they force you to sit through their family picture books with stories that really only hold water for them because they experienced it. I never felt like I was given the story she claims she wanted to tell and instead just got snapshots. Brianna makes no effort to pack everything into the neat little boxes and filters that are so often expected when women tell their stories. She talks about her strengths, her will, and her determination to create the kind of life that honors what she loves.Brianna leans into the realities of van life and is frank with her mental health struggles, but it’s written often with a lovely lyrical quality that put you right in the desert with her dogs that make you understand the appeal of solo desert living.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. It’s truly a sad way to view life and I hope she has a therapist who helps her sort that out and reflect on why she can’t appreciate both herself AND others. A woman defined by motion, Brianna Madia bought a beat-up bright orange van, filled it with her two dogs Bucket and Dagwood, and headed into the canyons of Utah with her husband on a journey of discovery. Despite loudly proclaiming herself as a 'strong, capable, and independent' woman, Brianna has not done anything remotely outdoorsy as a single woman (unless you count drinking wine by the river).Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). She made a name for herself on social media with her inspiring captions cum- essays about bravery, identity, nature, and subverting expectations.