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Loading... Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faithby Anne Lamott
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. "With an exuberant mix of passion, insight, and humor, in Traveling Mercies she takes us on a journey through her often troubled past to illuminate her devout but quirky walk of faith." (from the back cover) (  ) debnance | Jan 29, 2010 |  I love this book and read it several times. Twoghies didn't. What the hell is wrong with these people? Hippy alcoholic drug addicted single-mother finds Jesus - what's not to love? ( ) GAYLEGREY | Jan 13, 2010 | Read this book. Just trust me on this... ( ) jwcooper3 | Nov 15, 2009 | Anne takes us on a journey through her sometimes quirky faith. Whether writing about her family or her dreadlocks, sick children or old friends, the most religious women of her church, or men she has dated, she shows us the myriad ways her faith sustains her and guides her, shining light on the darkest part of ordinary life and exposing surprising pockets of meaning and hope. ( ) marient | May 14, 2009 | A thoroughly enjoyable read, without a lot of proselytizing. The author shares slices of life in a very accessible way, and her wit and humor come through clearly. I look forward to reading more of Anne LaMott's work. jjpet | Apr 2, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0385496095, Paperback)Anne Lamott admits that she's "ever so slightly more anxious than the average hypochondriac." When faced with a small, irregular mole and a family history of skin cancer, however, she remembers her faith in God and enjoys some peace--despite behaving "a little more like Nathan Lane in The Birdcage than I would have hoped." Author Lamott reads these wonderfully detailed postcards from her meandering journey to faith. With sharp and bittersweet humor, she recounts a past full of bad relationships with men, with food, with drugs, with alcohol, and worst of all, with herself. She battles her demons thanks to the love of her friends and family and her "lurch of faith" to embrace religion, that "puzzling thing inside me that had begun to tug on my sleeve from time to time, trying to get my attention." Inspiring but not dogmatic, Traveling Mercies is a treasure. (Running time: 4 hours, 3 cassettes) --C.B. Delaney(retrieved from Amazon Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:20:19 -0500) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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