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Loading... Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Yearby Anne Lamott
Entertaining, but I didn’t like it nearly as much as I had hoped. (  ) maureene87 | Apr 4, 2013 |  Hilarious, heartfelt, and foul-mouthed look at parenting. Relatable, with lots of quotable lines. She just blurts out things that most of us parents think in our darkest moments. Which is comforting. BK138 | Mar 23, 2013 | Some great one liners. A memoir for the sleep deprived - it's better appreciated that way. ( ) Sylvie.Fox | Jan 9, 2013 | I loved this book so much. Anne Lamott wrote her account of motherhood in the first year with honesty and humour. I nod my head and think, "Yes, YES, exactly how I felt!" every few pages in. It reminds me of my own son, all his "firsts", all my joy and frustrations and fears and happiness. Anne Lamott's feelings about the death of her father also struck a chord with me. Sometimes I felt like this is the book about my current life in a lot of ways. I want to give this book to all mothers out there! deadgirl | Nov 9, 2012 | A fantastic, brutally honest, poignant account of the author's first year of motherhood. Lamott says the things that many, if not most, of us won't even admit to thinking. Her wit, sense of humor, depth of emotion, and self-awareness flavor every word she writes. As the mother of a child who had a difficult first year, I finished this book feeling relief that I wasn't alone/insane/incapable, that there was at least one other woman out there who understood and had the courage to speak honestly about the hardest and most rewarding job there is. (  ) lhtouchton | Feb 11, 2012 | no reviews | add a review Has the (non-series) sequel
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 044990928X, Paperback)The most honest, wildly enjoyable book written about motherhood is surely Anne Lamott's account of her son Sam's first year. A gifted writer and teacher, Lamott (Crooked Little Heart) is a single mother and ex-alcoholic with a pleasingly warped social circle and a remarkably tolerant religion to lean on. She responds to the changes, exhaustion, and love Sam brings with aplomb or outright insanity. The book rocks from hilarious to unbearably poignant when Sam's burgeoning life is played out against a very close friend's illness. No saccharine paean to becoming a parent, this touches on the rage and befuddlement that dog sweeter emotions during this sea change in one's life.(retrieved from Amazon Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:43:12 -0400) It's not like she's the only woman to ever have a baby. At thirty-five. On her own. But Anne Lamott makes it all fresh in her now-classic account of how she and her son and numerous friends and neighbors and some strangers survived and thrived in that all important first year. From finding out that her baby is a boy (and getting used to the idea) to finding out that her best friend and greatest supporter Pam will die of cancer (and not getting used to that idea), with a generous amount of wit and faith (but very little piousness), Lamott narrates the great and small events that make up a woman's life. -- from publisher.… (more) |
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