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Loading... Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faithby Anne Lamott
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Shut up about your kid! Otherwise ok. (  )damsorrow | Jun 11, 2009 |   That I chose to read this book is a minor miracle, based on the title, as my thoughts on faith and religion are both deeply private and non-negotiable, and I loathe preachiness. As it turns out, Anne Lamott's thoughts on faith and life are so human and so well written, conversational even, that I was hooked after a few pages. I found much common ground in her very real struggles and triumphs. I found her New Age Jesus Freak approach to life interesting, and I appreciate bridging another gap in human understanding. Mostly I appreciate her sharing deeply personal events - addiction, love, loss, friendship and death - that everyone can relate to, but few can describe with such humor and eloquence. I inhaled this book, I laughed and I cried and I immediately bought Travelling Mercies. (  )readaholic12 | Mar 14, 2008 | 1  I almost stopped "reading" it from the beginning because of her Bush bashing, but kept with it. She is a bit too liberal for me, but apart from the foul language, she's a pretty good writer. (  )eliorajoy | Mar 6, 2008 | I was disappointed in this. I don't know why I expected something different, but the religion seemed very Jesus-Freaky to me, and the points were scattered. franoscar | Jan 2, 2008 | Many say this, but I wholeheartedly agree in saying that Ms. Lamott is a breath of fresh air into the conversation of those with the Christian faith. I really appreciate her honest approach of her faith and also her lack of using a language that only makes sense to a certain group of people. Her stories are without need of translation and speak to the core of many different types of people simply because she is quite open with her thought processes. I am quite thankful for her perspective even if we might not see eye to eye on everything (  )jd234512 | Aug 19, 2007 | 1 0.090 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0143057340, Audio CD)Few people can write about faith, parenting, and relationships as can the talented, irreverent Anne Lamott. With characteristic black humor, ("Everyone has been having a hard time with life this year; not with all of it, just the waking hours") she updates us on the ongoing mayhem of her life since Traveling Mercies, and continues to unfold her spiritual journey.Plan B finds Lamott wrestling with mid-life hormones and weight gain while parenting Sam, now a teenager with his own set of raging hormones. Her observations cover everything from starting a Sunday school to grief over the death of her beloved dog, Sadie; lamenting the war to bitterness over her relationship with her now-departed mother. As she tugs and pokes out the knots in a slender gold chain necklace, it becomes a metaphor for letting go and learning to forgive. "…any willingness to let go inevitably comes from pain; and the desire to change changes you, and jiggles the spirit, gets to it somehow, to the deepest, hardest, most ruined parts." Its her willingness to show us the knotted-up, "ruined parts" of her life that make this collection of sometimes uneven essays so compelling. "Everything feels crazy," writes Lamott, adding, "But on small patches of earth all over, I can see just as much messy mercy and grace as ever…." Lamotts essays will serve as reminders to readers of the patches of messy mercy and grace in a chaotic world.--Cindy Crosby (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:10 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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