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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I didn't finish this book. I only listened for a little bit and I think that later in life I may really benefit from this book, but for right now it's just not what I need. I'm the wrong age to appreciate her words and shared feelings in her book.  cherryblossommj | Dec 14, 2009 |  I didn't finish this book. I only listened for a little bit and I think that later in life I may really benefit from this book, but for right now it's just not what I need. I'm the wrong age to appreciate her words and shared feelings in her book. cherryblossommj | Dec 14, 2009 | I turn to LaMott's non-fiction works when I forget how to breathe. It's calming to laugh and relate to so much of what she writes; gut level wisdom and honesty about the craziness all around. Bird by Bird is still the best. This volume is a collection of essays written for Salon.com and deals, to a large extent, with the raising (re: coping) of her teenage son. (  ) jwcooper3 | Nov 15, 2009 | I like Anne Lamott's honesty and her recognition that life isn't all peaches and cream or a linear path of progress for those who are walking the Christian path. Though we haven't shared the same addictions and I cringe at every "f" word, I also feel a kinship to her as another seeker and lover of Jesus. ( ) cee2 | Sep 21, 2009 | This book, the second book by this author that I have read, is a book of essays. They are great! She talks about a variety of topics, but her son Sam pops up in many of them, and her abiding faith is prominent throughout. I find LaMott's writing to provide very pleasant interludes. It's the kind of writing that can be picked up at different times and does not need to be read straight through. She makes me laugh, and she tells it like it is. I enjoys the lessons of life that come shining through her work. ( ) SqueakyChu | Aug 31, 2009 |  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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